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Balmer was a terrible CEO by nearly every measure, but the one that stands out for me is the culture he cultivated where team members would actively undermine one another just for a better performance review.
What other measure is there?
Under his watch MS missed the smartphone boat, waffled between consumer and commercial products, Windows Vista, Bing, stack ranking employees, organizational silos, pushed a know it all mindset (as opposed to a learning mindset), etc.
The next CEO did a lot of cleanup for many years.
Yeah? But how much money did he earn the shareholders? Innovation doesnt matter if your making bank already