{"id":2326,"date":"2012-07-16T19:32:50","date_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/blog\/?p=2326"},"modified":"2012-07-16T19:32:52","modified_gmt":"2012-07-16T19:32:52","slug":"steve-balmer-an-illustration-of-his-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/2012\/07\/16\/steve-balmer-an-illustration-of-his-genius\/","title":{"rendered":"Steve Balmer &#8211; An Illustration of his &#8220;Genius&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Listeners of the various podcasts I pop up on from time to time may well know that I&#8217;m far from a fan of Steve Balmer. I didn&#8217;t like Bill Gates because of his hostile business practices, but I (perhaps grudgingly) admired his obvious talents. As CEO, Gates took Microsoft to the very very top. Balmer on the other hand, has always struck me as a rude and short-sighted bully who got to where he is now by being in the right place at the right time more than anything else. I just can&#8217;t see him as a visionary. I&#8217;ve been arguing for a long time that he is steering Microsoft down a dead-end path, and the fine folks over at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbaonline.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">MBAOnline.com<\/a> seem to agree with me. They&#8217;ve put together a great infographic that really drives homes the point. Since a picture says a thousand words, I&#8217;ll leave you with the picture they paint of the Steve Balmer era at Microsoft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbaonline.com\/microsoft-mba\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.mbaonline.com.s3.amazonaws.com\/microsoft-mba.jpg\" alt=\"Microsoft MBA: Over 30 Years of Innovation\" width=\"500\"  border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Created by: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mbaonline.com\/\">MBAOnline.com<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listeners of the various podcasts I pop up on from time to time may well know that I&#8217;m far from a fan of Steve Balmer. I didn&#8217;t like Bill Gates because of his hostile business practices, but I (perhaps grudgingly) admired his obvious talents. As CEO, Gates took Microsoft to the very very top. Balmer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[407],"series":[],"class_list":["post-2326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-tech","tag-humour"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7t9xK-Bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2326"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2328,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2326\/revisions\/2328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2326"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bartbusschots.ie\/s\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=2326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}