We decided to keep America connected, meaning we don't disconnect any residential customers.

If you would sit down and think about pure shareholders, you would not do that.

I increased the virtual voluntary for my employees so they can help in these courses on company time.

For us, this is normal. This is what you do for your responsible corporation.

I think we will fast forward very important development like remote education,

telemedicine and things like that that we never thought would be possible.

And that's of course impacts how we're going to work in the future and what type of products we need to have out there.

And I can tell you in two to three to four years from now our shareholders are going to feel that

those decisions that you made for the society are so important today because you can take one bad

decision today in a crisis and that's going to be remembered for years to come if you're ever going to lead.

Now is the time to lead.

That's Hans Vespberg CEO of Verizon. With 120 million customers on its network,

Verizon is among the most central businesses in helping all of us to stay productive,

active and connected during the great lockdown.

This is Bob Safian, host of Master's of Scale Rapid Response.

Hans is Swedish-born, the former chief executive of Erickson and he takes his leadership responsibility

very seriously. You need to rethink everything you've done before Hans says.

To help him find the right answers, he's talking daily to other CEOs, to government leaders,

and in a noontown hall meeting that he's held every day for the past two months to tens of

thousands of his own employees. Hans has gotten the Behemoth Company to pivot quickly,

retraining thousands of jobs and he's opportunistically purchased a video conference business,

Blue Jeans, after seeing booming use of such tools on his network.

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