Takers out yet ?
By my guesstimate -in enclosure , the dearth of talented executives are eligible to respond to the ad . But Steve Ballmer announced his plans to step down , six months later , Microsoft team is not yet ready for an alternative candidate .
Good . After all , we need to update the incoming boss of a company from a zombie-like trance , where 're not talking about a situation . For many years, all the work and mind of its screwups, flush with money and the smart , hard- chargers is loaded with a large technology business . Of course , there is no shortage of great challenges , but it 's not mission impossible . As a side bonus Lou Gerstner of IBM Corporation What is Microsoft doing to get to a place of glory for some ambitious promises to be the C-level .
Or so I thought for a time . Silly me . The process turned out to be very complicated . His last communication from corporate bunker , John Thompson , director of the group leading the search , while the new boss in the current quarter, except that Microsoft would not have anything to say to me .
Executive recruiters when they see the CEO search dragged on , it's wrong , to say that the sign of a succession process . One company failed to develop appropriate internal candidates , or that the message was unprepared and had to start from scratch in its conversations .
" There is no rule of thumb , but the chief executive officer of the searches take three to four months , " Mike Myatt, executive recruiting firm N2growth chief executive officer said . " You have six months from the start and everyone wonders if there 's a problem . "
Microsoft is simply an argument to be made that this is in the process of being sober and thoughtful . One bad decision and there was no sense of urgency in the air as CEO . Hewlett-Packard and plates are moving quickly with the wrong people, there are large errors on Yahoo , keep in mind at the drop .
This continues a long , highly centralized decision-making inside a massive set of corporate dysfunction risk Ballmer announced a companywide reorganization Keep in mind that last July . A month later , he announced to leave . If you do not like what's happening inside the new boss coming up , why can not it wait ?
" My guess is there is a great interest in the work , " Neil Sims , a partner at executive recruiting firm Boyden said . " Whether or not the right people , is a very difficult decision . "
Following in the footsteps
That 's the rub . To people familiar with Microsoft's lack of progress is still deeply divided on the basis of what a chief executive officer , according to a team say. Maybe even consumer business sales - after a couple of years before turning the keys on a groomed successor Alan Mulally of Ford , a Fortune 500 and make a few changes to the system that would have come with a high protection . The idea is to double the share price a year - out of the Microsoft group of members of a company to reduce costs and would like nothing more than to Microsoft .