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What I Learned Working for Steve Ballmer

141 点作者 dbattaglia将近 7 年前

11 条评论

achow将近 7 年前
Excerpts from infamous mini-msft blog (in 2005 another msft employee venting anonymously):<p>&quot;I mean, what has he done or not done that is impacting the stock?&quot;<p>- along with Gates, made decisions that resulted in the company being found guilty of breaking the law twice(and counting)resulting in fines, restrictions...<p>- along with Gates, invested over $10B of cash in failed telecom investments that ended up being written off<p>- failed to make any meaningful investments at the bottom of the market crash when numerous companies were available for cheap..<p>- invested $10B&#x27;s in various &quot;emerging&quot; businesses that even years later represent only about 10% of MSFT&#x27;s revenue, aren&#x27;t growing at even 10%..<p>- approved the onerous Licensing 6 program when many companies were hurting economically thereby pissing off a good portion of our customers and fueling the move to Open Source.<p>- has been at the helm as MSFT failed to take security seriously and then has had to drop everything to play catch up, missed the paid search move and had to play catch up, missed the move to web services and had to play catch up, missed the portable music wave and had to play catch up, let IE stagnate and had to play catch up, and now seemingly can&#x27;t ship any major product on time even stripped of formerly core features (can you say Longhorn, CRM, SQL, VS, etc. etc. etc?).<p>Continued...<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimsft.blogspot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;03&#x2F;old-school-competencies.html#c111169237226667511" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;minimsft.blogspot.com&#x2F;2005&#x2F;03&#x2F;old-school-competencies...</a>
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jaclaz将近 7 年前
This strikes me as &quot;odd&quot;:<p>&gt;Then he looked up, waited for a pause in the presentation, and said in a soft voice: “This number is wrong!”<p>&gt;...<p>&gt;Any other executive would have assumed his finance people could write Excel formulas and delegated the task.<p>All the (successful) executives I ever dealt with have a sort of &quot;sense&quot; for numbers, and surely do not really-really trust their finance people writing Excel formulas, or - better - they trust them as long as the results are reasonable and don&#x27;t raise this &quot;number sense&quot; alarm.
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rimher将近 7 年前
Very interesting read! He might&#x27;ve made some big mistakes during his tenure, but if Microsoft&#x27;s still there it&#x27;s also his merit
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kelukelugames将近 7 年前
I can&#x27;t wait for Ballmer to become the lovable, goofy NBA owner instead of be remembered as the guy who dragged down Microsoft.
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majani将近 7 年前
He raises a good point about the law of large numbers. When your core business is doing $75b and has 95% market share, it&#x27;s near impossible to find other lines of business to complement that core in a meaningful way. I&#x27;d go as far as to say it&#x27;s illogical to expect crazy growth or innovation at such a point.
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Waterluvian将近 7 年前
&quot;A leader falls on his sword for his team if and when needed.&quot;<p>I like this. It also reminded me of a lesson I learned when reading Maj. Richard Winters&#x27; memoirs: a good leader leads from the front. First one in, last one out.
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Zigurd将近 7 年前
The Nokia fiasco is a big blot on Ballmer&#x27;s record. For a good reason: It shows the consequences of great arrogance. Nokia&#x27;s marching orders were to make Windows Phone a success, and not to dilute that mission with a drop of alternative products. Just because he could, he took one of the finest companies on the planet and trashed it with a doomed strategy, at a cost of tens of billions in foregone value to his own shareholders and Nokia&#x27;s employees. He took that much money, put it in a pile, lit it on fire and blocked the fire brigades, whether for vanity or for a weakly articulated strategy.
pappaSsmurf将近 7 年前
laughed at the notion that apple would ever be able to make a serious mobile phone<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;ballmer-iphone-quote-explained&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bgr.com&#x2F;2016&#x2F;11&#x2F;04&#x2F;ballmer-iphone-quote-explained&#x2F;</a><p>edit: added the word &#x27;serious&#x27;
letientai299将近 7 年前
I&#x27;ve just learned that Medium now has a paywall for free member. Are there any other place&#x2F;copy of this article that we can read without the paywall?
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theNewMicrosoft将近 7 年前
No word that he was a psychopath and a Corporate bully, Instead we have a hagiography for Steve.
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timc3将近 7 年前
Interesting read but a pity that the author doesn’t understand the difference between blog and blog post particular as one of his points was attention to detail.<p>If the author is reading this blog is the medium (like magazine or newspaper) and blog post or post is the individual what a blog is what one authors.