The Summarize Ahonen Contest Entrants - Taking 30,000 Word Elop is Worst CEO Ever Monsterblog into one Tweet of 140 Characters

I have just concluded the 24 hour around-the-world contest on Twitter among my Tweeps, to summarize the big blog about Stephen Elop of Nokia as worst CEO ever. If you want to spend an hour and two cups of coffee reading what many do nicely call the best blog I've ever written, please do go here to enjoy: The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia: How Elop Destroyed Nokia from the inside.

But if you prefer reading the highlights in a more Twitterrific form, here are the 91 Finalist entries on one page. For the next 24 hours, we are accepting votes on Twitter for any one of these (to vote, you must click the 'Retweet' button inside Twitter for that specific tweet, don't vote 'Like' and don't do manual retweets by editing the text itself). You may vote many times, for as many entries as you want. Lets see who is the most popular entry and thus the best at condensing my monster 30,000 word blog into just 140 characters (including link..)

 

Here, in reverse alphabetical order are the Tweets:

 

RT @zarkoh Sun Tzu empowered @tomiahonen can write more words than number of phones that @selop can sell - http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @yousifabdullah @tomiahonen When MeeGoes burning platforms, mommy is proud. http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @welmanh Very interesting @tomiahonen How one man has destroyed Europe's largest tech giant http://bit.ly/OArMOD  ‪#Nokia

 

RT @WarWraith @tomiahonen I tried to get through Sun Tzu post, but was too depressing. Elop is a one-man wrecking crew http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @vladest_ LOL designed by Italians, improved by Egyptians & built by Russians: sure receipe 4 automotive excellence http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @VeganBen Elop, criminally at fault, Microsoft Lackey. Two Osbournes and a Ratner: http://bit.ly/OArMOD  // @tomiahonen

 

RT @uriondo Blame Canada: 'MicroPuppet' Elop plays thrashcan man & burns Nokia. Tomi readership need retina transplant http://bit.ly/OArMOD

 

RT @toninikkanen Tomi maybe you should partner with someone who will write abridged versions of your articles... :) http://t.co/5uDPnhNq

 

RT @Tomi_Toivio Just check, after this fiasco he will get a new job as a CEO somewhere... In company to be terminated http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @tkoola Another victory like that and we are done for. 30,000 words by @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @teemukunto @tomiahonen One Memo to bring them all and in the MS bind them. In the Land of Nokia where the Elop lie http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @taike_hk You want to read Sun Tzu and the Art of Nokisoftian Microkia? Aka in search of worst CEO ever? http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @swoodgate @tomiahonen A Man, A Plan, Nokia - A Failure http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @stephen_oman What a read! @tomiahonen The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia. How one man destroyed Europe's http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Stanilb @tomiahonen Elop the modern day Judas in action http://bit.ly/OArMOD  by he prism of Sun Tzu

 

RT @SomeDude43 A mole making a hole. @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @sabbour @tomiahonen Do you do anything else for living, other than criticizing Nokia? http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @rizkisuluhadi haha, @tomiahonen rocks ! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @RiittaHyppanen @tomiahonen 19 cold arguments against Elop, (still) big heart for Nokia. What an article! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Rich_Enduro @tomiahonen wow, Elop a delusional madman! When are the shareholders going to take legal action? http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @RalphCipolla @tomiahonen E.L.O.P. = Elop's Legacy Of Pain http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @raindropper Sun Tzu, Elop, Nokia, Ratner Effect, great battle commanders... What a blog post by @tomiahonen! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @RaghuKannan @tomiahonen omg! Don't know how you write that much. :-) Love the history stuff there though. http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @portamobile @tomiahonen usually your blogs take a cup of coffee to read.. This one took two! Excellent work maestro http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @PhoneBoy Is Elop responsible for Extinction Level Events at Nokia? @tomiahonen thinks so http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @patricksoeder Goya painted "The Bogey-Man is coming". In Finnish version, wears $1000 suit @tomiahonen has story http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @p47 Great read, as usually, from @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD Today with bonus history lesson.

 

RT @ookker1 Tomi I feel bad when reading your texts. I dont wanna know more! Ignorance is bliss. Damn u @selop !http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @OmniOnni Nokia = Toast, eFlop = tosser, article = novel, Author = @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @omichalek @selop is a criminal for his actions against N9, N950, MeeGo & Meltemi – the future of Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Niilolainen Always find @tomiahonen 's blog insightful and entertaining when I get the chance to read it http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @NairobiWP7 Nokia competitor is not Apple; It is Samsung, LG & ZTE. The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia http://bit.ly/LEhkqx 

 

RT @N0ki4N Wow @tomiahonen : The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Mwirigi The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia - in search of the worst CEO ever ~ http://j.mp/Mc6TdF 

 

RT @mvonwillebrand Greatest military commander ever H Siilasvuo; worst CEO S Elop. @tomiahonen explores Sun Tzu in http://bit.ly/NtOQf6 

 

RT @mumathin NOKIA Fall: Portrait of a Madman (written in the Asylum) by @tomiahonen http:/bit.ly/OArMOD ‪#contest ‪#marketing‪#fail

 

RT @mrchohan Sun Tzu & Nokisoftian Microkia http://bit.ly/OArMOD  via@tomiahonen ‪#NOK

 

RT @moolark "..only a pure madman would end a profitable unit when the company itself is plunged into loss-making." http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @mobotnet @tomiahonen Tomi 1 : Nokia 0 http://bit.ly/OArMOD ‪#EveryoneLoses ‪#Yay

 

RT @mobilesguruji Elop you are biggest Flop by @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @MiAlpesh Troy pt 2 , MS the Trojan horse on a gullible Nokia .Elop the general. Beware of men bearing gifts http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @MBBdV Every time I say ELOP my dog attacks !!! Thanks to@tomiahonen --->The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @max4974 Nokia now is just an empty shell..its just a wasted clutter of bones, eaten away by the parasite @selop http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @manikantan_k @tomiahonen forget sun Tzu, you are waging a one man war about Elop.. :) http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @mandrl What a piece! @tomiahonen: Sun Tzu & Nokisoftian Microkia. How 1 man destroyed biggest European tech giant http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @loves2travel2 Trojan horse mission accomplished. Nokia now headless chicken still momentarily moving & already dead http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @larsxsamuelsson Designed by Finns, improved around the world, manufactured by great people & destroyd by 1 Canadian http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @ktadas @tomiahonen Invisible to Nokia shareholders Elops boson explained with vivid side (negative) effects http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @kluoma @tomiahonen at his finest, very long read, yet worth it all http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @kimmolehto Monsterious blog from mr. @tomiahonen The link to the blog Sun Tzu & Nokisoftian Microkia is here http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @kieranhannon Time for a history lesson @tomiahonen: You may want to read Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Kanttila Excellent blog post by @tomiahonen about Elop The Arsonist ‪#Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @kalakutaworld Unfortunatly for Nokia your analysis is brilliant. Take your time to read Tomi's article http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @kabforks Analyst Tomi Ahonen makes a devastating case against Nokia CEO Elop http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @juhasaarinen There's robust criticism and there's the full on nuclear attack Stephen Elop by @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @jsardy Worst CEO ever. Here is case against Elop of Nokia by 12x author of mobile http://bit.ly/OArMOD  //gr8 analysis. Recommended

 

RT @jpetrise i will pass you over to @tomiahonen he can explain the@selop deception in great detail for you with link http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Johajus I must say this is the ultimate blog of Nokia you have ever written. Pure lunacy Nokia board & Elop http://bit.ly/OArMOD

 

RT @jimh @tomiahonen Sun Tzu, @selop and Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD <- my 5 char summary is tl;dr

 

RT @jbineli how two late response brands & platforms can't beat the oponents without a true new vision and leadership http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @jarmolahti @tomiahonen what's the prize - Lumia perhaps? http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @jahven From Finnish Winter War to Lumia by@tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @ilkka_es @tomiahonen Epic post about Sun Tzu & Nokia. Thanks! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @hugoinfinity That's naughty. Not finished reading from last night! Now you've changed the goal posts :) http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @hroethgar @tomiahonen that was entertainingly scathing http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @hmmJD1 Nokia's Kiss of Death written by @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @glonq Missed the Titanic? Hindenburg? 1929 stock crash? @tomiahonen provides front-row seats to a modern disaster: http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @ginesoliver @tomiahonen on war and strategy (and tactics, actually), profiling the works of Mr. Elop. http://bit.ly/OArMOD  … A must.

 

RT @genericpoints "I can't sleep, there is an Elop under my bed!" (and he's worse than Stalin's worst general) http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @eyaleshet @tomiahonen explains like no other how Elop turned a fictitious burning platform into a smoking company http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @ErnoTaur Tomi I think your mega blogpost was to the point. Can't understand the mistakes they've made ‪#Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @eprado_melo The Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia - a long trek blog in search of the worst CEO ever from @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @edwardrbatten @tomiahonen If MS sent Elop to violate fiduciary duty to Nokia shareholders, then MS owes $Bs damages http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @edent Note to self, never piss off @tomiahonen! Devastating critique of Elop's misadventures at Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @dotpeople ‪#leadership ‪#sales ‪#strategy ‪#nokia Tomi vs Elop, Round 27. Educational as always http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @DonPeppers Blistering (& fun to read) indictment of Nokia CEO Stephen Elop by @tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD  Long but worth the read!

 

RT @dermotcasey @tomiahonen you've called it right on this one for quite a while http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @deepcode Mind-breaking news: @ChuckNorriz has read THE@tomiahonen's blog post TWICE! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @davekoelmeyer @tomiahonen on @selop - sounds dead on to me: http://bit.ly/OArMOD  "Domo arigato Stephen-san. What an asshole!"

 

RT @CWmobil Must read: Epische Analyse zu Elops Verfehlungen bei Nokia von @tomiahonen : The Sun Tzu of..http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @creip "We paid him to eat us alive from the inside" Nokia ill-fated decision to hire Elop for CEO by @TomiAhonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @ccoc @tomiahonen Defeat from jaws of victory - how Nokia's CEO Elop burnt an iconic brand http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @catacang If you have time machine put it to good use! Print http://bit.ly/OArMOD  by @tomiahonen go to early 2010 & show it to J Ollila!

 

RT @ArchSam36 @tomiahonen the old saying "Fish Stink from the Head" is now the epitaph of Nokia. http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @anti_nomy JESUS CHRIST Tomi what the hell man this is 1 of most interesting articles have EVER read http://bit.ly/OArMOD ‪#respect

 

RT @anthony_p_c Striving for unparalleled excellence in Failure, the Elop story: http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @albertcuesta @tomiahonen contra Elop adquiere proporciones épicas: 30.000 caracteres despotricando del CEO de Nokia http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @aespinosa1975 @tomiahonen "The inside enemy of Nokia, the ultimate brief analysis" in http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @AdrianLeeSA You need time to read this 30K word article on Nokia. Frighteningly comprehensive. Feel sad http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @adeyinka41 The memo that cost 13billion in sales for Nokia@tomiahonen http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @abdulkarim @tomiahonen wow man! You want to destroy Elop don't you? LOL! http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

 

Those were the contestants, please do go vote for your favorite by Wednesday, then we close the contest and the winner with the most votes gets a free ebook out of the 5 I've written (Pearls Vol 1, 2 or 3; or the Almanac or the Phonebook)

I have a few other spontaneous retweets that were particularly funny or relevant, I would also like to mention here at the end:

RT @uriondo Good ole Tomi has written a post/book on Elop you definitely should read... There is a movie here Hollywood http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @larsxsamuelsson Big prize is Elop-repellant spray? If you find an Elop hiding somewhere in apartment, organization? http://bit.ly/OArMOD

 

RT @omichalek @tomiahonen, I've thought that before, but THIS must be your best Eloppic so far! ‪#elopocalypse http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @patricksoeder Friday just turned from Reading-Analyst-Papers to History-Channel-By-Tdawg. Highly appreciated http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Stanilb @tomiahonen best tagline ever :) Sun Tzu and the Art of Nokisoftian Mikrokia... http://bit.ly/OArMOD 

 

RT @Stanilb @tomiahonen pls publish http://bit.ly/OArMOD  as an ebook, will be great for MBA classes :)

 

 

Thank you so much to all who played and for summarizing my article so well. Here are my own personal favorites of my own Tweets (that were obviously excluded from the contest):

Elop set platform on fire. Tells Nokians: jump. Sets sea on fire. Relases sharks. Shoots survivers. Releases poison gas http://bit.ly/OArMOD

 

100 years in future Finnish grandmoms threaten: Eat your porridge or the Elop-o-monster will come and get you http://bit.ly/OArMOD

 

Ok, that was the collection of summaries. If you have not read what many call my best writing ever, why not brew up some coffee and sit down for the business & strategy blunders lessons of a lifetime. The world record in management failure. Taking lessons from his very own guru, its the Sun Tzu of Nokisoftian Microkia, how Elop destroyed Nokia.


UPDATE July 12 - we have now the winners. Find out who were voted best Tweets, and as a bonus treat, I even received TWO original cartoons inspired by the blog, see them all here: Winners of Contest. 

 

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