While I do realize Elop HAD to do something different I think he just took the shirt cut to shareholder-worthy success.

Instead of claning shop and rallying the do-ers within and bringing in new blood and ramping uo the Meego development cycles and the geting the hardware teams to make them bring-to-market devices quicker etc, he just decided to ride an existing competitors coattails to short-term success (if that happens).

He didnt create a new Nokia. He just decided to ride on the back of MS to bring immediate suceess. A true leader in this posiion would have actually turned around the failing Nokia on its own strengths.

He would have made Meego (or whatever inetrnal OS) be the catalyst for a new challenging change. Of course that required hard work as he wod have to clean house, remove the fail points (in the slow Maemo/Meego development ) and bring in a urgent dynamics to make it work.

Instead Elop goes wih a already week competitor product ( admitedly MS was a better strategic choice than Android) to get the sharehders their moneys worth. Week leadership I wod say for a long-term run.