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@carnage4life if only they had a visionary leader focused on the metaverse.

@carnage4life Diane’s post pretty much dead-on describes what I’m seeing. It’ll be interesting, in a darkly funny way, to see how things collapse.

@carnage4life I feel the same about Apple. The iPhone was such a huge risk for a company that had just regained it's footing with the iMac and iPod… the poured so much into it. I don't see any visionary leader now…

@carnage4life it’s all about the stock price now. They really lost their shit when MS came out with their AI thing.

@carnage4life it's weird how many similar places there are with lots of technical expertise 'downstairs but a complete lack of leadership or vision 'upstairs' to use these skills. Feels like a global problem, perhaps caused by MBAs/consultants capturing 'upstairs' and not having the technical expertise to be able to imagine what could be possibly done

@carnage4life An underutilized business strategy for a public company is to focus almost exclusively on your cash cow, don't get bigger than you need to do so, and instead return all the excess income to the shareholders via dividends and buybacks

@carnage4life > happens to own a money printer

I mean like IBM. And like ibm they’ll be fine, fsvo fine

@carnage4life Google didn't lose its way, they attacked the very people who gave it it's characteristic whimsy and exploration. They've been circling the wagons since the walkouts and probably a lot longer than that.

Google has not had an innovative and money making idea in a really long time. That’s why their culture was changed from a primarily engineering led culture to a product manager driven one. Even then the mess continued. You just need to look at the evolution of their chat/calling apps or music apps or any number of the consumer facing ones. Or even the way the price rice of Google cloud services were rolled out. One other change that happened along side the culture change was the increase in the number of levels. They now have a massive bureaucracy. That’s what’s being trimmed in the latest round. Most layoff article were from managers managing fewer than 25 people adding another layer. It seems like the pendulum is swinging the other direction now to create a bit more flatter org. This all happened long before Sundar was CEO though - except for the crazy Covid hiring. He’s uninspiring tbh. But he’s not the only one to blame.

@carnage4life Satya was awesome and transformed Microsoft, but many employees are now feeling betrayed - Satya, who advocated for culture first and against productivity paranoia in hybrid working, laid off 10.000 and promoted so many internal reorgs that employees confidence and motivation are on record lows…

@carnage4life A better leader in Security than Micro$oft