Intel Inside (2025): Leadership Shuffle or Medical Drama (circa 1820)? 🩺
- Sunil Dutt Jha
- Apr 5
- 3 min read
One Enterprise, One Anatomy. At ICMG, we discovered a core truth: every enterprise—and every project—has a single, unified anatomy. Fragmented models and siloed decisions only lead to chaos. This isn’t just theory. It’s the lens that lets us diagnose and treat organizational dysfunction with surgical precision.
So… let’s apply it to the latest corporate cliffhanger.
INT. INTEL HEADQUARTERS – DAY
Scene 1: A Tale of Two Leaders.
Enter Leader 1: A brilliant technologist. Once CTO of Intel. Then CEO of VMware. Then, in a dramatic homecoming, crowned as the Intel CEO.
Cut to: Intel’s Boardroom.Months pass. Bold declarations are made. Vision slides are animated. And then—just like that—terminated.
No closure, no act break. Just gone.
Cue Leader 2: Once a board member. Famously clashed with Leader 1. Resigned in protest. But wait! In a plot twist worthy of a Shyamalan screenplay—returns as the new CEO.
Roll credits?
Not quite. First, let’s meet our Two Interim Co-CEOs, who briefly hold the reins like stagehands in a Shakespearean tragedy. Then politely retreat to their familiar CFO and GM thrones, probably muttering, “Thank heavens that’s over.”
Scene 2: Meanwhile few months earlier, at OpenAI...
Sam Altman plays ping-pong with the board and still drives the AI revolution forward. One day he’s fired, the next he’s reinstated. The company almost collapses. Then rebounds. It’s tech leadership, yes—but it’s also a masterclass in “improve management.”
Gut-driven decisions.
Boardroom melodrama.
Founder wars.
Strategic guesses dressed as vision statements.
Are We Running Companies or 1820s Medical Theatres?
If a 19th-century doctor strolled into Intel or OpenAI right now, they’d feel right at home.
Replace leeches with PowerPoints.
Swap tonics for TED Talks.
It's still guesswork wrapped in confidence.
Back in 1820, doctors didn’t study the human anatomy—they simply did stuff and hoped the patient survived. That’s where corporate leadership seems stuck today.
Where’s the Enterprise Anatomy?
Let’s be blunt: most enterprises operate without any clear, unified anatomy.
Strategy is a PowerPoint.
Process is tribal knowledge.
Systems are tangled.
Components?
Unmapped. Implementation?
Ad hoc. Operations?
Reactive.
No wonder CEOs come and go like interns at a startup.
Intel didn’t fail because its people lacked talent. It failed because its enterprise had no single, coherent anatomy that everyone could align with—especially at the leadership level.
Board vs CEO?
Product vs Strategy?
Finance vs Innovation?
All misfires of a missing anatomy.
Without it, leaders resort to instinct, politics, or luck—just like 1820s medicine.
The Cure: One Enterprise, One Anatomy
Let’s not confuse charisma with clarity. Or gut-feeling with governance.
The ICMG Enterprise Anatomy Model offers what Intel and others sorely lack:
Defined Strategic Goals mapped to actual products and services
Linked Process Models that everyone can follow
System Logic that reflects business intent, not just IT diagrams
Component Specs and Configurations that ensure scale and repeatability
Implementation Models that don’t reinvent the wheel every quarter
Operating Models that can be measured, improved, and trusted
All on One Page, dynamically linked and understood by leadership and operations alike
No more mystery illnesses. No more management by moon phases.
So, What Now?
Whether you’re a CEO, CTO, or board member—you need to ask:
“Am I diagnosing and operating my enterprise like a 21st-century surgeon… or like a 19th-century mystic?”
If your enterprise still runs on executive mood swings, internal turf wars, or disconnected power centers—it’s time to map your anatomy. Because until then, every strategic decision is just a lucky (or unlucky) incision.
Trade your leeches for linkages.Swap your guesswork for clarity.And start managing with anatomy—not alchemy.
Want to see what a real Enterprise Anatomy looks like?
[Let’s get your enterprise out of the 1820s → Schedule a Free Diagnostic Session]
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