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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 02:17 PM EDT |
When you're looking for CEO experience, probably with a bias
towards OS development and have ruled out Europe (and
probably Asia because of cultural differences...)...and are
looking for large company experience...there's probably
about 50 people available. (Now, in practice, you'd probably
be better off interviewing 150 people with less specific
experience and picking the one who isn't a fool...but no one
hires that way for some reason - probably mostly CYA.)
Of those 50 people, 'Amazon-like' and 'Google-like' CEOs
would not mesh well with Nokia. (With Nokia, I have a
strong hunch you'd need to be able to work with C-level
performers.) So, you're looking at a pool of 10-12. Of
those 11 people, M$ has the 'advantage' of training you to
deal with a gigantic corporate bureaucracy and considerable
bloating.
Elop being hired really does seem pretty reasonable. Poor
Nokia. I believe that it was a pretty predictable mistake,
overall.
Sadly, every environment creates blind spots. M$ seems to
select for emotional tone deafness. Some people can adapt
and transcend their environments. Elop failed, memorably.
Still, it was probably an ok bet.
Could Elop be a mole? Maybe...but...I'll guess that there's
really too many people involved to ensure secrecy - and the
potential publicity and consequences involved are way too
large to be worth it. Sure, there'll be sneaky business -
but probably along the lines of ensuring a plan B when Elop
fails.
--Erwin[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 16 2012 @ 03:08 PM EDT |
Granted, 12 months isn't that long, either, but don't completely ignore the COO
experience. A COO is normally more than a VP position. Nokia (and Juniper
nowadays) don't have a COO, so the CEO does the COO stuff.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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