- Leadership mistrust: constantly painting rosy picture when real outlook is bleak (e.g. thin new biz pipeline, cash flow issues, etc.)
- Extremely inept financial operations / systems with constant promises of improvement & stability, yet never seemingly gets better
- Lack of dedicated growth and big new business wins
- Lack of integration across service offerings (e.g. media, creative, research) with right and left hands rarely aligning
- Constant layoffs and outsourcing (though they won't call it that) of U.S.-based roles to Mexico and India as a means to make up for the financial P&L flaws
- All of the above results in the best resources being stretched far too thin, minimal/no opportunities for earnings increases, and a very unstable future for the orginzation.