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Marissa Meyer seems like a really bad CEO.

• ArkyBeagle 10y ago
  She's basically in the spot Fiorina was in - the ship is slowly taking on water for Schumpeterian life cycle reasons.
  • PedroBatista 10y ago
    She sure put some holes in it too.
  • staticelf 10y ago
    I don't really understand the reference, but despite the spot she was in when she started she obviously have done some bad shit right from the get go. Like banning remote work and now this. Then there is no seeming investment in the stuff Yahoo! is good at which is simply weird.
  • gspetr 10y ago
    I'm not sure why you wish to remove agency and assign victimhood here. She knew the job was difficult when she took it. Speaking of Fiorina, there was a guy who was a CEO of a company taking tons of water too. He turned it around. And then he won the primary in which Fiorina also ran.
    • ArkyBeagle 10y ago
      I wasn't assigning victimhood that I know of - Yahoo is just an older company. My read is that they'd have had to have pivoted pretty sharply. We tend to assign praise or blame on people who pivot depending on how it works out, but it's just not clear that anyone ( except perhaps a very select few ) is simply better at that than anyone else. It's as much gambling as it is playing a game. I am not 100% sure which primary you refer to, but McCain never turned any company around and Trump has just pivoted to being a floating brand. He's left a trail of wreckage in his wake but still gets to claim otherwise. I don't hold bankruptcy against anyone but you don't then get to construct an "I'm a winner" narrative from that. At least his communications style is that of a con man. Now, in America, the phenomenon of Perfesser Harold Hill is really a thing - a "jasper" who does good without being good - but the narrative there doesn't work, either.
• jbob2000 10y ago
  Right?? She took over a software company and the first thing she does is launch a fashion blog? What the hell?