When do you know that a management team is in trouble? Answer: When the game of musical chairs and reorganizations of groups becomes evident. OK, there ARE times when re-orgs are required that aren’t due to inept management. One indicated however of poor or ineffective management however is the proverbial re-organization.
This is done to hide the failure and provide the appearance to others in the know that something is being done about the situation. It’s not important that the culpable parties are held accountable or that the guilty are the ones that lost their jobs. No, the focus here is to hide the failure and provide cover for those in upper management. Now this is a project management nightmare in that the risk of someone with integrity that blows the whistle is great. The good news is that the upper management is so much a closed club that even if someone does offer the truth, it is routinely ignored.