Carol Bartz: The ALL CAPS CEO - AllThingsD
Wed, Jan 14th, 2009
"Frankly, the company could use a little management." Uttering those words Tuesday afternoon during a conference call to discuss her appointment as CEO of Yahoo (YHOO), Carol Bartz ushered in a new era at the company. Known for occasionally opening Autodesk executive staff meetings with a "Tell me why I shouldn’t fire the whole lot of you," she’s no milquetoast. She’s a cancer survivor. And she’s the person who rebuilt Autodesk, after putting down a rebellion of programmers bent on undermining her. "Failure is not in her vocabulary," Autodesk product manager Tony Peach said of Bartz back in 2004.
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Here is a story, in full, by the always terrific G. Pascal Zachary, which appeared in The Wall Street Journal in 1992, about the then newly-hired CEO Carol Bartz and the "theocracy of hackers" at then-wacky Autodesk.
After being silent all day about the selection of Carol Bartz as its new CEO, Yahoo finally got around to confirming the reports. It also announced that president Sue Decker...
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Yahoo has hired Carol Bartz to become the company’s new Chief Executive, replacing the outgoing Jerry Yang. Bartz served as the CEO of Autodesk...
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