Steven A. Ballmer, the C.E.O. of Microsoft, is a freak for numbers. He doesn't just think about financials. He has memorized virtually every sales number for every one of his divisions, quarter by quarter, for years. This is a man who has favorite spreadsheet cells.
His own schedule is broken out in a spreadsheet, and in his office on the top floor of Building 34 on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Wash., he happily offers to show it to me. ''I'm religious about the way I manage my time,'' he says.
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