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She was a bad CEO by the measure of ALL CEOS, not just Yahoo:

https://www.inc.com/geoffrey-james/top-10-management-mistake...

https://qz.com/314225/everything-we-learned-from-marissa-may...

https://www.forbes.com/sites/mikemyatt/2015/11/20/marissa-ma...

http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/262704/why-wont-anyone-tal...

http://gizmodo.com/heres-what-happened-to-all-of-marissa-may...

https://www.thestreet.com/story/13332877/1/yahoo-ceo-mayer-i...

http://variety.com/2016/digital/features/marissa-mayer-yahoo...

http://www.foxbusiness.com/features/2015/12/30/worst-ceos-20...

http://www.growthbusiness.co.uk/the-worst-ceos-in-corporate-...

https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/272469

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-wh...

Do you want more?

These are all outsiders second-guessing and, in many cases, just making shit up.

I was there. I saw the sea change she brought into the company. Morale skyrocketed, after the company was just drifting around for years. Compared to Carol Bartz, she was a CEO extraordinaire.

Outsiders are often able to see much more clearly what's really going on with a dying organization.

Well, we should just listen to outsiders then, right? Who cares about what's happening internally when the outsiders see it all?

I remember reading Eric Jackson's screeds and he was clueless as hell.

I'm thinking I'm going to listen to the many, many outside experts, plus what I see myself reported by other insiders, vs. one anonymous insider I run across on a site who worked for her and appears to have bias.

That is your prerogative, and I wish you all the luck. I didn't work for her, I was 3 levels below her and experienced the sea-change when she came. After suffering through the likes of Semel, she was a huge, positive change.

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