Business is a game of strategy.
With proper planning, a company can control the board. Make a wrong move, and the game may be over. As Network World examines the top 200 network companies, we behold the knights of the boardroom, the talented individuals who mold corporate strategy into a weighted die, rolling winning numbers on command. Mass. Dagres, a board member of six IT companies, recalls the sale last April of local exchange carrier XCom Technologies to Level 3 Communications. He was on XCom's board, and things were going well when Level 3 offered to buy.