Mott has introduced a lot of middle managers around 2021 to 2023 who are foreign to the culture and lack technical expertise in the products. Mott was able to grow with the influx of professionals, some great, some terrible. The bad ones are these individuals that are trying so hard to make their mark that they’ve completely missed the real goals.
Priorities become skewed when you have bosses who lack knowledge and experience, yet insist on marching the team in the wrong direction. It’s like a firefighter who starts the fire just to rescue people and be celebrated as a hero — earning praise for solving a problem that never should have existed in the first place.
As a result, the culture has declined from a 5 to a 3. Experienced, well-respected people have left or retired.