What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 6
Continuing from last week, today I will be sharing another lesson from Anthony. If you need to improve, get feedback. During one of my discussions with Anthony, I raised the question of career development. I did feel that I could…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-4
Continuing from last week, let us discuss an example of a bad network split. By network split, I mean that you carve out a piece of the network that you are happy to buy from one vendor independently of the…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 5
Continuing from last week, today I will share another invaluable lesson from Anthony. One must use time effectively. Anthony had to travel a lot and he spent at least half of the month traveling. He was expected to be on…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-3
Continuing from last week, let us discuss further as two how we can have standards and still a lot of innovation. The trick is to find the right partitions. If we split the network into layers in such a way…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 4
Continuing from last week, let me share today another simple yet powerful lesson from Anthony. Leaders must use all potential opportunities to connect with teams I had the opportunity to travel with Anthony for a few customer meetings, and invariably…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks-2
Continuing from last week, let us explore the role of standards in creating the networks. Standards do not exist for everything and it is great that they do not. Imagine if government standardized the the sizes, colors and materials of…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 3
Continuing from last week, let me share one more simple thing that Anthony taught me. A meeting with the Execs should never be taken lightly Customer meetings are tough, and many times we face a lot of heat from them.…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? Choosing the Building Blocks….
Continuing from last week, let us continue to discuss on custom vs standard. We will continue to consider a network as a building. There can be many modes of getting the building constructed, let us have a look at the…
What I learned from Mr. Anthony McLachlan at Nortel – Part 2
Continuing from last week, today I will share another lesson from Anthony, during my days at Nortel. So, What do you really want to do? One day during a review meeting, with Anthony, one of the team members was droning…
Special vs Custom vs Standard? What is the right strategy?
Let us continue the discussion from last week and build on the theme of Hardware vs Software. The equipment are just the building blocks for a network and the end goal is to deliver services. Services have a “retail” connotation…