Microsoft current CEO Steve Ballmer has announced his retirement from the company which has surprised a lot of people. Steve completely explained his reason of stepping out from his position which was due to the intense pressure from his board of directors. As you know , the tech giants of the world, Apple and Samsung has made many companies to speed up thier work and forced them to create some new strategies and devices in order to compete with these two rivals. Steve Ballmer retirement was also due to this reason. Ballmer explained that the board of directors were forcing him to speed up Microsoft's transformation into devices and services company ever did since January.
In January, Ballmer was laying out his plan to combat the rise of the iPhone and Android to his board members in a conference call. He was cut off by John Thompson, lead director. "Hey, dude, let's get on with it... We're in suspended animation," Thompson said. That conversation set in motion Ballmer's decision to step down. He realized he couldn't move fast enough to make the board happy. John Thomson explained that he was not trying to convince Steve to leave the company but was asking him to go faster in his ideas and work.
This conversation was something a misunderstanding between Steve and Thomson which resulted in resulting Steve’s retirement from the company. Steve Ballmer said ,
"No matter how fast I want to change, there will be some hesitation from all constituents—employees, directors, investors, partners, vendors, customers, you name it—to believe I'm serious about it, maybe even myself,"
He further said , that he belongs to an old era and in order to make Microsoft compete with the world , they should have a new leader who will have new and fresh ideas according to the new era which will change the future of the company.
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