Terry Semel fostered a culture of entourage mentality that still characterizes Y's uber-rich and uber-out of touch Board and top execs. They can't make decisions because no one is willing to take responsibility, and everyone is insulated in layers of needless headcount, e.g. my people will set up those meetings with your people, or I'll dial-in from the Jet.

Outsiders may not realize that the successive integration failures and departures of great, good and average employees have left behind a mostly useless, scared-to-lose-their-job mediocre mass motivated by fear and jealous of the elite independently wealthy who don't need to work, don't really want to work, but absolutely need somewhere to go every day, so they stay at Y and impede true innovation, e.g. Fayaad, Garlinghouse, Patel and make operational execution a joke, e.g. Zod, Fayaad, Weiner AND Yang and Decker, anyone?

Exactly. Sue Decker is a fraud and should be fired. While she rammed through a large raise for herself as the new "President," the company was floundering without direction or accountability, and her bonus is guaranteed, unlike the rank and file. Disgusting.

Jerry deserves a lot of blame, but Sue deserves more. Jerry is a founder and can be expected to be emotional, but Sue is supposed to be the seasoned adult providing oversight. Yeah right!

Perhaps she's too distracted by losing half her ill-got millions in her divorce.

Wrong. Yahoo! has as good or better data than Google in both depth (length of time) and breadth (services, media, platforms), so the problem at Yahoo! has not been lack of data. The problem has been a failure of managers to execute the data mining into actual serving software that increased revenue.

No one mentions Usama Fayyad, Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer as the responsible party, and that shocks me. He arrived at Yahoo! with bold promises and powerful insights years ago, and yet the RPS benefits never materialized, even after the hodgepodge Panama. Shouldn't somebody ask him why…hinthint Owen.