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Keep Your Chins Up, Nortel Employees
By Mark Evans | October 4, 2008
As Nortel struggles to find its strategic direction, it has no doubt made for compelling and dramatic activity.
There’s lots of questions about the proposed sale of the metro Ethernet network business, Nortel’s crumbling stock price. and what’s going to happen next month during the third-quarter conference calls.
But one thing that also needs to be taken into consideration is there are 30,000 people working for Nortel, raising families, paying bills, etc. There are a lot of hard-working people doing the best they can amid volatile and uncertain conditions.
When you’re unsure about the future of your company, it has to be stressful from a professional and personal perspective. So as much as it’s easy to harpoon management, it’s also important to look into the “trenches” where thousands of Nortel employees are going to work every day, and trying to help Nortel do business.
So, let’s not lose complete focus by being focused on Mike Z. or the stock. There’s a lot more at stake for thousands of Nortel employees than whether MEN will be sold for $1-billion or $2-billion or whether an analyst issues an upgrade or downgrade.
Now, back to our regular programming….
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