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leadership
Leadership Profile: Sass Somekh (Part 1)
Dr. Sass Somekh recently took the time to share with me insights gathered during his phenomenal career. After some initial work with Bell Labs and Intel, he spent 23 years with Applied Materials prior to becoming the President of Novellus. At Applied, he perfected a process of enabling innovation to coexist in a large company
Magic Elixirs for Business
As one explores the dark and dangerous corridors of business one sometimes chances upon magic elixirs that can reduce monstrous challenges to a more manageable size. A few of these elixirs are illuminated below. The first magic elixir is, of course, great motivated people. I won’t say more about this other than to observe that
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 14)
Maggie and I finish our discussion of McClathcy newspapers, and then she provides words of wisdom for aspiring CEO’s and young entreperneurs. SM: McClatchy has definitely seen a drop in advertising on the print side. MW: There has been a drop in revenue, and it has been publicly reported, especially in some of the vertical
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 13)
Maggie also sits on the board of The McClatchy Company. Here we discuss some of the market preassures facing McClatchy and what she views as the way ahead. Of course, we have discussed the newspaper industry’s woes in a fair bit of detail here recently. It’s interesting to hear how a Board Member views those
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 12)
When Maggie arrived at Citizen, one of her first goals was to develop a strong leadership team. Here she discusses her philosophy on establishing a leadership team as well as how she assembled her current team at Citizen. SM: This is probably not a good question for a public company CEO, but it looks like
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 11)
The rural telecommunications market has over 1,500 telecommunications companies, many of them owned privately. Major telecoms such as AT&T and Verizon also own some rural markets, while others are private companies. Here we explore the possibilities of consolidating this market, and the strategies of the larger players. SM: Sounds like the perfect market to consolidate!
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 10)
As a telecommunications company focused on rural markets, Maggie’s challenges are quite different from the urban carriers. When we were scheduling this interview, Maggie absolutely insisted that she would not do it on Skype: “they try to take the food out of the mouth of my babies as a competitor” … In this segment, we’ll
Leadership Profile: Maggie Wilderotter (Part 9)
After Microsoft, Maggie moved to her current role as CEO of Citizen Communications. Here she explains the reasons for her move and provides some background information about Citizen. The consumer business of Citizen is done under the Frontier brand. SM: After Microsoft you switched to Citizen? MW: I did. I was enjoying the job I
