Not many bosses would hold mobile phones against their heads like giant ears. But Ed Zander, the boss of Motorola, is notorious for wisecracking. Doubtless he also made a joke when he told the firm's board that he would step down at the end of the year. Yet it is unlikely that he felt good about the resignation, which was announced on November 30th. He did not achieve what he was hired to do nearly four years ago: fix Motorola's mobile-phone business, which generated two-thirds of the firm's revenues and profits last year. This task will now fall to his successor and number two, Greg Brown.
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