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It's called the glass cliff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff She takes over after years of neglect at a time
by andkon 12y ago
It's called the glass cliff: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glass_cliff
She takes over after years of neglect at a time of even more substantial crisis, and yet gets and will take far more of the blame than her very incompetent predecessors for Yahoo's failure. What's worth wondering is whether her being a bossy boss woman was also responsible for her being sidelined and pushed out from the OC at Google:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/technology/in-googles-inner-circle-a-falling-number-of-women.html?pagewanted=all http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/23/technology/in-googles-inne...
- gohrt 12y agoI doubt Larry Page cared whether she was a "bossy boss", since she wasn't his boss. He might have cared that she was his ex-girlfriend.
- wldcordeiro 12y agoDid she get pushed out? I thought it was her seeing an opportunity for a higher prestige+pay as a CEO vs being a VP.
- smacktoward 12y agoNot pushed out so much as sidelined -- it was clear that she was never going to get promoted beyond where she already was at Google, so if she ever wanted to move up she had to move out.
- larrys 12y agoHow is it a glass cliff? She didn't work at Yahoo and was not promoted into that role to take a fall. She was offered a job there and took the job. Her choice. Not the same as being pushed in any way shape or form. At all. Separately impossible to feel sorry for someone at that level of sophistication knowing full well that the job is not going to be easy. People take chances all the time when the upside is high enough. Of course she could have stayed where she was or taken an easier job.