Can a holdco big fish survive in an indie pond?
Indie life is characterised by its fast-paced, ever-evolving, and highly dynamic nature. In comparison, life at a holdco often feels like being a small cog in a massive bureaucratic machine.
At an indie, regardless of the agency’s size or your role within it, it’s just a fact of life that you don multiple hats. Indie workers embrace a “do-whatever-it-takes” mentality rather than a narrow “do-my-role” mindset.
Simply put, we play and win as a team.
Sounds like this may have triggered something ?
I’d like to know what his staff think of his leadership and his retention rate employee’s that refuse to tolerate a CEO using the saying ‘culture fit’ when really it is a dictatorship.
Collaborative and Iconic CEOs look at themselves before blaming staff. At the end of the day, you hired the staff to begin with and if they left maybe it was your culture that was detrimental not the staff member.
What a ridiculous article. We’ve all heard the cliches of working at an indie to be part of the family. Which actually means we’ll work you to breaking point and then gaslight you into thinking it’s my fault and not the lack of leadership, support, training or HR.