Bingo! Larry Bossidy was another Welch acolyte. Jim Mcinerney went to 3M and ruined its culture of innovation . Harry Stonecipher turned Boeing from a culture of safety to one. of financial bullshit. Meanwhile Jeff Immelt stayed to crap in the nest Welch built by wrecking GE.
All this happened 15-20 years before anyone uttered the acronym “DEI”, but boy, were they ever ready for it…just the flavor of the month of the same kind of management malfeasance they’d been practicing for years.
“just the flavor of the month”
The very worst industry afflicted by that is K-12 education. Every year, a new fad emerges from the “education” departments at universities and is promptly adopted by school districts everywhere. Every new fad is promised as the panacea that will fix failing education and improve score. Every new fad requires the complete upheaval and rejection of what teachers had done in previous years. Yet scores continue to plummet.
My sister saw the Administrator/Teacher ratio go up 10X during her 40 years teaching middle school kids. You need lots of administrators to implement every new fad. As that ratio got worse, results got worse.