Still more about the Microsoft reorganization
WinInfo | at | by Mike
What Microsoft really needs is someone like Steve Jobs, whose mesmerizing on-stage appearances for Apple have done as much to turn around the company in recent years as its products have. Microsoft doesn't really have a Steve Jobs, and although some people might point to Ballmer as a possible comparison, the company has been (wrongly, in my opinion) trying to rein him in over the past few years. But Ballmer is all sound and fury, and Jobs is more about eloquence and style. The only person I know at Microsoft who fits this bill is Hillel Cooperman. My advice is to put the truly innovative and creative people in front of audiences to communicate strategy and put the businessmen behind the scenes, where they belong. Droning corporate executives aren't inspirational or interesting.