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for ballmer s habit of coming out to an inspirational song may i suggest dancing in the street because that s what my heart is playing right now and of course we need an exit song too something that perhaps begins with na na na na na na na na hey hey hey posted by who da punk at friday august 23 2013 613 comments monday november 12 2012 a microsoft without sinofsky well i can t believe it microsoft announces leadership changes to drive next wave of products people walking the hallways tonight at work certainly can t believe it i can t believe it working at a microsoft without sinofsky inconceivable but if you re going to leave on a high note it doesn t get much better mr sinofsky got a standing ovation from the windows team during the company meeting for all that he s done to take them on a multi year journey to create windows 7 and then hit the big multi division reset button for windows 8 he truly demonstrated technical leadership at its best and i don t believe his departure rules him out at all for microsoft ceo in fact i think if he stays in tech and becomes ceo of another company it makes him an even more obvious choice to come back to microsoft as its leader meanwhile ms larson green best of luck following this act mini microsoft microsoft comments posted by who da punk at monday november 12 2012 307 comments thursday july 19 2012 microsoft fy12q4 results plus that lost decade thing quarterly results time quarterly post time what kind of questions do you have the financials and what s ahead for microsoft for me first of all that damn browser is at again if billions of dollars go towards amending ie then that pretty much undoes all the good work that sinofsky has been weaving post consent decree there is a certain amount of swaggering happening on the old safeco campus oy financial impact of the browser choice screen screw up sure enough the exclusion of being able to install an alternative browser on win8 rt a very purposeful name is getting anti trust attention other items in motion okay so much for all that cash spent on aquantive how do the other acquisition investments shape up expected surface unit sells in next year availability and if you ve used win8 on arm which are the preferred deities we should be praying to make it actually fast and fluid poor nokia microsoft s lost decade so you know that happened steveb has often remarked on how he ignores the stock price of microsoft and doesn t know what it takes to move it upward those financial types are just too darn inscrutable he just focuses on doing his job the stock has been flat and microsoft millionaire phenomena is a distant memory it s a historical mind trip to read a book like microsoft in the mirror and discover that most microsofties then were hesitant to admit they worked at microsoft out of the resulting discomfort of everyone expecting them to be rich oh to have such an awkward problem like that while microsoft is on the edge of rolling success after success financial and technical in windows 8 office 15 windows phone 8 yeah yeah and xbox there s a level of white washing to emphatically focus on what we currently have despite ourselves vista happened kin happened billions have been sunk into the success that is xbox including funding the fall out of a rushed technical designs aquantive happened six billion dollars in shareholder value gone poof without so much a ta da and now it appears the eu has the opportunity to return to the microsoft atm for millions or billions of usd due to the browser choice screen mysteriously disappearing from win7 sp1 i guess the testers were too busy fixing their cranky automation to notice i thought perhaps this year s steveb company meeting yeaaaaah victory dance song should be i m still standing but now maybe oops i did it again is more appropriate with you know a little pinky pointed to the corner of the mouth vanity fair has been making news with their lost decade piece i really hoped to find something new and salacious but it wasn t much more than what you d find written here between the posts and the many passionate thoughtful comments from smart good looking people like you perhaps post article the author kurt eichenwald will get some good insider loving and have a more revealing follow up stack ranking comes up as one of the reasons microsoft does so poorly due to the internal competition and lack of cooperation it inspires impacting strategy and results remember the org chart cartoon from earlier microsoft was depicted as hierarchical organizations with handguns pointed at one another reality myth culture like some low brow ferrengi scavenger leadership adopted stack ranking without really trying to think through their own system or realize that stack ranking is meant for organizations in transition layoffs downsizing vs a constant twice a year grind that goes on and on and on snippet from the above link the biggest mistake is to use it forever if you re going to do forced ranking look at it as a short term three five year thing do it annually but don t do it forever by the end of four or five years you ve gotten all the value he says microsoft s particular implementation of stack ranking has been used and under fire for way more than five years in 2005 hr grad student stephen gall published a scathing paper on it for walden university just when we finish the annual review and calibration it s time to update your commitments and then it s mid year check in followed by annual again it s a hamster wheel spinning above sulfur enriched coals i don t know about you but my annual assessment if printed before i provided any of my comments would go on for six pages six pages of detailed commitments wtf is all i can say to the detailed craziness our review system has evolved into the stakes behind our stack ranking changed radically with the last year s iteration in one way it s good we re just talking about results what did the person do what did they accomplish then comes ordering people and goodness forbid if you ve gotten promoted recently because most likely it s congratulations and welcome to the bottom of the barrel and it certainly does re enforce the peter principle where you have people very valued people reach the peak of their career usually a high place and they discover the plateau can be a dispiriting place why does this matter a healthy dynamic company needs talented employees and most everyone has talent to some degree not just the 1s and 2s to be able to flow around the company based on opportunity and need what you end up with are the 1s and 2s being easily mobile the 3s having some potential and the 4s and 5s being locked out of groups being interested in them unless you have a very enlightened or desperate hiring manager so what did you just do made it so that the people on top are the ones that can leave your org and everyone else is sort of stuck and disillusioned goldstars might be gone but in its place we now have the 1 review ranking for the top of the top so yes it s really 1 1 2 3 4 5 it is a superstar culture or at least a one star culture we continue to celebrate the hero contributor and team work is left for a poll question and do savvy people try to game the system of course they do except that it s called adjusting to the reality of the situation i know reports that chat up their aunt and uncles peers to their manager when they have good news to share about themselves i know backstabbers and i know exceptionally naive backstabbers who for some reason think fragging their manager will help their career out which perplexes me to no end especially when the manager has been their champion and their report doesn t even understand what their manager does and now i ve got a broken trust relationship i d love to know what new system lisab came up with i think it deserves to be revealed rumor is that she pushed this with ballmer and there was no way he was going to let go of neutron jack s stack ranking and after that supposed loss lisab sort of disengaged is she really the most universally hated executive i don t know about that but she certainly slipped away from being loved thousands of employees used to cheer for her now there s a thought exercise being spread out over the past year that getting a 3 is like getting an a that a 3 is good yeah that s the ticket problem is 2 is better and 1 is way better and that 3 comes with a message that your peers are better than you well your results so the first question everyone is going to ask is what does it take to get a 2 or a 1 one thing the vanity fair article touched on is post stock options being the path to riches and reward everyone is focused on getting a good review i d say beyond that you have people at the top of principal doing what it takes to make partner you see some pretty odd short term crap happening out of l67 individuals desperate to break through sometimes to the detriment of the product and group and i don t see an end in sight it s going to take ballmer leaving for a new review system to have a chance in the meantime we re comforted by well other companies do it too like that class of excuse works for every teenager in the world microsoft is unique and its employee experience should be unique and enriching both for the bank account and for the people we hire and that we should continue to grow and enlighten and yes if you don t like it you can turn in that blue badge and hit the road for those of you who have and have a review system that you like far better i d love to hear well read your perspective mini microsoft microsoft msft comments posted by who da punk at thursday july 19 2012 170 comments thursday april 19 2012 microsoft fy12q3 results isn t this the best time ever to be in tech i love it and i love profits too i know i just lost half of you there but it s amazing the amount of competition and change and adoption makes me nothing but giddy if you re a playstation fan boy then you have to at least love the competition xbox brings to make ps better and same for xbox same for apple google and microsoft the competition between ios android and windows is awesome especially if you re a developer or service being wooed day in and day out inside microsoft we ll constantly flagellate ourselves about how other competitors are leapfrogging us but it s good to see starting way back when i said microsoft has turned the corner the amount of collaborative integration that has happened to make the whole far greater than the sum of the parts a snippet from that post from near three years ago redemption takes a while time is needed to allow perception to change and to re earn trust and respect windows 7 re earned trust and respect windows 8 is a big turning point it s not perfect it s no true ipad compete story it s different however it would not have existed without the ipad thank you apple rip steve it s a big reboot of the windows developer story in a way that is fresh and semi consistent visually across phone and xbox and slowly across our web properties too our developer story is still concerning windows 8 is blazing it s own trail which is different than wp and different than xbox for now it s not that i want to write the same app between all the platforms but i do want no friction traversal for a dev to start on one have a great idea and switch over and start on the other without muttering wtf this is completely different we have a chance to get there and that vision needs to be revealed soon consistency is one thing quality is another i was reading that hbr article about steve jobs leadership lessons and the first thing i thought about it steve jobs would not have let almost any of those new xbox apps ship he would have torn them to pieces i think this is a case where we so desperately wanted out partners to support the new metro that we gave in to mediocrity and once it s there it s there for good this is where we really need to clamp down or what is prime real estate is going to turn into a flea market so anyway how are we doing i d say we re on the upswing with endless challenges we turned the corner and did indeed manage to get out of the bad side of town profits are up people are writing appreciative come back articles and i really don t have much of an ax to grind well except for the premier software company being completely incapable of creating an enlightened review model let alone lately keep some key young talent go go microsoft some links on today s earnings microsoft beats estimates as most divisions see growth geekwire microsoft s earnings surpass expectations nytimes com microsoft q3 2012 by the numbers 17b revenue 60 cents eps microsoft turns in a strong quarter microsoft cnet news update microsoft exceeds analysts estimates with 17 41 billion 3q revenue microsoft pri0 the seattle times see you next quarter mini microsoft microsoft msft comments posted by who da punk at thursday april 19 2012 64 comments thursday january 19 2012 microsoft fy12q2 results fiscal results microsoft investor relations earnings release fy12 q2 my favorite tech bloggers todd bishop microsoft beats estimates even as windows profits fall 11 geekwire mary jo foley windows drops to no 3 cash cow status in microsoft latest quarter zdnet ina fried slower windows sales dent microsoft earnings ina fried news allthingsd jay greene microsoft earnings meet expectations as windows sales dip microsoft cnet news joe wilcox microsoft q2 2012 by the numbers windows revenue falls 6 sorta looks like there s a trend with reduced pc sales impacting windows it will be interesting a year from now to see given that it s released for holiday 2012 and all if we see windows 8 reversing the trend of course the economy could just be better by then end of the obligatory quarterly post briefly what s going on here well obviously not much the only thing i ve felt an urge to write about recently is microsoft s curiously messed up media strategy when it comes to video and music zune music is on its deathbed media center moved back to windows and that basically put it on indifferent life support microsoft breaking from dolby in windows 8 means a lot of stuff that used to work out of the box won t but maybe the mess is simply a chaotic churn of local media assets being deprecated for services and for xbox to start replacing media pcs i m none to happy but i m one of those dinosaur s who loves the dickens out of his media center setup that small missive aside i ve avoided putting the mini cap on just because of dealing with the constant drone of negativity yeah yeah i made that bed and the chickens are coming home to roost in it or something like that comment moderation right now is a necessity and one big bumming drag so i stopped sorry you 120 pending comments once google blogger has native support for community influenced commenting just voting up and down that s all i want i ll be more interested in resuming posts for now it s gotta be something major for ...