Comments on: Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the "Matrix"?

By: Is Yahoo – and the rest of us – in for some deep surprises? — Shooting at Bubbles

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 21:14:16 +0000

[...] that news I’ve been following Kara Swisher as she has been keeping a close eye on what is happening; which makes sense since Kara obviously has people willing to talk [...]

By: Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the “Matrix”? (at AllThingsD) | StockTrading Portal

Mon, 01 Jun 2009 09:00:46 +0000

[...] My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz has been the one in which she called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker. original article [...]

By: The Yahoo Management Structure: Who Is In and Who Is Out? | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:22:31 +0000

[...] Yahoo, Bartz is likely to impose a more top-down management style on the hopelessly confusing “matrix” organization now in place at the [...]

By: Matrix management at Yahoo

Matrix management at Yahoo — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:57:05 +0000

[...] I came across a couple of posts about the matrix organization at Yahoo. They are pretty critical of the matrix there and mention symptoms including “a horrible gridlock in decision making”, lack of accountability, turnover of good people who felt they had not got the authority they needed and lack of accountability. Read the full post on Yahoo’s Matrix [...]

By: “Hurricane Carol” Bartz Could Announce Major Yahoo Management Reorg Next Week | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:53:05 +0000

[...] Most sources I spoke to who have interfaced with Bartz think she will likely go with a more traditional and more accountable structure she employed while rehauling Autodesk (ADSK), the computer-aided design software company she once headed, rather than the matrix-tangled Yahoo. [...]

By: Weekend Update, 02.15.09 | Beth Callaghan | Digital Daily | AllThingsD

Mon, 16 Feb 2009 02:12:33 +0000

[...] search giant will swoop in before the whole thing falls apart. Apparently, new Yahoo (YHOO) CEO Carol Bartz has been asking a lot of questions of her staffers lately, like, “what exactly is your job [...]

By: Is Yahoo – and the rest of us – in for some deep surprises? - WinExtra

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:22:10 +0000

[...] that news I’ve been following Kara Swisher as she has been keeping a close eye on what is happening which makes sense since Kara obviously has people willing to talk [...]

By: Bartz Holds First Exec Offsite, As the Yahoos Turn (and Twist in the Wind)! | Kara Swisher | BoomTown | AllThingsD

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:27:09 +0000

[...] a recent smaller meeting of top execs, for example, Bartz went around the table and asked what each did, making comments as it went [...]

By: Pat Farrell

Pat Farrell — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:21:09 +0000

While the movie reference is more current, Digital Equipment Corp had a matrix management mess back in the 80s. It probably led to their subsequent disappearance into Compaq, and then Compaq’s disappearance into HP.

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 22:02:09 +0000

note to carol: 80% of the people at yahoo aren’t doing anything but collecting a paycheck

they have no sense of revenue, p&l or producing output

By: Mark Omega

Mark Omega — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:37:19 +0000

Notes on beating The Matrix…

By: Mark Omega

Mark Omega — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:36:44 +0000

You could always take the DMT-pill, instead…:) Love, Neo(dynium)