Coach Carol: Are They Crying? There’s No Crying! There’s No Crying at Yahoo!
Mon, Jan 26th, 2009
One of the first things that Carol Bartz said when she made her public debut as new Yahoo CEO was that everyone should give the company "some friggin’ breathing room."
Some heard "frickin’," while others "frackin’."
Whatever the exact invective Bartz used, the tough talk was presumably designed for maximum impact to impose a definitive I’m-in-charge-here leadership style that had been sorely lacking at Yahoo for a long time.
Bartz has been employing the creative curse word a lot of late, trying to shape up Yahoo like Tom Hanks-playing the grumpily drunk but effective coach Jimmy Dugan-did to the Rockford Peaches in "A League of Their Own."
But she is certainly going to need a lot more than that kind of mental mojo to get the company going.
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