Perhaps Yahoo needed a bit of discipline at the top, but "I wear a tie now" is a really bad example to illustrate "We have learnt from our mistakes".
Look at his eyes and the expression in his face. He is not comfortable and he does not believe what he is saying. He WANTS to believe it though. Or perhaps I've just watched "Lie to Me" too much.
^^ This. The guy is trying to convince himself that if yahoo plays by the old school rules, everything will be ok.
In truth, this is likely exactly what yahoo should not be doing.
They'd better start learning more and faster than just to wear ties.
I think ties are for big consolidated enterprises that are slow and difficult to move (or at least that is my prejudge). Yahoo! does not need ties, they need to move fast and get in top of Google, MS, Facebook and Twitter. They have to re-invent themselves if they want to survive.
wow. so, now they "get it". the tie thing, that is.