Yeah well they acquired Skype and see what a mess that became. Even Windows itself sometimes...
I suppose it depends on which team gets the job?
Yeah well they acquired Skype and see what a mess that became. Even Windows itself sometimes...
I suppose it depends on which team gets the job?
I bet! The number of people in here that think a company with >118,000 employees is always going to make the same tech and design decisions is baffling.
This is actually documented on management literature, with empirical studies and quantitative results.
Would love to read some of these management studies; it sounds intuitive but (as always) it's much easier to grok the bigger picture with concrete examples. Can you point me to some of the literature?
About the microclimates, looks to me that how much of the environment is dictated by the top itself is one of those decisions affected by the environment. No idea how Microsoft is structured.