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<blockquote data-quote="Average at Best" data-source="post: 326175" data-attributes="member: 14548"><p>I absolutely agree with that statement. The problem I've always run across is that we get these screwy decisions by corporate that make absolutely no sense. In my opinion, it is because of the shift in culture. Back in the old days, your upper, upper management was comprised of people that started as part-time preloaders and worked their way up. They knew how the system worked, and they took their early experiences on with them as they became corporate decision makers. Now, you seem to have a lot more people getting hired straight into your upper management positions because they have an MBA from Harvard or Wharton. I'm not knocking Ivy League grads, but UPS doesn't run the way a textbook says it should. You need those early preload/reload/hub experiences to make good decisions for the company. That way, you know how a hub runs by experience, not how your strategic management class told you it should run.</p><p> </p><p>And I think some of the little Hitler behavior you see in some lower management is an off-shoot of this powerlessness. You have a fancy title like "Business Manager" but you can't change your goals, and you have procedures for everything from which direction to turn your vehicle (not left) to which type of copy paper to order through OASIS (the cheap stuff from Staples that sticks together). All you can do is march around with a puffed out chest, barking at the union people and feeding into an ego that, without the Hitler-attitude, might be sadly underfed.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Average at Best, post: 326175, member: 14548"] I absolutely agree with that statement. The problem I've always run across is that we get these screwy decisions by corporate that make absolutely no sense. In my opinion, it is because of the shift in culture. Back in the old days, your upper, upper management was comprised of people that started as part-time preloaders and worked their way up. They knew how the system worked, and they took their early experiences on with them as they became corporate decision makers. Now, you seem to have a lot more people getting hired straight into your upper management positions because they have an MBA from Harvard or Wharton. I'm not knocking Ivy League grads, but UPS doesn't run the way a textbook says it should. You need those early preload/reload/hub experiences to make good decisions for the company. That way, you know how a hub runs by experience, not how your strategic management class told you it should run. And I think some of the little Hitler behavior you see in some lower management is an off-shoot of this powerlessness. You have a fancy title like "Business Manager" but you can't change your goals, and you have procedures for everything from which direction to turn your vehicle (not left) to which type of copy paper to order through OASIS (the cheap stuff from Staples that sticks together). All you can do is march around with a puffed out chest, barking at the union people and feeding into an ego that, without the Hitler-attitude, might be sadly underfed. [/QUOTE]
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