The 12 Simple Secrets of Microsoft Management: How to Think and Act Like a Microsoft Manager and Take Your Company to the Top

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Summary: Yes, Virginia. Microsoft Breathes ModernManagement and Wins!
Review: This book treats the eminently fertile soil of Microsoft's management style, and its obvious success. From hiring to project management and from office design to esprit d' corps, Microsoft is distinguishes itself by pushing its employees to their creative limits in achieving total domination of their chosen markets. This is accomplished through a zero-crap management style, individual authority and a stringent requirement to back up proposed courses of action with facts. While readable and terse, the text does tend to confuse the distinctive Microsoft traits and those of technology companies in general. Still, the book accomplishes the objective of communicating the formula for how Microsoft went about building its empire.