10 Executive Outbursts

3. Steve Ballmer – Microsoft

Ballmer is the present CEO of Microsoft and is almost always surrounded by controversies. His emotional outbursts are so common that he has become a favourite in YouTube videos. His emotional outflows are generally attributed to his being overzealous. However, Ballmer crossed the line with his behaviour when one of the employees at Microsoft was headed towards its biggest rival – Google. Mark Lucovsky, was an engineer at Microsoft. Google asked him to join their company and Lucovsky agreed to move. In a fit of rage, Ballmer hurled a chair at Lucovsky. What’s worse is that Ballmer used profanity laced language for Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, for hiring their exec. He even threatened to kill Schmidt and Google too.