Do you remember the party purges of the old Soviet Union? Take a big centralized bureaucracy, remove the leader (death, or whatever), and once the posturing, positioning and re-positioning was done, you’d get a new guy at the top, and a bunch of the old guys underlings were out of a job.Â
Smells a lot like what’s going on a Bell South today. Om Malik has the scoop on a whole mess of Bell South execs who are out of a job, now that the merger has gone through. Looks like Mark Feidler, and a bunch of his loyalists are no longer part of Ed Whitacre’s “ruling politburo”.Â
Alec Saunders is the Vice President of Developer Relations for BlackBerry make Research in Motion. This is his personal blog, with his personal viewpoints. Prior to this Alec was the CEO and co-founder of Calliflower — the easiest way to hold a meeting, online, on a conference call, or on the go. A double-decade veteran of product management and marketing, he spent nine years at Microsoft where he helped launch Windows 95, the first two versions of Internet Explorer, the Universal Plug and Play initiative, the push into home markets, opt-in email marketing and what might well go down in history as the very first direct email list ever.
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How many baby bells were created after the break-up of Ma Bell? I am thinking 6-8. Of those, we now have 3 together again. Oh yeah, this is a wise move!