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Microsoft Narrows Down CEO Shortlist: Elop, Mulally, Bates, Nadella In Mix
rjmarvin writes "Sources have confirmed that Microsoft has narrowed down its search for its next CEO to five external candidates and at least two internal candidates. Rumored frontrunner Stephen Elop, former Nokia CEO, and Ford Motor CEO Alan Mulally are reportedly in contention, along with Microsoft's Skype head Tony Bates and their cloud and enterprise chief Satya Nadella. The other external candidates who've emerged from the approximately 40 rumored names swirling around since August have not yet been revealed."
Those that know aren't talking. And those that are talking don't know.
Sources. Ha!
yup...agree...
Elop is listed as an 'outside' candidate, but he was essentially a mole for M$ for his whole debacle at Nokia. He went in, ran that company into the ground...now he gets his reward.
Watching M$ die its weird death is sort of like the scene in Blade Runner when Pris is killed and does that awesome android freak out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e9t5ikxjAQ4
Thank you Dave Raggett
Past success or failure is a poor indicator of future performance for a CEO.
Whatever challenges the CEO overcame in the past are not likely to be the challenge of the future. A new company in a new year means a whole new ball game.
As for failures, I can point to some very successful CEOs (including Steve Jobs) where they learned from their failures. For Elop you also needed to know that Nokia was a sinking ship. It would have taken somebody extraordinary to turn Nokia around.
As a side note Alan Mulally is an interesting name. Most people figured a Boeing manager could not turn around a car company around but he did.
So someone who knows how to manufacture physical products automagically knows how to make software? Is this part of the powers of the Holy Snake Oil that MBAs are anointed with upon graduation?
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
Nokia was tanking long before Elop, it just became much more visible during his reign. And look at what he actually accomplished. Pre-Elop Nokia had ALL divisions losing money. He has now left, and the mapping division is in the black. Their network infrastructure is in the black. Nokia could not make a good run with the phone and device portion, which he was able to sell, giving Nokia enough cash to pay off many restructuring debts. That is actually not a bad record.
He considered android and chose not to use it, there is a difference. You could say it may have worked out well for Nokia had they picked android. Then again look at who tried Android: Dell, HTC, Samsung, LG, Motorola, Lenovo, etc. The only one that can safely say they did well with the android platform is Samsung. That is one winner and most of the other companies were destroyed in the process. The android market was a knife fight, it is not insane to decide not to participate in it.
>Former Ford CEO - hey at least Ford has been doing well. But does this guy know a wheel from a mouse?
Well, let's see:
Yeah, probably.
But apple and google were not kicking their ass. The truth is that until Elop took over, Nokia's smartphone division not only had more marketshare, it was growing faster than either Apple or Android. Elop destroyed that http://seekingalpha.com/article/916271-how-stephen-elop-destroyed-nokia
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