Download e-book for iPad: THE RED THREAD: My Fortunate Life in Telecommunications by H. Brian Thompson

while most folks are requested to call company CEOs, star names spring to mind: Jack Welch, Warren Buffett, invoice Gates and the past due Steve Jobs. yet what concerning the different 5,000+ leaders of public businesses? who're they, and why do not we pay attention approximately them? those women and men run businesses daily - day in and trip. a few of them are millionaires, yet many are usually not. they maintain a low profile, transforming into their businesses, development shareholder price and doing the correct issues for his or her staff. H. Brian Thompson is this kind of humans. Son of an Irish immigrant hard work chief, Thompson epitomizes America's actual CEOs. he is not flashy, and, not like many famous person CEOs, he admits to successes and screw ups. He comes from modest ability, and nonetheless considers himself a operating one that builds wealthy businesses, offers employment and needs to depart a legacy for his neighborhood and his relations. he is a moral one that does not think that enterprise is simply approximately funds yet aiding humans in attaining targets they suggestion have been not possible. regardless of what many american citizens might think, so much CEOs are like Thompson. they're good leaders who run their businesses and not using a lot of pomp and spectacle. Thompson and his friends are the real pillars of the yank financial system who've made the USA the industrial envy of the realm. The purple Thread is the company memoir of 1 of America's actual CEOs. ============================= H. Brian Thompson is likely one of the world's so much profitable telecommunications leaders, whose tenure has spanned from the beginning of the U.S.'s aggressive cell to trendy web attached international. A former Chairman of Comsat overseas, Thompson served as Chairman and CEO of LCI overseas, Inc., Non-Executive Chairman of Telecom Eireann, the Irish mobilephone corporation, vp of Qwest and govt vice chairman of MCI Communications company. as well as serving on numerous forums of administrators, he's a former Chairman of CompTel, Co-Chairman of the worldwide info Infrastructure fee and a member of the Irish top Minister's Ireland-America monetary Advisory Board. at present, he's govt Chairman of GTT, the most desirable cloud community supplier to the world.