Sunday, January 25, 2009
Carol Bartz’s First-Week-at-Yahoo Memo to the Troops
With Yahoo earnings expected to be dismal when the company reports fourth-quarter earnings this Tuesday afternoon, new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is going to have to hang tough.
And she certainly seems capable of that. At her first all-hands meeting, Bartz said, according to one report others have since confirmed to BoomTown, that she would “drop-kick to f***ing Mars” employees who leak to the press.
That threat sent little shivers up BoomTown’s spine too, which is why it must have taken so long for her first-week missive to Yahoo staff worldwide to get to my inbox.
Well played, Ms. Bartz, well played.
But turnabout is also fair play…
