Telecom Perspective: A synopsis
A New Serious Tone at Supercomm
By Cody Willard
Special to TheStreet.com
ATLANTA -- What's so striking about this year's Supercomm? Compared with the annual telecom trade shows of years past, it's the very serious, down-to-earth attitude prevalent among the many companies here.
Last year's Supercomm was rampant with two distinctly unproductive approaches. First, there were ridiculous pie-in-the-sky executives, apparent holdouts from 2000 who somehow still believed that the telecom markets were sustaining a minor downturn. (The key word there is "minor.") Second, there were the utterly depressed marketing and sales reps at the booths, who mumbled and grumbled about how much they hated their jobs. They didn't have to complain for long; many of them lost their jobs soon after.
" Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." ~ William Feather
