Pros
Continuum Energy was a good place to work where you could take ownership and accountability to deliver results. I valued the time I spent working there and enjoyed my interactions with Jason Few and other members of the senior leadership team. Jason proved to be a caring and compassionate leader with a strong vision to develop a nationally branded and integrated company. I appreciated the fact he always operated with integrity and commitment that provided a stable set of expectations for me to lead my business. Jason was always available for a quick conversation about the business and was willing to offer both positive and difficult feedback. He treated people very fairly, and did so with high expectations for performance and accountability. In reading other reviews, it seems a number of employees have “dinged” Jason Few. Their experience was not my experience and I would venture to say these are the same employees who stood in the way of change and improvement (see note under Cons).
Cons
A couple critical areas made operating at Continuum Energy challenging. First, the Board created significant disruption in the business. A number of Board members were former senior managers for the company. As strategic and tactical changes to improve the business were introduced, the Board would often second guess and vote down the agenda for improvement. While many company managers and employees desired to move forward, change and growth plans were often thwarted by Board decision-making. Second, a segment of longer-term employees refused to embrace the change required to build a profitable and growing company. A number of these employees I interacted with did not like the increased performance expectations or accountability for results. Many of these employees became tactical obstacles through inaction or detrimental actions that held back the ability to drive improvement implementation. They would not take ownership for their results and often played the blame game. Their behaviors and actions made the gears of change grind slow and resulted in significant frustration through the employee ranks.