Executive leadership plays on like the band on the Titanic as if all is well, while everyone runs for the life boats. For those left behind, their fate is equally cold and dark.
Marketing and Distribution is a disaster, run by authoritarian rule at the C-suite level and is always in search of the shiny new thing. New ideas that aren't in line with the C-suite's thoughts are immediately and brutally crushed. As others have mentioned, Sales is a disaster because of the revolving door of VP's who are hired and then quickly fall out of favor with the CCO, who then fires them and starts the cycle over again. While it's most pervasive in Sales, this is the fate for many in Marketing and Distribution. Once you fall out of favor with the CCO, it's widely accepted that your career is done and you'll be bullied and shut out until you leave or are forced out. Sycophants are rewarded and people with zero experience are put in roles that they're seriously under-skilled for. Every project or initiative is a fire drill.
There's no CMO, which, for a company that relies so heavily on marketing, is both shocking and glaringly apparent in terms of the priorities that are handed down from the C-suite. Executive infighting is common, pitting their teams against one another and making life hell for the managers that have to work among each other for the good of the overall business.
