engadget.com — [...]Motorola's current CEO, Greg Brown, is so technologically out of touch he refuses to use a computer for communications, and has all his email correspondences printed by his secretary and replied to by dictation.
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badqatMar 26, 2008
Uh, and if that's what you want, why not get it?
mellertimeMar 27, 2008
I can't even ski sober. I don't know how you could possibly do it drunk... Who's your trainer?
pmccallMar 27, 2008
Bob Galvin knew how to encourage innovation and made Motorola great.Chris Galvin wasn't his father, but he'd learned enough to focus on the long-term and real innovation. That wasn't good enough for the market, though. Mobile Devices was doing well, but his insistence on putting resources in all of the company and not just the cell phones kept Motorola from growing as fast as tech stocks in the soon-to-burst tech bubble. So, they undervalued the company and forced him out. He was replaced with Zander - an empty suit who cut costs and killed innovation, but was lucky enough to be there when the RAZR came out. Now that the RAZR is old news and Zander has nothing in queue to replace it, the market is forcing him out.They pulled Brown up from one of the Motorola divisions that was succeeding while Mobile Devices was failing - one that actually kept innovating and owning it's market while Zander rode RAZR's coattails and left Motorola with noting in queue to maintain that dominance. And here comes the market again putting the pressure on Motorola to dump him. Well, the last time the market forced out a Motorola insider so they could replace him with a superstar CEO it went great! Why wouldn't you want to do that again?
caleb4mjMar 27, 2008
I'm confused. Who's to blame? Motorola or their CEO? Or nobody, business as usual?
bradleylandMar 27, 2008
So I heard you like Mudkips...
analogsApr 15, 2008
No, it was a John though. John Cipolla.
zdwadeApr 22, 2008
that brian boytano(sp) character