My boss was also asked "what will it take?." but after what they have done to him it would take a lot to keep him.
Sadly it seems that while the new leaders have lots of drive and intensity, they have very little understanding of the US telecom market, how to play here or how to make any new money from it. The recent presentations are the best something right out of "The Office".
Lots of buzz-word bingo, but we have no real seriously competitive go-to-market products other than our stellar Wireless and FiOS products. Oath is a really bad, ill-timed bad-joke, and the 'Business' lines have been BSing for years about 'what they will do', but never seem to be able to do despite having an absolute kick-a$$ network to build off of.
So who knows what the future holds? Certainly NO ONE at the company least of all the C-suite.