“The man helming the world’s biggest software company runs life on Excel,” Christie Loh reports for TODAYonline.
“‘I actually have a spreadsheet that I use to manage my time,’ said Microsoft Corp’s zingy chief executive Steve Ballmer. Otherwise the 51-year-old overseeing subsidiaries in 100 countries would be chained to the office with no time for himself, his wife and three sons,” Loh reports.
“His discipline is impeccable,” Loh reports.
MacDailyNews Take: The rest of him, not so much.
Loh report, “No meetings take place before 8am: ‘I run every morning … I take my kids to the bus and then I’m promptly at work by about 8 o’clock.'”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Bizarro Ballmer” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: Either Ballmer’s running approximately 3 feet “every morning” or he’s running to Dunkin’ Donuts for a dozen. Hey, Steve, tell us the one about how “Windows is more secure than the Mac” or “all iPod owners are thieves” or “pirates are to blame for poor Vista sales” or how the “‘Zune halo effect’ will help Windows Vista” — just about anything would be more believable than “I run every morning.”
Does it seem to anyone else as if Ballmer’s trying to shore up a shaky position by emphasizing his penchant for being a workaholic? Regardless of whether Ballmer understands that amount of time spent at work doesn’t equal quality of work, let’s hope shareholders buy it and keep him at the wheel for as long as possible.
Methinks the shareholders are getting a bit restless…..
Maybe he should start running away from MS, I would hate to have him around if I worked for the Mac BU. Imagine the sweat he drips all over the office!
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Ballmer exercises a lot. He Runs off at the mouth, Jumps to conclusions, makes Leaps of faith about Windows, Walks a think line with his users, Jogs my memory about why we don’t do Windows…he’s an athlete, baby.
I really didn’t need to know about Ballmer’s morning constitution. Ick!
You don’t have to run, you have to make your Windowsshit secure!
He meant: “I run out of energy every morning’
Chasing the ice cream truck doesn’t count, monkeyboy.
MS is powered by excel……
you know that explains why the company is such a mess. they eat their own dog food……
magic word, “south” as in the direction MS has headed since day one.
Yeh, Bullmer runs every morning – unfortunately it’s sweat running down his fat, pasty face…
…as he shuffles to the toilet to squirt out another zune.
Spreadsheet? I don’t expect him to use iCal but Microsoft do make an app for that sort of thing. Crap as it may be.
nice use of the word “prompt.”
‘I’m promptly at work by ABOUT 8 o’clock.’
hehe.
Nice one Jimbo! Ballmer should buy himself a robotic Richard Simmons.
If he sweats like a pig at a developers’ conference, imagine the pool of perspiration after a job!
Sorry to share that this early in the morning.
yeah right…he needs to run to the bathroom to flush his zune.
And there is no way his kids ride “the bus” to school.
I think the error in the the story, which has caused all of this confusion at MDN, is the reporter thought they heard, “I run every morning”. The reality here is that he has THE runs every morning.
It’d didn’t mention that I have to shower before and after I run that takes a while you know. DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS DEVELOPERS…. *sweat*sweat*sweat*…RUNNING RUNNING RUNNING… *sweat*sweat*sweat*….
I think they misprinted: His MARZIPAN is impeccable.
A mistake anyone could make.
Maybe Ballmer should get a Nike+ for his Zune…
oh wait…
He’s running for the toilet folks.
If he ran half a mile every morning, by the end of the month he’d be over 15 miles away!
“I actually have a spreadsheet that I use to manage my time”
Doesn’t the rest of the world use calendar programs? Why do I see this in a Get-a-Mac ad?
I can’t believe I am going to say this.
I hope Ballmer never leaves Miscrosoft.
He is the worst thing for Microsoft right now and I love it.
He is entertaining to boot.
he is going to ruin his knees running with all that weight.
mw: degree!! he needs a lot of this.