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Michelle Weese

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Her actions seem to be shake it up, destroy morale, ignore emails, promote yes people way above their abilities. Then in a few months when everyone is broken because of micro micro management she leaves.
 












Cheryl Baker said:
Vas is too busy sponsoring Eurovision.to care what vacuum brain is doing.
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Once the money starts drying up, these people will cannibalize one another. All of this needs to be planned and orchestrated perfectly. It's going to get worse before it gets better. People want to see some type of immediate results. Bye Bye advertising. How much happier will you be without seeing those awful commercials? Sales reps will be cannibalized first, once the results don't come in. Speaking of money... Not many, but plenty, have sacrificed more than me. My money is low. Unless, you want to cannibalize me. Then, all of this has been a big fuck you to everyone. You are not that smart.
 






She will hire people, then fire them, make them reapply for their jobs and then when they’re in the job micro manage them to the point of despair. Vas has already seen this thread as it’s been posted to him in a letter.
 


















She's probably is rehiring the people she brought to BMS, but who failed there because, like Michelle, they were in over their heads. A guilty conscience often enables poor decisions. Also, she doesn't want to put in the work to find the best person available, and can't/won't consider that the best person for the job may already be at Novartis.
 












anonymous said:
Don't expect Vas to ride to the rescue as he's the idiot who hired her.
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Same thing happened at BMS. Rather than admit he made a horrible decision when he hired Michelle, Giovanni, former BMS CEO, directed his leadership team to help her succeed. Clearly, she didn't win that team's respect because the minute Giovanni announced he was retiring and Chris Boehner was his successor, Michelle had to have known her days at BMS were numbered. It's shocking that she was given another, high-profile role. It's not shocking that the team at Norvartis is now in shambles. What's that saying about the definition of insanity? It's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
 












anonymous said:
Same thing happened at BMS. Rather than admit he made a horrible decision when he hired Michelle, Giovanni, former BMS CEO, directed his leadership team to help her succeed. Clearly, she didn't win that team's respect because the minute Giovanni announced he was retiring and Chris Boehner was his successor, Michelle had to have known her days at BMS were numbered. It's shocking that she was given another, high-profile role. It's not shocking that the team at Norvartis is now in shambles. What's that saying about the definition of insanity? It's doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.
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the same Giovanni who will be the next chairman of Novartis
 






























Around 80 comms, public affairs, patient engagement, media relations, digital, contractors will have gone by the year end. But she won’t stop there. No! Public affairs have to reapply for their jobs and next the countries will have to do the same. It will be into the hundreds gone. Not to mention the people who just couldn’t wait to be told they have a job or not who’ve gone elsewhere. This process is cruel in the extreme.
 






anonymous said:
Around 80 comms, public affairs, patient engagement, media relations, digital, contractors will have gone by the year end. But she won’t stop there. No! Public affairs have to reapply for their jobs and next the countries will have to do the same. It will be into the hundreds gone. Not to mention the people who just couldn’t wait to be told they have a job or not who’ve gone elsewhere. This process is cruel in the extreme.
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to be replaced by BMS rejects
 






anonymous said:
Around 80 comms, public affairs, patient engagement, media relations, digital, contractors will have gone by the year end. But she won’t stop there. No! Public affairs have to reapply for their jobs and next the countries will have to do the same. It will be into the hundreds gone. Not to mention the people who just couldn’t wait to be told they have a job or not who’ve gone elsewhere. This process is cruel in the extreme.
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Same at BMS. She was a nightmare. She did not engage other departments the process, which was remarkably disorganized and badly executed. Her HR person was inept. Michelle made last-minute changes to teams and structures and didn't tell people who were directly impacted. Some of us learned our jobs were changing in a zoom town hall meeting. It was remarkably unprofessional and lacked empathy and compassion. What followed was anger and disgust over what Michelle and her 'leadership' team did and how poorly they treated people who were good at their jobs and loved working at BMS. Like those at Novartis, we are victims of Michelle's lack of pharma experience, her bad decisions, and her poor leadership skills. It was shocking when we learned she landed at Novartis. I hoped, for the sake of Novartis comms and corporate affairs employees, that she would have learned something from her BMS experience and do better. But after reading this board, it's obvious she did not learn anything, is making the same bad moves, demonstrating the same bad judgement, and getting the same bad results. Why is anyone surprised?
 












Novartis communications, public affairs and patient engagement will NEVER recover from this disastrous awful cruel process. These are highly educated professionals with deep knowledge of their subject matter. The reason why the Swiss press don't like Vas is because he doesn't speak the language and treats them like second class citizens. The Swiss journalists are hugely intelligent and thorough and he doesn't like them asking questions.
 






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