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That's kinda the point I was getting at - some people would pick Ballmer as being a great CEO, others would pick Nadella.
by idoh 10y ago
That's kinda the point I was getting at - some people would pick Ballmer as being a great CEO, others would pick Nadella.
- TheOtherHobbes 10y agoAnd some people would say they're both wrong. Ballmer gets credited with XBox etc, but I always thought MS was doing a lot of spray-and-pray management during the Ballmer years, and there were far more failures than successes. There certainly didn't seem to be any realistic strategy or vision. (I remember going to a trade fair with a huuuge MS stand showing off some kind of library or book management service. That product was dead less than a month later.) Nadella seems to like strategy so much he has a handful running all at the same time. Which is how you get something like "Cloud-first, mobile-first" - which doesn't even make sense. Point being that CEOs are there to signify the existence of leadership[tm], not necessarily to provide it - and markets and investors don't appear to be able to tell the difference.