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Carol Bartz should step down as CEO, she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo. She was appointed to bring yahoo down and is doing a great job at t

Carol Bartz should step down as CEO, she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo. She was appointed to bring yahoo down and is doing a great job at that.

jacquesm 16y ago
> she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo Right. She doesn't. I disagree with plenty of her moves but I always wonder how much that is because I'm standing on the sidelines and she's in the midst of it. That said, saying one of the most powerful women in tech 'has no balls' is really dumb, for one she is a woman, second she's achieved more than 99.9% of the visitors here including you. You weren't on the short-list to be picked as CEO of Yahoo! were you? She's facing nothing but tough decisions, and even if - again - I disagree with some of them it is interesting to try to figure out what it is that you would do instead and to say that rather than criticize someone for 'lack of balls' when they make one ruthless decision after another.
- sp4rki 16y ago
  Whatever she has achieved doesn't make the opinions of anyone, including yours, null by default because of some random metric of success. According to you, we should not criticize Ballmer, because he's the head honcho at Microsoft, even though he's obviously a mental case. According to you we should not criticize Jobs because he's the Apple god, even though it's obvious that the amount of control over the app store is a curse in disguise (and don't try to spin that the wrong way, I'm writing this on a mac and own an iPad... I'm as much a fan of most of Apple's products as the next guy). Not every capable person becomes a multimillionaire and manages a big company, the same way not every dumb fucker ends up in the slums asking for cash on traffic lights. A lot of really smart people end up in the gutter for a variety of reasons, the same way a lot of imbeciles end up being millionaires through good luck or the fact that they where born into money or society. Kilimanjaro may have not been in the Yahoo CEO list, but his opinion is one shared with a great amount of people, and it's insulting not only towards him, but towards anyone who has an 'opinion' to say something that implies that their thoughts are not important because they're not the CEO of a big company. What can't I voice my opinion that someone is doing a lousy job without someone chastising me because "you're not on the CEO to be list". Bartz may be a tech superstar and all (and hell she deserves the respect that she deserves) and has achieved more than 99.9% of us have achieved, but she's also bringing down Yahoo in a torrent of fire. That being said, I agree with you. I don't think she lacks 'balls'. Quite the contrary, I think she has lot's of 'balls' and the decisions she's making are sure as hell not easy to make. I also think they're the wrong decisions, and I think I'm entitled to say so... even though I'm not in the "Next Yahoo CEO" list.

Carol Bartz should step down as CEO, she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo. She was appointed to bring yahoo down and is doing a great job at that.

jacquesm 16y ago

> she doesn't have the balls to run a company like yahoo Right. She doesn't. I disagree with plenty of her moves but I always wonder how much that is because I'm standing on the sidelines and she's in the midst of it. That said, saying one of the most powerful women in tech 'has no balls' is really dumb, for one she is a woman, second she's achieved more than 99.9% of the visitors here including you. You weren't on the short-list to be picked as CEO of Yahoo! were you? She's facing nothing but tough decisions, and even if - again - I disagree with some of them it is interesting to try to figure out what it is that you would do instead and to say that rather than criticize someone for 'lack of balls' when they make one ruthless decision after another.

sp4rki 16y ago
Whatever she has achieved doesn't make the opinions of anyone, including yours, null by default because of some random metric of success. According to you, we should not criticize Ballmer, because he's the head honcho at Microsoft, even though he's obviously a mental case. According to you we should not criticize Jobs because he's the Apple god, even though it's obvious that the amount of control over the app store is a curse in disguise (and don't try to spin that the wrong way, I'm writing this on a mac and own an iPad... I'm as much a fan of most of Apple's products as the next guy). Not every capable person becomes a multimillionaire and manages a big company, the same way not every dumb fucker ends up in the slums asking for cash on traffic lights. A lot of really smart people end up in the gutter for a variety of reasons, the same way a lot of imbeciles end up being millionaires through good luck or the fact that they where born into money or society. Kilimanjaro may have not been in the Yahoo CEO list, but his opinion is one shared with a great amount of people, and it's insulting not only towards him, but towards anyone who has an 'opinion' to say something that implies that their thoughts are not important because they're not the CEO of a big company. What can't I voice my opinion that someone is doing a lousy job without someone chastising me because "you're not on the CEO to be list". Bartz may be a tech superstar and all (and hell she deserves the respect that she deserves) and has achieved more than 99.9% of us have achieved, but she's also bringing down Yahoo in a torrent of fire. That being said, I agree with you. I don't think she lacks 'balls'. Quite the contrary, I think she has lot's of 'balls' and the decisions she's making are sure as hell not easy to make. I also think they're the wrong decisions, and I think I'm entitled to say so... even though I'm not in the "Next Yahoo CEO" list.