Comments on: What CEO skills should Yahoo look for?

Yahoo can pick a CEO for a bold new vision or the ability to execute the company's strategy--or something else altogether. What's the best approach?

[Spartan_458]

Probably someone who knows how to run the company. They won't have another offer like the Microsoft offer. They screwed up badly.

[Sanjiv Swarup]

There is still hope . They can go back to Microsoft. They can sell out to Google. They can buy zoho , edeskonline or other futuristic online services.

[PacificGatePost]

YAHOO! NEW CEO CANDIDATES - Please READ the following letter and SIGN IT. We the shareholders require your acknowledgement before making out decision.

http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/03/letter-to-ceos-of-fortune-1000-cos.html

While oversight currently means carelessness bordering on abuse, it should mean DUE DILIGENCE, oversight and good governance.

[HighwayHome]

Whatever they decide, I hope they redesign their site and bring into the 21st Century. Their Draconian looking home page is symbolic of their stale image.

[Shankland]

You should see the flame mail they get when they change their pages. It's hard to satisfy the early adopters and the ordinary folks.

[Orion Blastar]

The next CEO of Yahoo needs to have servant leadership skills, stewardship, participatory management, positive enforcement, and not a typical classical management leader or manager.

Yahoo needs to improve quality control to cut down on expenses and make partnerships with more ISPs like AT&T, Verizon, MSN, Sprint, to bundle their Yahoo services with the ISP's services in exchange for licensing fees.

Heck I'm free, elect me as CEO of Yahoo. :)

[Orion Blastar]

Any CEO worth his/her own salt needs to read this as well:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Psionic_Mind_Over_Matter

[AppleSuxLeo]

One that can fully open his eyes would be a start.

[knowles2]

Yahoo needs someone bold visonary and has experteses in bother media, technology and advertisment, Someone who is understated but knows how to talk to the press. They need to appear cool and relax in public.

In private he needs to be someone know how to slap around a few people, including board memeber who want sale out. He someone wipe the barriers that excist between the different department.
And they need some who can put the cool back into Yahoo.

How ever I think the shareholders and board members will go for someone who will prepare the company to either break it up and sale is off in chunks or sell it all to Microsoft.

[AppleSuxLeo]

Look for a leader with both Yin AND Yang !

[napaspa]

Yahoo never fails to execute. They are such a bureaucratic disaster that no one over there can get anything accomplished. Dealing with yahoo as a large online advertiser is painful.

[Sumatra-Bosch]

He needs to have a healthy disdain for all things Microsoft.

Likely the board will pick a twit to sell it off to MSFT whence the entire population of worthwhile employees will jump off the roof and the cron jobs will kick in bricking the operations.

Silly investors, didn't Warren Buffet tell you there was nothing in that Internet thing?

[rcardona2k]

Should Yahoo! google for their new CEO?