'Instead of me managing my people, they manage me...'

摘要

With more than twenty-five years of experience in the telecom industry, Rahul Saxena, managing director, Verizon Data Services India, and senior VP, Verizon Europe is an industry veteran and has worked in various departments from operations to business development and strategic planning. During the last twenty-three years with Bell Atlantic/Verizon, he has played key roles in start-up operations in Czech and Slovak Republics and international business development in Venezuela, Greece, Portugal, Denmark, Indonesia, and Korea. Saxena is one of the founders of Vodafone-Italy (Omnitel), a Verizon joint venture with Vodafone in GSM wireless, and is a director on its Board since 2000. Prior to this, he has held several leadership positions with various Verizon group companies and has led Verizon's mobile and wireline operations in Europe. In a free-wheeling interview he talks about his leadership style and his likes and dislikes among other things.