What does the leadership team at Microsoft need to get better at?

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Understand customer needs and the true work being done by individual contributors. Remove middle management and bring in a new leaders.

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The field leadership is a tragedy, feels like the old days under Ballmer with all of the infighting and passive aggressive behavior.

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Inclusion and equality for women. Unless you can mimic the traits and similarities of the CEO, you are not treated equally.

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Provide a clear vison and direction. Reward people who make an effort to leave things better than how they inherited them.

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Accountability is lacking. Empty words and declarations is no substitute for real change (which is badly needed on all levels)

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Too many layers of mid-mgmt. Directors lose touch with workforce and direct mgrs. unable or unwilling to go to bat.

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Stop gossiping about employees. Lead by encouraging and not micro managing employees. Respect an employee's boundaries. Stop playing favorit

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Decision making. It's a real easy place to just come into work and go through the motions daily.

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Planning, communication, and actual leadership. Lower level management needs to know how to manage people, not technology.

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Do better to make it not look like it is all about the stock price and their bonuses

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Clear goals, accountability, performance management, teamwork. It is a culture of leadership by fear vs inspiration.

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The views and direction do not trickle down fully to the line level employees.

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Busy work then fired to avoid paying severance for 16 years of service.

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Keeping their employees well trained and rewarded for their work

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Trends! And, stop abandoning hardware and features that customers want.

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They are looking out for themselves, not for their subordinates.

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Dealing with and empathizing with people

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Communication and supporting mid-level staff

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promoting good leaders

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Be more realistic

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No leadership skills

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Leadership. Trust. Fairness.

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Joint projects