Re: [TLUG]: Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

[James Mcintosh]

The article (or excerpt of the article) mentions "stack ranking", the compelled rating of employees, and its harmful effects.
 
I doubt that this process is unique to Microsoft.
 
I think that I first heard of it about Wang, and business periodicals praised it back when Wang seemed to have potential.
 
In terms of technology, their operating system was superior to IBM's DOS/VSE and MVS, and their COBOL was superior to IBM's COBOL and CICS.
 
James E. McIntosh
JamesEMcIntosh-Iimme/3Z544 at public.gmane.orgm
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Subject: [TLUG]: Re: [TLUG]: Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

| From: Stephen <stephen-d-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>

| This is a link to an article in the current issue if Vanity fair:
| 
| http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer.print

Actually it is a link to a teaser for an article.  I think you have to
buy the paper copy to read it.  But maybe there is a way you can pay
to read an electronic copy.  Or maybe you can wait for some
cooling-off period and then the article will appear online.

In that teaser was a link to an excerpt of Paul Allen's memoir.  I
thought that was interesting.  The excerpt is an article from the May
issue.
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