BT Group reviews

Relatively political environment - it employs more people than many countries have in their adult population; and those countries have coups, civil wars, political and religious factions and wildly diverse views of what is 'fact'; BT has all these same problems, which are a function of large groups of people and nothing to do with specific employers. Slow decision-making - an excessive interest in securing consensus, combined with risk aversion, can make forward momentum very hard to achieve. That said, with enough will-power, absolutely anything can be achieved.

Failure to integrate acquisitions. Decision making is not distributed -- tends to go up the chain. Lack of executive direction. Recent execs focus on personal compensation versus proper restructuring of the company to meet market needs and provide shareholder value.