My post yesterday about the treatment of former Yahoo sales chief Wenda Harris Millard as she left the company certainly resulted in a spate of calls to me from Yahoos past and present.
That included Millard herself, who called me back this morning from New York to talk about her leaving the company for another high-profile [...]
When I wrote that Wenda Harris Millard had better watch her back last week, in a post I did about my educated guesses about further executive departures at Yahoo, I had no idea that the struggling company was that quick about anything. In fact, the longtime ad sales chief was out by this weekend, moving on to another job at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia as its president of media.
While it’s corporate sport to focus on the ins and outs of the departure of Terry Semel–was he pushed or did he motor out of Yahoo on his own or, the truth, a little of both?–it’s probably a better idea to look at what will come in the days ahead for Yahoo’s ranks.
Sources tell me [...]
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