Leadership and strategy: what decisions does the boss of Microsoft make?
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Steve Ballmer - one tough cookie, I suspect. Ballmer makes an interesting point about the nature and extent of his decision-making. He “makes” relatively few decisions; but he approves decisions and he also initiates things that he feels need to happen strategically.
What kind of decisions does Ballmer, as CEO, need to make? The big ones. E.g. major investment, objectives, resource allocation, big HRM/people decisions certainly interest him. But otherwise his focus is on delegation. Why? Partly because there simply isn’t time for a CEO of a complex business to get involved in the details of decision-making.
Anyway, here is the video. It’s a short-one, but I think you get a small sense of Ballmer’s leadership style.
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