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To: LindyBill who wrote (96536)	1/24/2005 8:07:39 AM
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If your going to buy a cell phone, don't buy Nokia. Nokia CEO Voices Concern About U.S. Mores Sunday January 23, 10:17 pm ET By Matti Huuhtanen, Associated Press Writer Nokia CEO Jorma Ollila Voices Concern About Moral Values, Rise of Conservatism in the U.S. HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- The head of Nokia -- the world's largest mobile phone maker -- expressed concern Sunday about disintegrating values in society and an apparent resurgence in conservative attitudes in the United States. Nokia's chief executive, Jorma Ollila, said in a rare television interview that the world is living in "an era of selfishness" very different from his childhood days in a small town in central Finland, when family values were of prime importance. "Put in a nicer way, it is an era of individualism. This is a very self-centered period, which also has plenty of good features too because, when understood correctly, it can help you live independently and stand on one's own two feet," Ollila, 54, said in a candid interview broadcast on state-run YLE television. Speaking with Finnish philosopher Esa Saarinen, a personal friend, Ollila said he thinks people are more concerned about individual rights than taking responsibility for their actions and trying to have a positive influence on society. "What I'm worried about is that if this disintegration of values continues and develops further, we'll get a conservative counter-reaction precisely like what has actually happened in the USA," he said. "This ultraconservatism, coupled with the elements of the church ... which, as we well know, has also supported the current (U.S.) administration, is a powerful counter-reaction to a longtime vacuum of values in society," Ollila said. The head of Nokia Corp. seldom grants interviews, and he said little about the company he heads in Sunday's 50 minute broadcast. But he did say the informal atmosphere and opportunity for personnel to develop at Nokia put workers at ease and produced results. "Universal values are important, but we must also have a good result. Otherwise no one enjoys themselves, however high one's ideals are," Ollila said. "We try to make sure that all (our workers) feel good and work together and so that the (Nokia) community becomes quite a cool thing." Ollila called his company an "educational establishment" and said that international surveys show Nokia to be one of the most appreciated companies for giving workers opportunities to learn and develop. Based in Espoo, just outside the Finnish capital, Nokia has sales in 130 countries with some 53,000 employees.