Rich Tehrani recently did an interview with Richard Lowe, who heads up Nortel’s carrier business.
Lowe must be able to talk the talk because Tehrani was impressed;
Recently I did get a chance to speak with Richard Lowe (pictured), Nortel’s President of Carrier Networks. And Lowe did a spectacular job addressing my questions and seems to be a great spokesman for the company.
Lowe has been with Nortel for 28 years, starting as an entry level scientist. Who knows, maybe he’s a candidate to replace Mike Zafirovski.
In my opinion, Richard Lowe is the LEAST competent of the Nortel business presidents. A few pretty bad decisions have been made on Lowe's watch, he has no futures vision with a credible execution plan, he doesn't understand how his market is changing (except what is fed to him on PowerPoint charts), and he hires poorly. He continues to fritter away what was once a pillar of Nortel. It's true that CDMA is still a cash machine for Nortel, but Lowe had nothing to do with building the CDMA business and he's turned it into an island with no bridge to the future. Same situation with Nortel's Carrier VoIP program.
Sorry to be so direct, but I feel passionately that the leadership weakness at cabinet level is THE root of Nortel's woes. Everything else flows from that.
If Rich Tehrani is that easily fooled, I'm not interested in what he has to say.
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ANW,
Rich Tehrani is not that easily fooled, he is just that easily bought (see my comment on Mr. Tehrani in 'Siemens' Business Model: Bribery'...--bb
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Taking nothing away from Mr. Lowe but having Mr. Tehrani ‘impressed’ amounts to absolute zero. Mr. Tehrani is yet another industry mouthpiece brownnosing his way into his customers’ accounts payable departments. Below is a link on his bullish (or foolish) outlook on NT in 2006; he also recently praised Joel Hackney for doing a ‘great job’ only six months into Mr. Hackney’s tenure as President of Enterprise Group. Please, give us a break... -- bb
Q&A with Richard Lowe
Rich Tehrani recently did an interview with Richard Lowe, who heads up Nortel’s carrier business.
Lowe must be able to talk the talk because Tehrani was impressed;
Lowe has been with Nortel for 28 years, starting as an entry level scientist. Who knows, maybe he’s a candidate to replace Mike Zafirovski.
What do you think? Is Lowe a CEO candidate?
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