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The Poisonous Employee-Ranking System That Helps Explain Microsoft’s Decline
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| Friday, August 23, 2013
| Will Oremus
Posted on 08/25/2013 6:24:11 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
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To: Revolting cat!
Good policy. :’)
Blackberry has recently announced that it may be selling itself (the company), what is that, RIMM? Nokia’s current uptick has been selling Windows phones, but that is why MS has taken second place in Latin America, and is outselling Blackberry worldwide. :’)
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:02:35 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: SamAdams76
The iPad saw a slump in sales, because buyers are waiting for the new model; instead of 19 million, ‘only’ 14 million were sold. :’)
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:04:41 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Revolting cat!
from July:
http://www.theverge.com/2013/7/23/4549094/apple-microsoft-google-profit-revenue-margins-q2-2013-chart
...Google’s wealth grew significantly this quarter, but even with revenue and profit growth pegged at around 15.5 percent year-over-year, Wall Street were left cold; revenues and profits fell short of expectations.
Microsoft, on the other hand, was always unlikely to see profits drop year-over-year: last year’s calendar Q2 saw a huge $6.19 billion “goodwill impairment charge” related to its disastrous acquisition of aQuantive. That said, relatively static Windows revenue, despite the launch and continued push of its Windows 8 and Windows RT operating systems, and a $900 million write-off on its Surface RT tablet, gave investors cause for concern.
Apple also had a troubling quarter, with flat revenues and significantly lower profits than this time last year. The company is making far less revenue per device than it has done in the past, and that’s impacting it’s bottom line significantly.
Q2 may have been a difficult quarter, but It’s fair to say that none of the three are really struggling.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:08:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: zeugma
It’s actually a selling point for the new units that the old units retain value and functionality. That’s another hard-learned lesson that finally sank in with Jobs.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:09:30 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: SunkenCiv
Steve Ballmer said one wise thing in an interview with him I read a couple of days ago: “We don’t talk about quarters!”
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:10:32 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: driftdiver
I remember accurately, so, yeah.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:11:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: Revolting cat!
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:13:24 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: adorno
Apple continues to preserve their margins so even though they are losing market share to competitors who are willing to give their "copy cat" products away, they continue to be way ahead in terms of profit dollars.
It is the profit dollars and the cash on hand that will allow Apple to survive the shakeout that typically occurs when an industry is too busy chasing short-term market share over long-term viability.
To: Fightin Whitey
well, I was married 40 years to the same guy.
I am a widow now, but STILL a musician.
So, I guess that is about as happy an ending one could expect in THIS world, anyway. :-)
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:18:32 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: Political Junkie Too
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:20:00 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(It's no coincidence that some "conservatives" echo the hard left.)
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:20:15 PM PDT
by
Revolting cat!
(Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
To: left that other site
At a place I worked, for a time we had "management by consensus". Nothing on the team would be approved unless there was consensus. The women on the group liked this, because they disliked openly making a decision and standing accountable for it. By having all decisions be "group consensus", nobody was really accountable.
This turned into "dictatorship of the most stubborn", where one woman in the group refused to go along with any decision she didn't like. She was eventually fired, but it took a while.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:29:46 PM PDT
by
PapaBear3625
(You don't notice it's a police state until the police come for you.)
To: Seruzawa
While the concept of “Teamwork” is a good one in business, there also should also be a system where excellence is rewarded and incompetence “corrected”.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:29:50 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: SunkenCiv
I blame cubicles. Who can do anything productive in a cubicle?
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:30:31 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Life's short- paddle hard!)
To: Daffynition
Seems like a fair payback to me, why back in the day when we had big monitors............................ :)
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:33:39 PM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Sarah Palin, Mark Levin, Ted Cruz......Nuff said.)
To: SunkenCiv
It’s Really Cooking Along Great, isn’t It? :-)
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:34:43 PM PDT
by
left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: SunkenCiv
Enron did the same thing.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:36:26 PM PDT
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: SamAdams76
Apple continues to preserve their margins so even though they are losing market share
Not true at all.
Apple's margins are lower each passing year, and will continue to go down. That has been apparent in the last few quarterly reports from them.
And, they have also been losing market share, like you said, and that continues to get worse with each month of sales.
Then, there is their stock, where the investors have become increasingly worried about Apple's staying power, and the investors worries are reflected in the much lower market cap which Apple has suffered in the last year. The only uptick they've gotten in the last few months, was from Carl Icahn's statement where he said that Apple's stock was undervalued, but, he didn't bother to explain why he felt that way. Fact is that, other than Icahn, there was nothing new to warrant Apple's uptick in the stock.
Apple is still very profitable, and might be so for another year or two. The only thing I've been saying is that, Apple doesn't have the products and research to make it beyond iPhones and iPads. Once those two products have run their course, Apple is in danger of going back to where they were in the 1990s.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:37:30 PM PDT
by
adorno
(Y)
To: PapaBear3625
There is always someone like that in every group!
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:38:24 PM PDT
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left that other site
(You Shall Know the Truth, and the Truth Shall Set You Free...John 8:32)
To: The Cajun
If I worked in a cubicle.....that would be *me* throwing paper airplanes...I just know it.
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posted on
08/25/2013 1:39:50 PM PDT
by
Daffynition
(Life's short- paddle hard!)
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