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With the departure of Wenda Millard, head of Yahoo's graphical ads business, the turnover over the last year in top management at the troubled internet company has now reached a scary 38%. [Here's the line-up from a year ago, with the casualties scratched out.] And it's not over yet. Two of Terry Semel's key lieutenants, Toby Coppel and Jeff Weiner, must have lost influence since their patron resigned as chief exec. Coppel was to have found refuge from the infighting in Sunnyvale by heading the internet media pioneer's European business, but I hear he hasn't yet moved. Another possible casualty, according to Kara Swisher of All Things Digital: the company's unpopular human resources head, Libby Sartain. Though one has to assume that Yahoo, now under founder Jerry Yang, will want to avoid, at least for the next few weeks, the impression of complete management disarray.
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With the departure of Wenda Millard, head of Yahoo's graphical ads business, the turnover over the last year in top management at the troubled internet company has now reached a scary 38%. [Here's the line-up from a year ago, with the casualties scratched out.] And it's not over yet. Two of Terry Semel's key lieutenants, Toby Coppel and Jeff Weiner, must have lost influence since their patron resigned as chief exec. Coppel was to have found refuge from the infighting in Sunnyvale by heading the internet media pioneer's European business, but I hear he hasn't yet moved. Another possible casualty, according to Kara Swisher of All Things Digital: the company's unpopular human resources head, Libby Sartain. Though one has to assume that Yahoo, now under founder Jerry Yang, will want to avoid, at least for the next few weeks, the impression of complete management disarray.
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7:49 AM on Mon Jun 25 2007
By Nick Denton
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It's hard not to think of Yahoo! as a sinking ship...Yet in spite of the mass departures, "The Street's" Jim Cramer still holds out hope that Yahoo! can be great again:
[www.thestreet.com]
He might have a point...if there's anyone left to run it once the exodus slows.
You mean under Jerry Yang, of course. Easy to get them confused, except not really.
Dan Finnigan is still listed under the current view of the Yahoo Management Team. Might need to change that attrition back to 35%
What would fix Yahoo at this point? The whole MySpace thing? Or maybe buying Facebook?
Please oh please let it be Marco Boerries, who has consistently demonstrated why he is among the least liked and respected of Yahoo execs. I work in his depressing and pathetic beehive, and can confidently say that I know of nobody among the hundreds of people in his group who respects him, which of course has everything to do with his own lack of both trust and respect for anybody except his direct bosses, to whom he sucks up like a barnacle.
Jerry, Sue, Filo are you DEAF?
connected lifer - get a new job and quit bitching about the people who pay your salary!
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