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November 23, 2006
categories: press, narcissism
And, still, an even stronger smell…
Last Saturday’s Washington Post had my mug on the front page of the business section. The full story is available online, but lacks the photos. (Fear not, they simply copied the image of me from the front page of this blog, so you aren’t missing anything.)
Anyhow, Alan Sipress describes me as:
… a 39-year-old with a strong, stubby jaw and even stronger opinions.
The title of this blog entry is my complete response.
On a more serious note, while I think it is a great article and one that I feel lucky to be a part of, I think the article goes just a hair too far in characterizing MSFT in a “new” versus “old” kind of way. Many of the most potent change agents within the company have been part of MSFT for over a decade. MSFT is also the most introspective and self-critical environment that I’ve ever worked in (I mean that in the best possible way). So while the article paints me as a sort of “rebel with a cause”, I am really but one of many people who are helping MSFT to grow in new directions and any implication of a “versus” is more on how we’ll change not if we’ll change.