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> 8. Make a table with the columns ‘Invest’, ‘Maintenance Mode’, ‘Kill’ and fill it up with Yahoo’s product portfolio. Share it with the employees and the press
by bluesnowmonkey 14y ago
> 8. Make a table with the columns ‘Invest’, ‘Maintenance Mode’, ‘Kill’ and fill it up with Yahoo’s product portfolio. Share it with the employees and the press so everyone finds out from you rather than AllThingsD as to what your priorities are. Favor the kill column whenever in doubt.
Or maybe let the employees vote on it. Collectively, they probably have a much better idea than Marissa Mayer (or any one person) which products are dogs and which are going somewhere.
- gawker 14y agoI'd prefer to see which products they kill based on data rather than just votes by employees.
- michaelhoffman 14y agoThis will either lead to the products currently employing the most staff being kept, or some bizarre Eurovision-style vote trading phenomenon.
- TimJRobinson 14y agoI would be totally ok with a Yahoo reality tv show where the teams sell the world on their progress and vision we get to vote on what gets kept and what gets killed.
- wpietri 14y agoEmployees have plenty of insight, but they also have a lot of biases. Like not getting fired. And part of Yahoo's problem is that they have a lot of people who are totally out of touch, so I'm not sure voting will work. A better way to extract information might be a prediction market: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prediction_market