- Expect micromanaging from the top level to the bottom. As upper management is not familiar with pulling reports from SFDC, they expect people to update numerous reports on Google Sheets constantly. (40% of your time will be spent updating numbers).
- Unrealistic targets: Every quarter your targets will keep increasing, regardless of whether you hit your goals. Targets are set 5 times above what people in the market are achieving.
- Lack of resources/support. Management will always say they will support you, but when you need help, they go silent or don't reply in group chat. They wanted to focus on certain markets but lacked the resources/budget to drive any market initiative.
- Managers don't know the market well. Doesn't know how each market functions. They just keep repeating the same old playbook, hoping things will change. Clearly, they have already lost their touch. No strategies from them. They are good at managing upwards, hence stayed in their role for very long.
- Managers are flying over all, staying at places that they not supposed to stay. i.e. over-staying in certain locations and claiming that it's remote working. No oversight to their actions.