Motorola’s management churn foretold today’s troubles

Motorola's troubles just keep getting worse - as reported today in the WSJ. At least the new CEO, Greg Brown, is predicting "no quick fixes".Looks like a quick fix was tried last summer, though prior to Ed Zander's departure. We track management turnover and you can see from the MOTO chart that there was a major reorg in July. [Red are departures, blue internal moves and green hires - dark are execs, light are managers]. That July spike looks like it was a reorg to take management from ICS - [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:30:42-08:00January 23, 2008|My Personal Journey|0 Comments

CEO departure – not a surprise

Ed Zander’s departure from Motorola, while not a surprise, is a sad testament to the fact that the company has not really found it’s footing in more than 15 years.I sold to Motorola in the late 80s and early 90s while at Synopsys. Then it was a company focused on quality and the Malcolm Baldridge award. The people were high quality, but the pace was slow and there was not much vision for a unified strategy. Semiconductor was still strong – living on the back of the smash success 68000 [...]

By |2017-12-06T17:33:46-08:00December 3, 2007|Leadership|0 Comments
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