This Week: Lessons in Leadership from Denny Strigl

Analysts Don Kellogg and Roger Entner discuss the latest news in telecom, media, and technology with special guest Denny Strigl, retired president and CEO of Verizon wireless.

1:00 How to be a disruptor as a leader rather than as an insurgent

2:50 The Verizon Wireless credo

4:00 Culture is the lifeblood of an organization

5:00 Translating the credo to action

7:15 Building a deep bench with a decentralized organization

8:00 The key to dealing with failure

10:15 Competing fiercely with competitors but working together for the industry

12:15 Making big changes for the benefit of the customer

16:45 How does the organization execute on the vision of the leader

17:45 John Legere’s leadership at T-Mobile

18:30 How to make mergers work

22:30 Recommendations for young leaders

24:45 The shadow of the leader

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