Microsoft's Paranoia
by Volker Weber
Microsoft's culture imbues employees with the sense that disaster is always around the corner -- if they make one misstep, the competition will eat their lunch. This paranoia is a sort of management tool, to be sure, but it's also an attitude that emanates directly from the company's leadership.
Microsoft is hanging on to its $40 billion because, hey, who knows how much money it might need when the next big seismic shift in the technological landscape threatens to unseat its monopoly? Think of that $40 billion as one big Windows replacement fund.
