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Is Steve Ballmer an effective CEO?

Steve Ballmer has been the CEO of Microsoft since Bill Gates left the position in January 2000. Has he done a better job than anyone else Microsoft could have hired for the position?

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Under a Ballmer-led administration, expect more of the same. Specifically, a general lack of accountability and urgency within the senior management ranks, a myopic strategic focus on protecting the cash cows while paradoxically paying inadequate attention to the actual products themselves, a related failure to spot new trends and get out in front of them (invariably resulting in a desperate, expensive, and often unsuccessful attempt to play catch up later), a staggering annual R&D...
11 Jun 2008    Source



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