Christopher Galvin
Christopher Galvin
Christopher B. Galvinis an American businessman. He served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Motorola from 1997 to 2003...
lonely innovation way
Leading innovation can be a uniquely lonely and unpopular thing because most of the time, you have to stand by yourself saying, "Everybody sees the world this way. I see the world another way."
jobs giving credit
You have to give credit where credit's due. Steve [Jobs] has been probably the single hardware/software forward-looking thinker and executor in our lifetime as an individual. He's quite a brilliant innovator.
thinking people trying
The Galvins like to think about certain things that most people think are impossible, and then we like to engage a process to try to make them possible.
people elsewhere
We Galvins define leadership as 'taking people elsewhere.'
ideas innovation world
When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.
regret reality impact
While we very much regret the impact this will have on certain employees, we must adjust our production capacity to the reality of current business conditions and reduce costs to improve overall financial performance.
achieve broadband delivering eighth improved promises quarter strategic
This is our eighth consecutive quarter of delivering on our promises to achieve a significant turnaround, improved profitability and a strategic refocusing of Motorola around wireless, broadband and the Internet.