Being a visionary takes a lot, lot more guts and risk-taking than people tend to think. It's not clear what the Yahoo board wanted in its CEO. Perhaps the board

Being a visionary takes a lot, lot more guts and risk-taking than people tend to think. It's not clear what the Yahoo board wanted in its CEO. Perhaps the board had mostly given up on Yahoo reclaiming its branding status in higher value markets and just wanted a way to stabilize stock prices before selling and making it an attractive acquisition target. We really don't know as outsiders.