Former Nortel Geek

What Would John Chambers Have Done for Nortel?

LastHopes comments to the contrary, I think that you're bang on with your comments. Nortel needed a radical change in strategy, organization, and leadership back when it would have actually mattered (2000 - 2005). Z actually looked like he was the one for the job but hasn't stepped up. He and his band of jackasses have failed and failed miserably. His leadership abilities have turned out to be wildly over rated, proving Motorola's decision not to make him their CEO a correct one.

While hindsight is both fun and 20/20, I don't think that it was required a few years ago to get Nortel on the right course. Chambers would have been the only one capable of turning Nortel around. He still may, yet, with Nortel's stock at the current levels. :-)