A nice article on Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila, who will be stepping down in June.
Link: USATODAY.com – For CEO who remade Nokia, one bold departure deserves another.
Ollila made Finland a world power in cellphones. Today, he gives the keynote at the huge CTIA Wireless trade show in Las Vegas as a last hurrah before stepping down as CEO of Nokia on June 1.
"It’s healthy for a company to have change," Ollila told me on the phone from Helsinki a couple of weeks ago. "And I’ve done my bit."
No kidding. Ollila is not just any old CEO who might tinker with strategy, play golf with retired sports figures and lend the corporate jet to politicians. Ollila made one of the more daring decisions in business history and spent the next 14 years making that decision seem brilliant.
One possible factual error: There are at least 2 billion mobiles out there, that’s how many subscribers there are.
And very good analogy to GM, who should really get out of the car business…
Thanks Peter for the link (and the following ones too).
