It seems the underlying theme of the piece, at least the underlying theme that can be gleaned from the portions of the article currently available, is that Microsoft’s Lost Decade was filled with major management blunders that have severely diminished the company’s importance. One of my close friends spent almost a decade trying to move into a more fast-paced groups at MS, but couldn’t because higher-ranked employees always got preferential treatment, whether they were the best candidate for the position or not. It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies.” On top of that, stack ranking also makes it very difficult, even for above-average employees at Microsoft, to advance or join groups they may be more passionate about. This piece also goes on to say, “If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review. I will say, however, that what I have seen of the piece thus far paints an incomplete picture of Microsoft and sensationalizes some issues common to highly-successful corporations. RELATED: Microsoft has become everything it ‘despised,’ insiders tell Vanity Fairįirst off, I must be clear that I have not had the opportunity to read the piece in its entirety yet as such, it would be unfair to draw any solid conclusions at this point. A number of prominent journalists have been given a chance to read and comment on the full article before it hits newsstands, and as you may suspect, the blogosphere is already full of opinions. The tech community is abuzz in anticipation of an article set to be published in the August issue of Vanity Fair titled, “Microsoft’s Lost Decade.” The magazine has published a preview of the piece on its website with the much more pointed title “Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant,” if you’d like to check it out.
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