Here’s an incredibly strange development regarding Delta’s newest executive…
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With a career as long as that, it can probably be safely said that he’d reached a point where he felt comfortable saying, “My next bad day at work will be my last.” It appears that day came. Hope he is able to enjoy life without missing (read: “being addicted to”) the grind.
It is possible that Delta hired him to get him away from JetBlue and either paid him enough to quit or they found skeletons in his closet such as about the Northeast alliance that they didn't want to be anywhere near.
As for a possible non-compete issue, if Laurence had one and JBLU said they would try to enforce it, he screwed himself.
Highly doubt this has anything to do with noncompete. Almost every executive has one and every company knows this.
It's obvious his employment wasn't in California, where almost all non-compete agreements cannot be enforced as against public policy.
This has made the Silicon Valley tech industry very fluid. There are going to be a number of shocked techies whose companies move to other states, such as Texas, when they discover themselves out of the industry for a year or more.
I'm a retired executive recruiter (headhunter). The recruitment process of a high level executive is quite complicated. Usually, during the offer negotiation phase, legal council is brought in to review all the existing non-competes and non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Both the company's legal council as well as the executive's legal council get involved. So the existing non-competes and NDAs are resolved in advance of actual employment. However, the hiring company does not disclose all of the issues it may be having, these "company problems" are not visible to the executive during the hiring process. Only after the first day of employment and the signing of the new NDA does the executive get to look behind the curtain. Sometimes what the executive sees behind the curtain is not what he/she expected, and determines in a few weeks that there is no way he/she will be able to execute what the employer wants him/her to do. The only way out is an amicable separation. There are risks in the employment process - it doesn't go well all the time.
We have witnessed this flip flop at Amtrak, where the second ex-airline CEO also left well ahead of his stated intent how he was in for the long run. What was not calculated was how he was undermined by his #2, in cahoots with the Board Chair, who wanted to set the table only their way.
Coming out of the corporate jungle, I can visualize the potential of such a rancid, loaded environment where the Board Chair's pet has the support to turnout the new guy to make room for his own promotion.
Such a sudden turnaround towards the departure gate should not be surprising in the corporate world these day, given the incessant issues re age, gender, and longtime favorites.
Indeed, this issue is not limited to one industry. We have witnessed this flip flop at Amtrak, where the second ex-airline CEO also left well ahead of his stated intent how he was in for the long run. What was not calculated was how he was undermined by a long term junior corporate officer, in cahoots with the Board Chair, who wanted to set the table only their way.
Coming out of the corporate jungle, I can visualize the potential of such a rancid, loaded environment where the Board Chair's pet has the support to turnout the new guy to make room for his own promotion.
We’ll find out once his next job is announced. Despite spirit/frontiers merger, doesn’t seem like they’d have a use for him but the timing is very coincidental. Very possible a non-US airline or even a non-airline, like a hotel chain, lured him away.
Why didn't he suddenly have a personal issue that needed his full attention come as one of the possible reasons? Who knows, maybe the wife found him with another woman, maybe he has a child or family member ill. There could be many reasons, not sure why the speculation here. He quit after just starting. Not the first person in the world to do it, not going to be the last.
He didn't like the office coffee service.
'Nuff said.
One credit card at a time.....
exactly. he learned some inconvenient (for delta) truth, or something similar...
If there was a clause, they were aware of it before taking him, so there have to be something else in here???
In many states a non-compete is illegal, not all states, but many. You would have to look at what state has jurisdiction.
Scott was pretty vocal leaving JetBlue that he was going to Delta to replace Joe and succeed Glen. Sounds like they had other ideas for him. It has nothing to do with a noncompete. Reporting to the guy, reporting to the guy, reporting to the guy wasn’t the ego boost he needed (and if you know Scott you know he’s motivated by ego and $$). Let’s see how he does at the next job. He’s already telling people he has something lined up.