TechnologyBoardroom accountability and Motorola Solutions’ shift to public safety technology
Semafor says Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown credits activist-investor or private-equity involvement in the boardroom with making him more accountable and pushing him to think “like an owner.”
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Semafor says an activist investor or private-equity firm had a boardroom seat for most of Greg Brown’s nearly two decades as Motorola Solutions CEO. In its The CEO Signal interview, Brown says that experience helped him become better at the job. He discusses leading the company from being best known for mobile phones to focusing on public safety, security and defense technology. His test for some of his biggest decisions: Would taking a different course leave the company feeling “relief or regret”?
