Mojo and I were talking this morning and she told me about this ‘thread’ of quitting she had been noticing. Here at Nokia, the past 12 months have seem like the quittin’ time (in more ways than one), since so many big kahunas took off for other things: Pekka Ala-Pietälä, Jorma Ollila, Christian Lindholm, Pertti Korhonen, Matti Ala-Huhta, Frank Nuovo, just to name a few (and Sari Baldauf and JT Bergqvist earlier last year).
Yes, Mojo, we are still not at Summer even. And I do know a few who will likely quit (or are so jonesing to) in the next 6 months, too.
One thing: ‘quitting’ usually has a bad connotation. I would like to to hope that for most on your list, the ‘quitting’ was done for a positive reason and the interesting tid-bit is not in ‘why they quit’ but ‘what they are doing now’ and ‘how by quitting, I am a better person’.
Eh, just a more positive spin, cause, well, we can talk about that later. 🙂
Link: 2006 Year of the Quitter | 6/20/2006 | mobile jones.
The 21st century is different in so many ways from the 20th century. In its short life, this century is about complexity, information explosion, democracy breaking out all over, shifting power and from observing the landscape of social media; it’s also "The Year to Quitter."
