People familiar with the company say several executives told Mr. McGinn as long as a year ago that the company needed to drastically cut its financial projections because its newest products weren’t ready yet and sales of older ones were going to decline. “He absolutely rejected” the advice, says one person familiar with the discussion. “He said the market is growing and there’s absolutely no reason why we can’t grow. He was in total denial.” Indeed, in a recent interview, Mr. McGinn said that during Lucent’s spectacular rise to stardom in the years after its spinoff from AT&T, he never gave
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