In Steve Ballmer’s 13 years as Microsoft CEO, the company has lost over a third of its market value. Yet Ballmer’s personal stash of Microsoft shares has jumped 56 percent in value since 2000 — to $11.5 billion. America’s CEOs, even the most hapless among them, can always point to some “metric” that illustrates how well they’ve “performed.”
In Steve Ballmer’s 13 years as Microsoft CEO, the company has lost over a third of its market value. Yet Ballmer’s personal stash of Microsoft shares has jumped 56 percent in value since 2000 — to $11.5 billion. America’s CEOs, even the most hapless among them, can always point to some “metric” that illustrates how well they’ve “performed.”