Thursday, June 07, 2007
Personality traits of CEOs
One of the real pleasures at The Canadian Telecom Summit is the opportunity to meet a wide variety of CEOs from suppliers and service providers from around the world.
Each has a different personality and each a different approach to running their business and to the way they deal with people.
In yesterday's Financial Post, I wrote about Michael Sabia, CEO of Bell Canada - the phone company formerly known as BCE [
version].
In the article, I recalled the way he dealt with a questioner at a recent AGM and insisted on being called 'Michael' rather than 'Mr. Sabia.' I wrote that
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Each has a different personality and each a different approach to running their business and to the way they deal with people.
In yesterday's Financial Post, I wrote about Michael Sabia, CEO of Bell Canada - the phone company formerly known as BCE [
version].In the article, I recalled the way he dealt with a questioner at a recent AGM and insisted on being called 'Michael' rather than 'Mr. Sabia.' I wrote that
I suspect that you can learn a lot about human nature by examining the way an executive treats people at the bottom of the organization.Michael Sabia is the luncheon keynote speaker on June 13 at The 2007 Canadian Telecom Summit.
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Posted by Mark Goldberg @ 6/07/2007 06:34:00 AM 
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Hi, Mark. You're too easy on Mr. Sabia... sorry... Michael. The "nurturing" of those separate businesses possibly resulted in higher sale prices for those units; however, Bell's core business has lagged relative to the industry. The recent share price increase is based on a private equity firms purchasing Bell and doing things Mr. Sabia... sorry... Michael... should have already done or had his executive do.
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: 1:00 PM, June 07, 2007
: 1:00 PM, June 07, 2007
Oh,yes...and strategic decisions seldom take a year to be realized. And even less seldom to they take a calendar year. So those three friends compared notes, but their note pages were probably blank.
Posted by : 1:05 PM, June 07, 2007
: 1:05 PM, June 07, 2007
WOW when i read this the only thing that comes to mind is:
Do you do any paid work for bell to give such praisings of this guy?
The only reason bell shares went up is because of the private equity firms/teachers union.
Do you do any paid work for bell to give such praisings of this guy?
The only reason bell shares went up is because of the private equity firms/teachers union.
Posted by : 3:08 PM, June 07, 2007
: 3:08 PM, June 07, 2007
If Bell's core business has lagged compared to the industry, then why haven't private equity firms and the teachers union taken more interest in other telcos?
Posted by : 9:36 PM, June 07, 2007
: 9:36 PM, June 07, 2007
"If Bell's core business has lagged compared to the industry, then why haven't private equity firms and the teachers union taken more interest in other telcos?"
What other telcos? Once you exclude Rogers (Ted says "get lost"), TELUS (PE firms have considered them already, but more can be squeezed out of Bell), and MTS (who'd want to buy them!)...there's no one left to buy.
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What other telcos? Once you exclude Rogers (Ted says "get lost"), TELUS (PE firms have considered them already, but more can be squeezed out of Bell), and MTS (who'd want to buy them!)...there's no one left to buy.
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