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> And the Ford CEO, while being extremely good, seems similar to bringing in Pepsi CEO John Sculley at Apple back in the day, wrong domain. A counter point to
by trimbo 13y ago
> And the Ford CEO, while being extremely good, seems similar to bringing in Pepsi CEO John Sculley at Apple back in the day, wrong domain.
A counter point to "domain" being critical is Louis Gerstner at IBM. He's widely credited with saving IBM and came from Nabisco.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_V._Gerstner,_Jr.
- drawkbox 13y agoMicrosoft was started to not be IBM, if they want to be IBM for sure they can bring in a guy like that. If they want to compete with Google and Apple, they need engineering/product people, or someone that gets it and has done it. One redeeming quality of Ballmer even though he was a metrics guy was he was there from the beginning and saw the innovation modes, even he couldn't keep it on track and missed. So yes these guys are good CEO's quarterly, but they might miss the big waves of change simply because they are good metrics guys/quarterly guys. Nabisco and IBM are quarterly focused companies first. IBM is doing some fun stuff with Watson but I am afraid a CEO like that will turn Microsoft into an IBM or an Oracle. If that is what the shareholders want they might have to, it isn't what developers of the platform want. What does Microsoft need more of now?
- louthy 13y ago> What does Microsoft need more of now? Developers, Developers, Developers...