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<blockquote data-quote="Heilemann" data-source="post: 8933573" data-attributes="member: 7017813"><p>I feel like every time this guy opens his mouth. My esteem of Wizards of the Coast drops to an even lower point. I can’t begin to count all of the dysfunctional markers I’m seeing in what he’s saying about how they operate. Nobody knows what’s going on. Nobody’s telling anyone anything. Oh oops, we almost nuclear bombed the whole industry. Yeah, sorry about that. We didn’t mean it! oh, We took way too long to communicate, it’s only rule number one in crisis management. Oh look, it’s not even the boss out front. It’s the henchman of a henchman of a henchman, except, of course, when it’s someone writing some thing about winning, but nobody seems to know who did that, and why would they, it’s only the face of the company ¯\<em>(ツ)</em>/¯</p><p></p><p>What an absolute poop show</p><p></p><p>One of the things that really stood out for me in this one is how he casually throws anybody who has come before him in a leadership role under the bus. What a naughty word move! It’s one thing to surface internal cultural issues, it’s a whole different thing to wipe them off on previous management. You can let the audience do the math on that one, but that is one sleazy move.</p><p></p><p>This guy has not had enough media training to be doing what he’s doing, for the love of God, somebody stop him!</p><p></p><p>Moreover, why is he even the one doing the talking. This is the biggest crisis in the brand history, his boss, or that guy’s boss should be the ones out in front of this, not this guy who somehow doesn’t even know who wrote the first public statement about this whole debacle. Not to mention the pathetic attempt at covering everything in diversity apologies. Give me an absolute break.</p><p></p><p>if I was an investor, I would run screaming away from Wizards of the Coast immediately.</p><p></p><p>Now I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I am a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan, but their books are OK (I have most of the fifth edition line for some reason, although I won’t be buying any more). But what is so obviously not OK for anybody paying attention to how they’re handling this crisis is their lack of operational excellence. They simply don’t know how to handle themselves at the size they have somehow become if there isn’t some pretty serious restructuring in the future of this company, they will find a way to do it again, I guarantee it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Heilemann, post: 8933573, member: 7017813"] I feel like every time this guy opens his mouth. My esteem of Wizards of the Coast drops to an even lower point. I can’t begin to count all of the dysfunctional markers I’m seeing in what he’s saying about how they operate. Nobody knows what’s going on. Nobody’s telling anyone anything. Oh oops, we almost nuclear bombed the whole industry. Yeah, sorry about that. We didn’t mean it! oh, We took way too long to communicate, it’s only rule number one in crisis management. Oh look, it’s not even the boss out front. It’s the henchman of a henchman of a henchman, except, of course, when it’s someone writing some thing about winning, but nobody seems to know who did that, and why would they, it’s only the face of the company ¯\[I](ツ)[/I]/¯ What an absolute poop show One of the things that really stood out for me in this one is how he casually throws anybody who has come before him in a leadership role under the bus. What a naughty word move! It’s one thing to surface internal cultural issues, it’s a whole different thing to wipe them off on previous management. You can let the audience do the math on that one, but that is one sleazy move. This guy has not had enough media training to be doing what he’s doing, for the love of God, somebody stop him! Moreover, why is he even the one doing the talking. This is the biggest crisis in the brand history, his boss, or that guy’s boss should be the ones out in front of this, not this guy who somehow doesn’t even know who wrote the first public statement about this whole debacle. Not to mention the pathetic attempt at covering everything in diversity apologies. Give me an absolute break. if I was an investor, I would run screaming away from Wizards of the Coast immediately. Now I’m not going to sit here and pretend that I am a huge Dungeons and Dragons fan, but their books are OK (I have most of the fifth edition line for some reason, although I won’t be buying any more). But what is so obviously not OK for anybody paying attention to how they’re handling this crisis is their lack of operational excellence. They simply don’t know how to handle themselves at the size they have somehow become if there isn’t some pretty serious restructuring in the future of this company, they will find a way to do it again, I guarantee it. [/QUOTE]
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