It's not just any old person who can get a job created just for them: God, perhaps, or Fonzworth Bentley, P Diddy's personal wielder of his Puffjesty's umbrella. Stephen Carter (Lord Carter of Barnes, to give him his full name) has just been slotted into a brand new job at Alcatel-Lucent.
Carter, the former head of the U.K.'s telecom watchdog unit and a one-time minister to Gordon Brown, is moving to Paris next month for his latest role: Chief Marketing, Strategy and Communication Officer. Hmmm, have we ever had a Cmsco before? (Not unless you're a dyslexic fan of disco, methinks.) No matter, what he'll need to do is turn the Franco-American global telecoms company around when he arrives at company headquarters in Paris next month. How will he do it? Let's look to his past to find out:
Alcatel-Lucent is already up against it. Its CEO,...
Carter, the former head of the U.K.'s telecom watchdog unit and a one-time minister to Gordon Brown, is moving to Paris next month for his latest role: Chief Marketing, Strategy and Communication Officer. Hmmm, have we ever had a Cmsco before? (Not unless you're a dyslexic fan of disco, methinks.) No matter, what he'll need to do is turn the Franco-American global telecoms company around when he arrives at company headquarters in Paris next month. How will he do it? Let's look to his past to find out:
Alcatel-Lucent is already up against it. Its CEO,...
- 3/4/2010
- by Addy Dugdale
- Fast Company
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