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So far all of Marissa Meyer's moves (at least the one's getting publicity) have made Yahoo! a bit more Google-like. While that's probably for the best, I will

• sneak 14y ago
  Interesting, sure, but most of that stuff worked amazingly well for Google back when their engineer headcount was at what Y!'s is today.
  • greenyoda 14y ago
    Correlation is not causation. We don't really know what combination of the many factors in Google's culture made them so successful. For all we know, it may have been due entirely to the people they hired, and the same team might have produced great results with or without all the perks that Google is famous for.
    • lsc 14y ago
      sure. but it seems to me that this woman was hired with a mandate to 'make the place more google-like' - I'm with you; my belief is that 95% of leadership is picking the right people, but, then, I'm a bad leader. It seems like it's worth a shot. I mean, Yahoo has tried and failed many other strategies.
• InclinedPlane 14y ago
  You can't create culture with edicts, culture is an emergent property of the community that either is supported or fought by the power structure at hand. A corporation is like an ecosystem, you can create the conditions that will allow a healthier culture to flourish but it will likely take a huge amount of time for that culture to take hold, assuming that there aren't other roadblocks still in the way such as entrenched middle management with different ideas about the place they want to work.