Wait? How long? For his first command decision from his Sh*tty Corporate Culture Handbook? I don't think so. This has fail written all over it.

Light 'em if you got 'em, people; flame away. Guys and gals with pitchforks should stay to the sides.

Well now... It's all this new guys fault!

American denotes United States of America.

For the semantic loving idiots, he's North American but he's Canadian.

Any other lessons are needed today?

I suspect that in a year when nokia is competitive again with symbian4, meego and improved services everybody will say it was the new guy, while in fact it was good ol' OPK .

Me thinks this has nothing to do with "fail". It has more to do with the propping up of current stock price and appeasing stock owners fears.

As stated earlier, even if this guy starts making decisions diametrically opposite to OPK's past directives on day one, most won't see day to day change in operations for 1.5 to 2 years anyway.

Cool, a quasi RIM connection...

All we need now is a picture of this dude wearing Superman's cape while eating an apple and stocks will soar.

I think nokia still has problems executing its vision. As nokia will be transformed to a software company in the near future its probably a good idea to hire a CEO with expertise in software engineering.
This canadian seems to be qualified.

I am really disappointed with the non nokia CEO. My concerns are?

1. This guy has been jumping jobs between varios MNC. What it says is that he is in it for the money and solely money. We need people who are passionate about nokia. Look at texrat.. he is passionate and he works for the good of nokia.... no matter he is paid or not. Similarly there are many good guys in nokia who are extremely passionate about nokia and have a finnish background. For example.. Ansi, Ari, Peter & Qgil come to mind.

2. Also one of the most important factos i like about nokia is thier honesty and modesty. I believe this has something to with thier finnish background. Why get this north american ceo who i believe wont have these traits. I have yet to see any north american company have the same values of modesty and honesty similar to nokia.

3. I read somewhere this guy had a major part to play in the concept of microsoft kin. If that is anyway true... i am gutted. Even the hamster in the lab knew that the kin was going to bomb.... but still microsoft went through with it.

I do understand the importance of having him for increasing the market share in the US... for that he could have been made President of the NA arm of nokia or may be even better head of buisiness.... but the ceo has to be finnish.

I fail to see the difference.

This dude could be ****ing Superman and it wouldn't satisfy anybody simply because he's not Finnish.

The immediate effects of this announcement aren't even going to be seen for the most part. Having a North American based executive could assist in the abysmal (read: total lack of) advertising in the North American markets - the very same places that double digit share has been lost.

Regardless, the whole xenophobia that's going on in this thread reeks of ignorance and intolerance. And it's not like Nokia was doing that damn great (read: view the stock price) to begin with despite putting up world class sales numbers - they are still capable of doing better.

This person might not bring a good thing. This person might be Jorma Ollila's puppet; which... would not be a bad thing. Or this person might do well. And all shades of success and failure in-between. He's not even left Microsoft yet (Sept. 20th) folks.