Magical act in branding & miniaturization. Charistimatic builder of great business with attitude. Sony Walkman, Sony Handycam. "It's a Sony" slogan. Build Sony from scratch, turning the tiny setup into the crown jewel of Asia, and the darling brand of the world.
Dedication, tinkering persistence, passion & strong vision to make horseless carriage a reality. "Car for the people". "Assembly manufacturing concept". Years of consistent dedicated act, tinkering and passion. One of the greatest, finest and bravest tinkerer of all time. Modern mobile society as the result.
Passion for excellence & master of continous magical act. Make things happen greatly with style. Leaders with strong sense of vision and with "no limit" nor "no boundary" for next great cultural possibility to explore. Mac. Next. iPod. iPhone. Apple. Next. Pixar. Think Different. Mix innovation & culture at its best. Modern digital culture is born, and consistently turns greater under his act. 
The greatest people manager and most charismatic people-centric business leader of all time. Think. Respect to individual. People first. Under his great leadership turns the tiny IBM into a mighty organization of its time. The "king" in the annal of "business kingdom". A rare business person with great business persona and legendary people-centric attitude of our time.
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Microsoft's "innovation" increasingly feels too-late and irrelevant.
Take a look at this week's "contrast" for example. Feel the difference between Google/Apple creative, exciting, forward looking innovation vs. Microsoft lame, retarded, boring innovations ever:
- While many people currently looking at Google's fresh idea and innovation with their new multi-process "chrome" application-centric, super stable, super speedy browser, the "greatest innovation" that Microsoft can do is releasing IE8 beta 2. :-( Lame!
- While Apple is soon going to announce "something exciting" on September 9, the "greatest interesting launch" Microsoft plan to do is "responding" to Apple "false claims" regarding Vista pitfalls through its Seinfeld+Gates advertising campaign. Oh My God!! :-(
Today, Microsoft leadership in innovation and in making great exciting product is may be at its worst ever. People say great founders create great companies, lauzy leaders that later takes over makes it a lauzy company afterward.
In the case of Microsoft, this seems to be true. While Bill Gates successfully made Microsoft into a truly exciting, loveable and relevant company in the past, the only "thing" Mr. Ballmer can do today is making Microsoft even becoming more strange, boring and irrelevant than ever.
Mr. Ballmer -- with all respect to what he might try to do for the good of Microsoft -- really never can be my "favourite" Microsofties, perhaps. His lame, lauzy, arrogant pooh-poohing act, and his crazy "monkey-dancing" act is really makes me loosing my respect, believe and apetite for Microsoft.
He (Mr. Ballmer) really bring this once great entity into its lamest stature. At the time when Microsoft really need to technically lead, envision, re-excute and rearchitect its view and implementation regarding its technology, framework, business model, strategy and architecture around the internet, the future of desktop, content and media, search, advertising, software as a service, cloud computing, and business, it got the lamest, wierd, non-technical, non visionary, non charismatic CEO leader ever.
Really really sad fact. :-(
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