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The ever eloquent "Scribbler" strikes again. I have a few problems with this article.
1. She assumes that the 22% that were successful (quite a large number in my opinion) cheated to get there.
"While I applaud the determination of the women who managed to make it to the top, I don’t applaud the mass recruiting, manipulation, and frontloading tactics I know it took to get them there."
2. Her friend "Bluto" would be the one violating her in this bizarre fantasy which means according to her odd analogy at the end, he/she would need to send scrib the flowers in order to be "better" than the hypothetical NSD she is sneering at.
3. The women that didn't make it can't be typified as one person. They didn't make it. We can't reasonably speculate why. Some may have gotten tired of it. Some decided it wasn't worth it. Some were doing all the front-loading Pink Truth accuses all Mary Kay people of doing and it finally caught up to them. The fact that 22% made it is impressive by any industry standard.
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48% were at the same rank? That seems to be maintenance-level to me. Also, and perhaps this isn't clear from the statistics, it seems as if all of them are still involved in some capacity with MK. Does that mean 0% turnover?
ReplyDeleteI agree with you elbries... this article seems to completely discredit Pink Truth's high turnover rate hypothesis.
ReplyDeleteI believe that she is only referencing the "higher ups" here, so obviously this still leaves the lower underlings for the churn and burn theory.
The problem is that to some extent, there will be a lot of movement - up and down and in and out. Some of it will be natural "selection" in a business model (some work, some don't) and some of it will be manipulative behavior.
In a lot of ways, though, underperforming equals demotion. In a company like MK, underperforming means not meeting quota (if you're a director, etc.) and you risk losing your position. That could be because of the team that was built, the situations of individual team members, and what each person's goal originally was. I'm not say that many (or even most!) of these women were not going for NSD. Perhaps, though, some were not . . . hence the 48%. Obviously, though, that is pure speculation on all of our parts. We don't know the circumstances informing the moves up, down, and sideways.
ReplyDeleteI sm PRO Mk but I have a love hate relationship with Pink Truth. I must admit that they have some talented writers over there in that camp but at the same time I DO feel sorry for any former consultants who have been manipulated in the name of Jesus to stock up on inventory. Lets be honest this DOES happen and there are directors who have bought their way into production. Having said all of that if a woman loses a caddie or her unit or whatever we ALL have changed jobs in our lifetime and if a consultant or director leaves Mary Kay so what? Its not the end of the world and it doesnt make the company bad. All directors are not going for NSD you are right Elbries and just because we are looking at numbers in a magazine we dont know what they are selling personally. I know for a fact that are women who are not in the APPLAUSE magazine who are living off of personal sales and may have commission checks of 3000 a month its better than being laid off. Pink Truth serves a purpose for women who have been burned but there are more good or just as many in the company as there are bad.
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