Microsoft
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Looking Ahead
With the initial frenzy around the great Ballmer succession sweepstakes slowing down, lets look ahead at how things may play out: Timing I can’t believe this will take 12 months to resolve or that the company can afford to let it drag on that long. If the board can’t find a new CEO in three…
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Filling Big Shoes
via Flickr There is a lesson in the all-around thrashing Steve Ballmer has received in recent days about filling the shoes of the greats: don’t. Anyone who succeeds one of the greats -– be it Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Jack Welch, Peter Lynch, Warren Buffett, Michael Jordan or Peter the Great -– is likely…
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A Handicapper’s Guide
via Flickr With the announcement that SteveB will depart within the year, there is all kinds of speculation about his successor, much of it ranging between vapid and nutty. There are three classes of candidate: Internal Candidates While people are having fun going through every headshot of the Senior Leadership Team as a possible CEO…