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Based on what I am seeing from SSF, we are having a social experiment that is similar to a cult-like suicide in progress. They are not even planning their own funeral because they want to be agile. None of the senior leaders I talked to really knows what is going to happen. It is like a collective confusion party. I have never witnessed so much craziness in my 16 years here. We are like zombies waiting for the doomsday to arrive. But we are asked to be agile so that we look like we are excited about this new way of working. Frankly I cannot explain what that means if my life is depending on it. Come drink the Kool Aid and then we will figure out if this is poisonous. If we die, let someone clean up our corpses. The top thinks we are innovative but we are just implementing a failed beta test that other companies have given up on years ago. I have to laugh when I hear that our customers will be happy with our new model. They cannot care less. I spent a few years in the field before coming in and I think the oncologists wouldn't give a sh_t. Our senior leadership will be gone in 2 years when this boat begins to sink. Someone has to take the blame for this epic failure in the making. Mass exodus of great marketers, ops, sales people and DMs will leave this shipwreck. The company will be stuck with a bunch of "success story" tellers and ppt generators. This is the last chapter of Genentech. I wish I had a package like the sales folks. Good luck to you all!
 






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Based on what I am seeing from SSF, we are having a social experiment that is similar to a cult-like suicide in progress. They are not even planning their own funeral because they want to be agile. None of the senior leaders I talked to really knows what is going to happen. It is like a collective confusion party. I have never witnessed so much craziness in my 16 years here. We are like zombies waiting for the doomsday to arrive. But we are asked to be agile so that we look like we are excited about this new way of working. Frankly I cannot explain what that means if my life is depending on it. Come drink the Kool Aid and then we will figure out if this is poisonous. If we die, let someone clean up our corpses. The top thinks we are innovative but we are just implementing a failed beta test that other companies have given up on years ago. I have to laugh when I hear that our customers will be happy with our new model. They cannot care less. I spent a few years in the field before coming in and I think the oncologists wouldn't give a sh_t. Our senior leadership will be gone in 2 years when this boat begins to sink. Someone has to take the blame for this epic failure in the making. Mass exodus of great marketers, ops, sales people and DMs will leave this shipwreck. The company will be stuck with a bunch of "success story" tellers and ppt generators. This is the last chapter of Genentech. I wish I had a package like the sales folks. Good luck to you all!
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OMG. Love, the Jim Jone’s analogy. Brilliant! LOL
 












It’s beginning to look like.....SEARS. I know the naysayers will say neigh, oops, I meant nay. I wanted to see, if you caught that you attention horse. Anyhoo, SEARS a once mighty Titan in the retail industry by, get this, by distributing mail order catalog, in which, they failed to transfer that to retail online, such as, Walmart whom made that transition very easily. I’m sure historians one day will point to what went wrong with Genentech. Some say the cliched phrase that History repeats itself. I find that it does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme....just a food for thought.
 






anonymous said:
It’s beginning to look like.....SEARS. I know the naysayers will say neigh, oops, I meant nay. I wanted to see, if you caught that you attention horse. Anyhoo, SEARS a once mighty Titan in the retail industry by, get this, by distributing mail order catalog, in which, they failed to transfer that to retail online, such as, Walmart whom made that transition very easily. I’m sure historians one day will point to what went wrong with Genentech. Some say the cliched phrase that History repeats itself. I find that it does not repeat itself, but it does often rhyme....just a food for thought.
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I think in a few years the business schools will use "Genentech" as a catchphrase for CEOs who ruin their great companies in an epic fashion. Hey, don't pull a "genentech" on us! LOL
 


















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Based on what I am seeing from SSF, we are having a social experiment that is similar to a cult-like suicide in progress. They are not even planning their own funeral because they want to be agile. None of the senior leaders I talked to really knows what is going to happen. It is like a collective confusion party. I have never witnessed so much craziness in my 16 years here. We are like zombies waiting for the doomsday to arrive. But we are asked to be agile so that we look like we are excited about this new way of working. Frankly I cannot explain what that means if my life is depending on it. Come drink the Kool Aid and then we will figure out if this is poisonous. If we die, let someone clean up our corpses. The top thinks we are innovative but we are just implementing a failed beta test that other companies have given up on years ago. I have to laugh when I hear that our customers will be happy with our new model. They cannot care less. I spent a few years in the field before coming in and I think the oncologists wouldn't give a sh_t. Our senior leadership will be gone in 2 years when this boat begins to sink. Someone has to take the blame for this epic failure in the making. Mass exodus of great marketers, ops, sales people and DMs will leave this shipwreck. The company will be stuck with a bunch of "success story" tellers and ppt generators. This is the last chapter of Genentech. I wish I had a package like the sales folks. Good luck to you all!
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I think you people are getting it all wrong. Billy boy is brilliant. He is getting rid of you expensive dead weight all at once. In a few years when the new drugs hit the market, he will hire a bunch of college dropouts for a deep discount. Those 25 year-old losers will be happy to have a Kia as a company car. $80K a year for bringing Starbucks to the offices is an awesome job. It will be enough to get themselves out of their parents' basement. He is already building an Amazon channel for the customers to buy & bill. He is a genius! As for you marketers, be nice to your vendors and red badgers. You will be working for them soon. This is what CEoF all about!
 






anonymous said:
I think you people are getting it all wrong. Billy boy is brilliant. He is getting rid of you expensive dead weight all at once. In a few years when the new drugs hit the market, he will hire a bunch of college dropouts for a deep discount. Those 25 year-old losers will be happy to have a Kia as a company car. $80K a year for bringing Starbucks to the offices is an awesome job. It will be enough to get themselves out of their parents' basement. He is already building an Amazon channel for the customers to buy & bill. He is a genius! As for you marketers, be nice to your vendors and red badgers. You will be working for them soon. This is what CEoF all about!
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I do agree that major cuts are needed, but there are mix messages that Roche/Genentech is sending out that are quite confusing. I mean, earlier this year in the Gene news feed, that Top Management are wanting to double the space in SSF. Oh my, how strange. How can this be so? They refer to their headquarters as ‘campus’ but there is no curriculum. In fact, there’s no learning institution in Genentech. If that were the case. Genentech employees would be sought after. BUT that’s not the case. Their trainers and training department SUCKS. Human Resource Sucks. Can’t field a Winning Team. Sorry, skiddadle Kid, scram.
 
























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