Motorola: Give a Warm Welcome to Icahn

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Motorola (MOT Quote) needs Carl Icahn.

I have never seen a company go from aggressive competitor to so-so indifferent player like this, other than what Carly Fiorina did with Hewlett-Packard (HPQ Quote).

On the other hand, I have seen Icahn stir things up in a positive way, and he should be welcomed, Jerry York-like, to Motorola. (York was helping General Motors (GM Quote) to turn around until he quit in frustration because the company stopped listening to him.) ...