In 1984, he was picked to run Houston Natural Gas and engineered a merger with a rivalfirm in Nebraska to create Enron, which owned the first coast-to-coast pipeline network.
This behavior meant that by the time a rivalfirm proved that a new market was viable, Motorola would be two years behind the competition and forever a distant follower.
If you were a successful broker on Wall Street in 2008 and 2009 your employer likely threw wads of cash your way to keep you from fleeing to a rivalfirm.