Professor Peabody
11-02-2014, 12:52 PM
Posted Wednesday, October 29th 2014 @ 10pm
Former Trek President and CEO Confirms Mary Burke was Fired
In 1993, Tom Albers learned about big problems with Trek Bicycle Corporation’s European division. Sales numbers were down, and employees were in a near mutiny against the young woman Trek founder Richard Burke had put in charge.
Albers, Trek’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, served as Burke’s second-in-command and suddenly had to navigate a very difficult situation.
The head of Trek’s European division was his boss’ daughter, Mary.
“She reported directly to her brother John, who served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing,” Albers recalls. “He reported directly to me, and I reported to their father, Dick.”
“And also, we were encountering personnel/people problems over there. The people were threatening to leave the company. Many of them were.”
Primarily, Albers contends, because of the managerial style of their supervisor, Mary Burke.
“Her way of managing was kind of a ‘her way or the highway’ kind of approach to things,” Albers explains, adding that her subordinates “felt that she wouldn’t listen to them and was just imposing things on them that didn’t make sense.”
“So because of all that—which had gone on for a while, obviously—John Burke went to his father basically saying, ‘We need to make a change over here.’ Obviously, being a family situation, this was extremely sensitive and very difficult to pursue. So Dick Burke came to me and said, ‘Before anything is done here, would you go over there and give me your thoughts on what the situation is like?’”
“The family—and by that I mean Dick and John Burke—finally agreed to bring her back. And so, to say it bluntly, she was fired.”
http://www.newstalk1130.com/onair/common-sense-central-37717/former-trek-president-and-ceo-confirms-12916069/
Wow, let go from the family business......OUCH!
In the race for governor, Democratic candidate Mary Burke has been touting her experience as a Trek Bicycle executive. (http://fox6now.com/2014/05/04/corporations-not-paying-state-income-taxes-whats-mary-burkes-position/)
Burke has been touting her experience as a Trek Bicycle executive. I guess she must of forgotten why doesn't work for Trek anymore. If it's true that "people were threatening to leave" and “Her way of managing was kind of a ‘her way or the highway’ kind of approach to things” along with her support for common core education, then I think she's the last person Wisconsin needs for a Governor. Geez, if she couldn't manage a division of bicycle company, why would anyone think she could manage the State of Wisconsin?
Former Trek President and CEO Confirms Mary Burke was Fired
In 1993, Tom Albers learned about big problems with Trek Bicycle Corporation’s European division. Sales numbers were down, and employees were in a near mutiny against the young woman Trek founder Richard Burke had put in charge.
Albers, Trek’s Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, served as Burke’s second-in-command and suddenly had to navigate a very difficult situation.
The head of Trek’s European division was his boss’ daughter, Mary.
“She reported directly to her brother John, who served as the Vice President of Sales and Marketing,” Albers recalls. “He reported directly to me, and I reported to their father, Dick.”
“And also, we were encountering personnel/people problems over there. The people were threatening to leave the company. Many of them were.”
Primarily, Albers contends, because of the managerial style of their supervisor, Mary Burke.
“Her way of managing was kind of a ‘her way or the highway’ kind of approach to things,” Albers explains, adding that her subordinates “felt that she wouldn’t listen to them and was just imposing things on them that didn’t make sense.”
“So because of all that—which had gone on for a while, obviously—John Burke went to his father basically saying, ‘We need to make a change over here.’ Obviously, being a family situation, this was extremely sensitive and very difficult to pursue. So Dick Burke came to me and said, ‘Before anything is done here, would you go over there and give me your thoughts on what the situation is like?’”
“The family—and by that I mean Dick and John Burke—finally agreed to bring her back. And so, to say it bluntly, she was fired.”
http://www.newstalk1130.com/onair/common-sense-central-37717/former-trek-president-and-ceo-confirms-12916069/
Wow, let go from the family business......OUCH!
In the race for governor, Democratic candidate Mary Burke has been touting her experience as a Trek Bicycle executive. (http://fox6now.com/2014/05/04/corporations-not-paying-state-income-taxes-whats-mary-burkes-position/)
Burke has been touting her experience as a Trek Bicycle executive. I guess she must of forgotten why doesn't work for Trek anymore. If it's true that "people were threatening to leave" and “Her way of managing was kind of a ‘her way or the highway’ kind of approach to things” along with her support for common core education, then I think she's the last person Wisconsin needs for a Governor. Geez, if she couldn't manage a division of bicycle company, why would anyone think she could manage the State of Wisconsin?