Jim and Mike
Research In Motion Co-CEO’s Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis just stepped down and the board has named COO Thorsten Heins as the new CEO and President of the company. Mike also stepped down as Chairman and will serve instead as Vice-Chairman of the Board. Jim will still be director of the company (but in a non-operational role). It will be interesting to see how much of an effect on the stock price of RIM.
Here’s the video introducing the new RIM CEO to the world:
What do you guys think? Will we see any major changes at RIM or will it stay the same?
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.