The candour of Zander
Ed Zander, chief executive of Motorola, has won financial website MarketWatch’s CEO of the Year award. The Dow Jones' website credits him with encouraging more open discussion at mobile phone maker Motorola.
The approachable Zander has turned round Motorola’s mobile phone business, increasing sales by nearly 60% to around $37bn. Its super-slim RAZR phone has sold well and at the big 3GSM show in Cannes last year, Zander told how he took a prototype of the phone home.
The company was planning to make it in silver rather than black, but the black prototype went down so well with Zander’s family, Motorola made one in Black too – in time to be seen at the Oscars.
Two of Zander’s strengths are that he invites ideas - even from people he does not know that well - and that he surrounds himself with strong managers.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/
Ed Zander, chief executive of Motorola, has won financial website MarketWatch’s CEO of the Year award. The Dow Jones' website credits him with encouraging more open discussion at mobile phone maker Motorola.
The approachable Zander has turned round Motorola’s mobile phone business, increasing sales by nearly 60% to around $37bn. Its super-slim RAZR phone has sold well and at the big 3GSM show in Cannes last year, Zander told how he took a prototype of the phone home.
The company was planning to make it in silver rather than black, but the black prototype went down so well with Zander’s family, Motorola made one in Black too – in time to be seen at the Oscars.
Two of Zander’s strengths are that he invites ideas - even from people he does not know that well - and that he surrounds himself with strong managers.
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/
posted by Joia Shillingford at Tuesday, December 06, 2005
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