The company, specifically Kelly Whelan, is aware of every post made on iHUB. Why waste time and effort educating deaf ears who beg that people telephone her and in the same message insultingly lay out what she's going to say? When one can simply post the thoughts and spare the defiant insults. "Call me and here's what I'll tell you". Incredible, as it may seem!
No, I'm not confident at all that anyone is going to encourage, convince, educate or shame our self-appointed CEO toward doing anything positive or close to prudent in lifting BIEL out of the toilet. Obviously the focus must be on building and achieving a business WIN.
But BIEL has NEVER had a BUSINESS win...only regulatory wins, thanks to Drs. Staelin, Koneru, Rawe and others, that have not turned into anything resembling a business win. Keith Nalepka and others know best how to sell ActiPatch and create sales wins, it's what THEY do. But that's not a business win, a corporate win.
BIEL remains stuck in the sp toilet, 2 weeks after FDA medical device general pain OTC clearance. Impossible? Yes! Why? Red flags of resistance and caution because the former CEO insulted, blew off, demeaned, pulled end-runs, SAID NO to Dr. Scholl's, CVS, KT Tape, Protex, shareholders and employees for years! But, there is a solution.
If Kelly Whelan, just had to make herself CEO, CFO, President and a Director, why not get on the road in the first 10 days after October 6 and visit and explain her father's dementia and defiance and apologize, just apologize? Then do the same with employees FDA, CE Mark agents and shareholders? There is not one person on earth who would not have appreciated the humility and said, "thank you."
And shareholders get, publicly, "Call me and here's what I'll tell you.....". You, there is a 'style' issue here. A style 'issue'. As I reflected recently, here as a matter of fact, I have spoken before many people over a lot of years and included this.....'people almost never remember what you say to them, people always remember how you made them feel.'
For 12 years, Whelans have needed to do 3 things. Take themselves completely out of the equation, because people react negatively to their 'style'. Fix the share issues, and make deals. But those changes require attributes Whelans don't have....wisdom, common sense and genuine respect for others. And that's called narcissism.
Until there is change, there will be no change. People will come and go, someone else will poach BIEL producers, they are a great team, I know. Others will say, "Why don't you come, work with us?" or they tire and move on. It's happened many times over 12 years, I know. Publicly fix the issues of the toxic Whelan name being seen anywhere, the stupid share issue and get on with creating business wins! Not fixing the issues for one day longer is narcissistic stupidity. Read up on NPD, it's in the DNA folks!
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