Managers in companies who are in distress, often when they speak up or advise how to fix things, to the higher ups, they get sacked or moved on. Essentially the smart ones are removed. Generally these people leave for greener pastures regardless and the idiots remain. Which makes up a large chunk of the management ranks in corporate Oz.
Can you imagine manager’s going up to AJ and saying we’ve done all this wrong, we need to do this and we need to do that. You would be planning your funeral soon after.
Better off saying nothing, pay a zillion to get consulting groups in, get the same answers, implement the changes, and keep one’s job.
It’s a disgrace but just how the corp and political worlds work.