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MOTO'S WARRIOR; Blunt and brilliant, she's Ed Zander's best hope for catching Nokia in the world cell phone race.(Edward Zander)
Crain's Chicago Business, March, 2006 by Johnsson, Julie
Byline: JULIE JOHNSSON Padmasree Warrior made her name at Motorola Inc. by killing a business she headed. Ms. Warrior was put in charge of a semiconductor offshoot believed to have billion-dollar potential in 2001. But she quickly realized the technology would never be ready for prime time.
She had to break the news to Chris Galvin, then Motorola's CEO. "It was very hard . . . to tell people at the top of the organization things aren't going to work,'' she recalls. But rather than derailing her career, her candor scored points with Mr. Galvin, who named her chief technology officer months later. Today, Ms. Warrior leads a 20,000-plus-engineer force that's challenging archrival Nokia Corp. for dominance of the emerging markets where most of the...
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