I just posted this at ZDNet:
How Steven Sinofsky changed Microsoft, for better and for worse
When Steven Sinofsky moved to the Windows division in 2006, it was fundamentally broken. He leaves behind an engineering process that runs smoothly. But he also leaves a legacy of cutthroat politics and feuding between divisions. Read more…

Seems to me after 20+ years in IT, that running any shop to perfection leads to cutthroat politics and feuding divisions. I guess the management types really don’t like success, do they?