Comments on: Will demoting RIM’s CEOs save the handset maker?

By: minzhu

minzhu — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:50:43 +0000

Don’t blame CEO, they want RIM win.

RIM has strange culture and self distruct political environment.

In RIM if a new hired person figure out major problem and introduce efficient approach, both manager and his buddy group member will proof their wrong approach works. just like someone point out driving a car is right way, pushing a car is wrong way, then both manager and his buddy group member will hate you, and proof that 3 person can also move the car by pushing it. cheating email will be sent to some vice president, saying like: see, the car moving, pushing a car is a natural part of the process, in order to deny new hired contribution of introducing skill of drive a car, they have to deny merit of driving a car.

It is very strange company culture and strange company political environment, it promote stealing and cheating skill. RIM’s management may be a typical instance in MBA course.

This culture deny or steal hardworking team members’ contribution/innovation, generate strange political environment, destroy RIM.

So don’t blame CEO, some of their VPs and VPs’ expert generate terrible culture and self destruct political environment.

By: Tal

Tal — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:42:41 +0000

Even the Blogsphere lost interest in this already … I feel for all the good Canadian people who will suffer from their management failure. Its always the same story …

By: Robb Dunewood

Robb Dunewood — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 19:36:52 +0000

Unfortunately, not here in the United States. It may buy the company a bit of time oversees, but, RIM doesn’t have, nor, will they have a product that doesn’t seem inferior in every to Android phones, the iPhone, and Windows Phone 7 devices less maybe physical keyboard and battery life until late this year at the earliest.

By: thepbxguy

thepbxguy — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 17:54:05 +0000

RIM has failed to innovate for so many years. It’s the combination of so many different factors including terrible management of development and failure to adapt to changing market conditions.

RIM is rapidly becoming a textbook example of a Giant who didn’t realize it was underwater until it drowned.

Just how many more nails can this coffin handle?