Sinofsky, a Microsoft verteran for 23 years, has a reputation for good management of “large and complex software projects and delivering important products on schedule” while Forstall, an Apple verteran for 15 years, was said to be a possible successor of Steve Jobs and “rose quickly at the company [while earning] a reputation for risk taking”. Both of these two managers with prominent reputations were also said to be difficult to work with by their peers.
With such prominent reputations, good positions, and much potential to rise even higher, they both quit from the two biggest technology companies in the world. Why?This situation brings me to the class discussion about the types of managers, the one who want power and the ones who want money. The two discusses above are probably in between the two extremes with power dominating more because they were excellent at management but the part of them that wanted, not just them but the company, to earn more money was making them difficult to work with. They probably had high expectations for the work produced by the employees under them.
Therefore, I believe the reason the two quit from their jobs was that they were difficult to work with and that created a environment where both weren’t happy. And the only way they will find jobs that will satisfy them now is to change their management strategy to be more power dominating.
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