Motorola Solutions CEO Greg Brown on the “Relief or Regret” Rule

Podcast: The CEO Signal · Semafor Podcasts

Opublikowano: 2026-09-24

“Relief or regret?” That is the question Motorola Solutions Chairman and CEO Greg Brown uses to test consequential decisions. In a candid conversation with Penny Pritzker and Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, Brown explains how nearly two decades of reinvention, activist pressure and private-equity involvement changed the way he leads. Working with activists made him more accountable and pushed him, he says, from thinking “like a manager” to thinking “like an owner.” He is equally open about the moments when that judgment was tested. When Motorola Solutions’ board considered selling the company, Brown told directors: “This is bullshit. And if you want...