Telstra's people would "catch the vision or catch the bus", he said at his inaugural press conference in Melbourne last month. It was said calmly and amiably, but the message was clear. Inevitably the remark led to speculation about what was likely to happen on Telstra's poop deck once the new captain was piped aboard. Speculation, and it is no more than that, has ranged from wholesale beheading to executive surgery.