“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.
Runs to the toilet?
‘I’m promptly at work by ABOUT 8 o’clock.’
Thanks for pointing that out, typhoon — I skimmed right past that. It is such a telling statement — practically sums up Microsoft.
Well….people laugh at him for being fat
But people also laugh at him for trying to slim down (OK, maybe nobody notices progress…but exercising takes time. No inmediate results)
Sounds kind of hypocrite to me.
Observer wrote: Sounds kind of hypocrite to me.
It’s only hypocritical if it’s the same people laughing at him for being fat and laughing at him for trying to slim down. Otherwise, it’s just different people’s opinions. I’m sure you’ve Observed the fact that this is a forum with many people posting.
I forgot to mention, I just laugh at him. He may be rich but I’d still tell him to get off my lawn.
Managing your time on an Excel spreadsheet is like changing your watch battery with a lawn rake. Is Outlook used by him to balance his checkbook and add up his expenses? Is it any wonder that MS is so fuxxed up it doesn’t know which way is down? Oh, and Zune is hmmmmmm doing just fine by meeting all spreadsheet projections….
I’ll bet Ballmer’s wife and three sons wish his ugly ass was chained to the freakin’ Titanic.
I run every morning, until I see a blue screen: “The system has performed an illegal operation and it wll be shut down”. Then I sit down and I socially squirt with my uncle.
MDN word: “music”. No further question, Your Honour.
Yep, he runs his MOUTH every morning.
…yeah, I run …so what. I know how to run so I run …so freakin what. I tell you what else I do …I give the world its vista, its xbox, its zune, two-button mouse and a partridge in a pear tree …it’s what I do. I run hard, I play hard …you can’t keep up with me you better grab your nuts because I’m going to run all over that stupid smirk on your face …I’m a runner ..I run hard. What ..you don’t like that you iPod music thief …you’re about as funny as a 600 dollar price tag on a fully subsidized phone without a keypad ..you want a piece of me …yeah, I thought so.
So there you go. Exercise is a waste of time after all.
tank,
hope you Observed i wrote my opinion as i have write to do so…or not?
Nice day, gentleman
Count me in the “I don’t want him to leave camp” this guy is so frigging entertaining plus he is running the world’s largest PC company… badly. Microsoft succeeds in spite of, not because of Steve “Monkey Boy” Ballmer
Could imagine what Microsoft would be like if they had someone who actually knew what they were doing running the company?
(ducks. and looks out for flying chairs….>
what a horible sight that must be.
how can this guy seriously be proud of running, when being so fat ?
So good to be back here for my daily dose of bile. And what’s that noise? Why ’tis the sound of Steve Jobs breaking wind. Violets in the Spring.
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This is odd, I am viewing this “Ballmer: ‘I run every morning’ ” article on my new Vista notebook from work (my home machine is a Mac)
It has Fraud monitoring turned on and yet I am able to see all of Balmer’s quotes, ‘I run every morning … ‘ etc.
I guess the fraud filter is not working! ;>
Run Forest, run.
MDN magic word: evidence. Yeah, right.
What? Not getting enough exercise throwing chairs there Uncle Fester????
wait, the guys like 51… and his kids are… like 7-9 years old?
So he…at 41 decided to have kids? I call bullshit.