Microsoft: is there a lesson in there for everyone?
September 22nd, 2007 • Business, Internet
A long rant by Robert Scoble delves into the lack of fizz from today’s Microsoft.He’s in a position to know: Scoble made his name as Microsoft’s chief blogger, in the process opening up parts of the company that would otherwise have remained secret (and arguably given it an even darker image than it has today).So when he says…
It’s been more than a year now since I left Microsoft. I really expected Ray Ozzie to come out and do lots of cool stuff for the Internet. But what did we get? A new design on live.com? Please.
Why doesn’t Microsoft get the love? « Scobleizer…it’s probably worth taking heed. In particular, he suggests that the senior team at Redmond could do worse than study Bungie, the development team behind the Halo franchise.By the time I’d reached the end of the post, my mind had switched to analysing our own successes - what were the ingredients that made things fly? First stab:
- Clarity: a single sheet that captures a market and need in under three paragraphs
- Chemistry: a group of people that compensate for each others’ failings, and in doing so form a greater whole
- Freedom: the space for that team to push it as far as it will go
- Confidence: managerial structures and support that exude faith
There are probably a thousand and one other factors, but every winner I’ve been lucky enough to have stood next to has ticked all three of those boxes.
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