Craig McCaw is the visionary founder of McCaw Cellular, which was acquired by AT&T in 1993 for $11.5 billion. McCaw saw early on the potential for mobile communications that would free individuals to “roam” as it were, and it can be easily said that his genius forever changed how we live for the much, much better.
A few years before the AT&T acquisition McCaw distributed to his employees a list titled “What We Stand For.” The aphorisms included “Keep It Simple,” “Be Humble,” “Pursue Excellence,” but most notable for the purposes of this piece was his concluding message: “Hire Great People: If you don't surround yourself with great people, you're a turkey.”
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