[Am-info] More on Mr Belluzzo

[Joe Moore]

On Thu, Apr 04, 2002 at 09:38:44PM -0500, Paul Rickard wrote:
> ========== On 2002.04.04 12:43 PM, Joe Moore typed: ============
> >How can these products be "inseparable" if they are created by separate
> >business units?  If Microsoft is trying to create independant business
> >units, how can breaking the company up along similar lines really hurt
> >the business, except that each would have to report its profitablility
> >separately?
> 
>     Microsoft's organizational structure has always been for appearances 
> only. People get promoted, moved around, divisions are created and 
> destroyed. All on a weekly basis. I think things are operated this way: 
> who ever Steve and Bill tell to do something this week do it. If they're 
> told to do something else the next week, they do something else. If Jim 
> from MSN has a Windows idea, he can contribute some to Windows. The only 
> exception to this rule appears to be outlying units like the Mac Business 
> Group.

Well, it would appear that Microsoft is setting up very nice, self-selected
lines that the states could use to break up the company (too bad they're
not pursuing this remedy)

--Joe