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Of all the things that Ballmer was wrong about... I guess this is one of them.
by cbanek 2y ago
Of all the things that Ballmer was wrong about... I guess this is one of them.
- jimt1234 2y agoMy personal fav: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rCszxibClKE https://www.youtube.com/shorts/rCszxibClKE
- cbanek 2y agoMy favorite Ballmer practice is stack ranking. It completely screwed up the entire company. I worked on Windows Mobile at the time the iPhone came out. We were all shitting ourselves.
- Varriount 2y agoOof, that does not sound like a strategy that culminates a positive work atmosphere.
- muststopmyths 2y agoStack ranking existed at MSFT before Ballmer became CEO, i.e., when billg was CEO. It was a practice that Jack Welch brought into the corporate world and Microsoft was just guilty of following what were thought to be best practices at the time. Source: worked at Microsoft before Windows Mobile was a thing. As an aside, Windows Phone was my favorite phone OS and Ballmer seemed like the one who actually cared about it a lot.
- RaftPeople 2y ago> best practices Tangent: I love that phrase. Anytime I hear someone make that statement I think about the 9,000 things that have been considered "best practice" until we actually understood that they weren't even "good practice". It gets thrown around as if it's been studied and confirmed when in reality it means "a bunch of people are doing it"
- WalterBright 2y agoBallmer was right about betting on Microsoft.
- fuzzfactor 2y agoAgree, but Microsoft was wrong about betting on him.
- sph 2y agoShow us what you have been wrong about so we might judge you.
- glimshe 2y agoI'd love to be wrong like Ballmer. The net balance of his decisions were billions of dollars.
- lucianbr 2y agoThe net balance of his decisions, his circumstances, his random events and who knows what else. Please please stop with this "if he's rich he must be smart" argument. Please?
- fuzzfactor 2y ago>The net balance of his decisions were billions of dollars. Billions of dollars less than it could have been, not just for Microsoft, but all Windows users combined. If he's rich he must be fortunate, have to find out if he's smart some other way.
- glimshe 2y agoAs long as we stop with "if he's rich it must have been luck alone". Even a lottery winner has to buy a lottery ticket. Ballmer was a top salesman and a notorious workaholic. Of course he needed luck, but I doubt most in his position would have netted the same billions.