Jamie Turner at Mli

Jamie Turner at MLI, Inc. Jamie Turner faces a difficult situation at Modern Lighting Industries Inc. (MLI). The company is struggling financially and has recently been acquired by a larger firm. Turner was hired as Vice President (V.P.) of marketing and sales by company president Pat Cardullo. Turner was all but guaranteed Cardullo’s position in less than two years when he was hired. However, six months later, the young manager’s future at the company is in serious jeopardy. The root cause(s) can best be summarized as: The denigration of their relationship; which can be traced to two main issues.
A) Ineffective communication between Cardullo and Turner.
B) The cultural differences between MLI, Inc. and the management style(s) that Turner was accustomed to with the previous companies for which he worked. Cardullo has embraced an outdated style of management, he’s obdurate and refuses to adapt or be persuaded by his new Vice President –Turner. Not only is there is ineffective communication between Turner and Cardullo there is serious conflict and internal strife among the senior managers. Their interpersonal relationships continue to deteriorate as well. The malaise Turner is experiencing is very real; he needs to find solutions for the recalcitrant fractious management team at MLI, Inc. and he needs to do it immediately.
Cultural and Leadership Differences
Cardullo manages by the old command and control model, he manages from the top down [one-way communication] he fails to recognize that most businesses’ follow models where the company is run by cross functional teams of peers. Cardullo thinks that departments should be independent of each other [micro-managed]. MLI has an undefined leadership situation with Cardullo spending half his time in San Diego and half in Chicago it has created a power vacuum in which Turner is seemingly in charge when Cardullo is not there but, Cardullo holds to power with an iron grip. When he is present he often