Comments on: Yahoo search committee head leaves board as CEO inquiry starts

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:38:06 +0000

Maybe Loeb needs to go. This is how I see it: Loeb is like that child in the car on a family trip who won’t stop whining because his parents wouldn’t stop for ice cream. It happened. Say it once. Stay and support or leave.

If you misrepresent your resume at that level, sure it’s grounds for something, but it ain’t so cut and dry.

What Yahoo! needs is a head down approach. A new leader has been appointed and his initiatives are being carried out. Employees need to work hard and do what Thompson asks.

What a new CEO would do to Yahoo! Is cause more uncertainty and lower morale which won’t help talent retention and acquisition.

And come on…who really cares what his resume says? A resume is just a bunch of selling points put together by the one who is doing the selling. Yes, you can’t flat out lie, but if you’re so concerned with the statements in it, do a more thorough job at vetting them in the hiring process.

What you do or did is far more important than what you say you do or did. Look to Thompson’s work at PayPal if there is concern.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 10 May 2012 12:21:34 +0000

If you misrepresent your resume at that level, sure it’s grounds for something, but it ain’t so cut and dry.

What Yahoo! needs is a head down approach. A new leader has been appointed and his initiatives are being carried out. Employees need to work hard and do what Thompson asks.

What a new CEO would do to Yahoo! Is cause more uncertainty and lower morale which won’t help talent retention and acquisition.

And come on…who really cares what his resume says? A resume is just a bunch of selling points put together by the one who is selling him/herself. Yes, you can’t flat out lie, but if you’re so concerned with the statements in it, do a more thorough job at vetting them in the hiring process.

What you do or did is far more important than what you say you do or did. Look to Thompson’s work at Paypal if there is concern.

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 09 May 2012 11:03:18 +0000

A three person committee avoids putting any one person in the position of delivering bad news.

By: Ralph Haygood

Ralph Haygood — Wed, 09 May 2012 03:36:51 +0000

You had me at “a three-person special committee to investigate its CEO’s academic credentials.” That, all by itself, is insane. If it took three-person special committees to verify people’s academic credentials, hardly anyone would ever be hired to do anything anywhere.