Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B

Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by marcosdumay on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:14AM (#11894503)

That's because many decisions are caused by the environment, not the people. In the meaning that it's still the people doing them, but everybody on the same environment tend to choose similar things, and when in another environment, those same people tend to choose different things.

This is actually documented on management literature, with empirical studies and quantitative results.

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by dyim on Monday June 13, 2016 @11:40AM (#11894730)

That's a great point - though I bet there are many microclimates within Microsoft :)

Would love to read some of these management studies; it sounds intuitive but (as always) it's much easier to grok the bigger picture with concrete examples. Can you point me to some of the literature?

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Re:Microsoft to acquire LinkedIn for $26B by marcosdumay on Monday June 13, 2016 @01:27PM (#11895575)

I don't remember most, but Peopleware has an interesting example.

About the microclimates, looks to me that how much of the environment is dictated by the top itself is one of those decisions affected by the environment. No idea how Microsoft is structured.

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