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I saw a brilliant guy recruited from Microsoft to Cisco in order to improve software development agility. Cisco's immune system neutralized and ejected him less than 2 years later. Same thing will happen to this poor dude, and Intel will continue as if nothing needs changing.

There's a reason companies rarely reach 100 years old: they commit suicide.

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This. Jim Keller was hired into an even higher position than this guy and he left in less than two years. Jim Keller was hired in to fix Intel's terrible design methodology and mindset and his own organization responded to reject him. It was actually quite amazing to see all the middle management stop their own internecine political warfare to respond to the Keller threat.

I’m curious what BU this was and what era. Companies like Cisco have a lot of history hiring outsiders and then disempowering them, but to balance that the ones they usually hire aren’t actually any good. There’s a lot of C-team Google hires in companies like Cisco that weren’t good to begin with.

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