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Ballmer was actually insightful and philosophical, when he isn’t throwing chairs around?
by blackrock 6y ago
Ballmer was actually insightful and philosophical, when he isn’t throwing chairs around?
- alisonkisk 6y agoHaving a temper doesn't prevent one from being intelligent. Gates and Jobs had famously bad tempers too.
- 495636483 6y agoWas Jobs really that smart? Not sure that's the niche he filled successfully. More like Kinski, talented in some domain... but smart?! Jobs died pretty much by Dunning-Kruger effect, no?
- nkrisc 6y agoPeople can be very intelligent on one area, and not as much in others. There are many scientists who have very high standards for proof and evidence in their professional life, but accept other theories as truth without a shred of evidence in their personal lives.
- 495636483 6y agoSure, but I think it's also easy to conflate success and talent with intelligence. I think many successful scientist are not particularly smart, but rather dilligent and educated; most innovation is not a leap, but a steady incremental progress which may accumulate in a "innovative" product at some point. I don't know much about Jobs, that's why I asked. From what I got, he was rather a charismatic leader with a good intuition, but I wouldn't call those attributes intelligence per se. Is there any evidence for a particular intelligence of his?
- nxmnxm99 6y agoWhat exactly do you consider an evidence of intelligence?
- CamperBob2 6y agoWasn't he the leading advocate of stack ranking at Microsoft, though? That's not particularly insightful or philosophical, it's just lazy management.
- mulmen 6y agoIt's almost like humans are complex creatures...
- robertlagrant 6y agoHe backed the HR lead personally; I think it was their thing.
- qz2 6y agoI think this might have been one of those infinite monkeys moments.
- marcosdumay 6y agoTo be fair, this was nearly universally know for decades by the time he became CEO of MS. He is just not old enough for working in a time this was new.