Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
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Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#2There does seem to be a lot of own goals going on at Microsoft at the moment. But then again, some of the "talent" that has left is still making those own-goals.
Stephen Elop went to Nokia, and instead of using the one thing that I believe could have competed in the market - Maemo and then Meego - was dropped in favour of Microsoft's operating system. That's an own goal, if ever I've seen one.
So IMO, it's not really just Balmer who is at fault here, there seems to have been quite a lot of problems with even the executives leaving the company.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#3M$ is a festering money hub of individuals with indy goals reeking to create beyond the bounds.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#4That site is awful. Almost all links are broken.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#5I am not sure why this is considered news. Guess just because this guy went on the record to state the obvious?
Every large company develops internal politics with various degrees of harm to itself and its performance. If the business is led by a non-founder, non-technical, non-performing CEO it is a given that he will always feel like an insecure usurper/impostor more concerned about protecting their job from rivals than actually leading.
This is yet another data point in support of Andressen Horowitz's thesis about backing founding CEOs. I might add that's also a strike against promoting a head of sales to CEO.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#6Ballmer probably knows it's his last executive position he'll ever get in this industry. So he's squeezing as much out of it as he can. Or he's just a fanboy of the "old Microsoft."
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#7Never happened before in any other company.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#8Probably throws chairs at them...
To be serious, this is normal in most corporates. It starts when you let the MBA* with the personality disorder in, you're fucked. I've watched three companies fall at the hands of such people.
* This is not true of all MBAs, but I seem to see a trend where there are more borderline psychopaths.
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#9Ballmer probably knows it's his last executive position he'll ever get in this industry. So he's squeezing as much out of it as he can. Or he's just a fanboy of the "old Microsoft."
His net worth is $15.7 billion[1] so I doubt he's concerned about "squeezing as much out of it as he can".
Re: Former Microsoft executive says Ballmer culls internal rivals to retain power
#10I am not sure why this is considered news. Guess just because this guy went on the record to state the obvious? Every large company develops internal politics with various degrees of harm to itself and its performance. If the business is led by a non-founder, non-technical, non-performing CEO it is a given that he will always feel like an insecure usurper/impostor more concerned about protecting their job from rivals…
> I am not sure why this is considered news.