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by Brad Wilson.
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I'm a new employee to Microsoft (less than 6 months). It's very easy to find people who are very positive about what's going on within the company.
When a company has more than 60k employees, it can't all be fluffy bunnies and rainbows. So when someone sticks their neck out on the line and risks firing if their identity is discovered, only to bring you their honest and unvarnished opinions, it's probably worth listening -- even if you don't agree.
I can't help but identify with phrases like 'agile' and 'focused on shipping'.
After a year of posting the occasional note here and going off on various tangents, I want to recenter and refocus on why it's important to me to be so public about Microsoft's current problematic state and to foster some level of transparent discussion about what's going well and what's not going so well for Microsoft. I love Microsoft and I know we have the innate potential to be great again and to backtrack away from this path of mediocrity.
To do this, we're going to have to be a smaller, agile company keenly focused on shipping end-user wow'zing software on-time, shedding ourselves of any groups or leaders who can't deliver.
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