Word: yang
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...that the movie is over, what will you devote your time to? -Jie Yang, Lafayette, CAIt has been a long ride. It has been five years of real fighting. It has been a lot of exercising self-control and determination day after day. I haven't had enough time to make a transition. I have always been working. I haven't been living for this movie and it is not my movie. I have a lot of journalistic projects that I want to purse that I have already started and I will keep doing my work...
...Because he founded the company with energy and enthusiasm, Yang may be able to help revive flagging employee morale, which has led to a number of senior-level departures this year. "The company needs internal excitement," says Ned May, lead analyst for Outsell, a California-based research and consulting firm. But analysts point out that Yang lacks the trial-by-fire management experience other top CEOs could have brought to Yahoo...
...rescue a troubled company," says May, "but there may also be no better person to drive it into the ground. History is going to look favorably on Steve Jobs, but there are lots of unwritten stories where founders weren't successful." David Smith, technology analyst at Gartner, says Yang may have too much influence for Yahoo's own good. "Founders have a special place in every company and tend to be listened to longer than they should," he says...
...noted that before Semel joined Yahoo, there had been some drifting and ambiguity about its mission. Recently, though, Butterfield said, Semel had focused Yahoo on being a communications and communities company. That's where it remains today, according to the company's mission statement, and that's where Yang and Decker are likely to focus. "What he missed was the emergence of Google and the strength a single company could gain with search," says May of Semel. "but he wasn't alone in missing that. And Yahoo remains the second largest company in this sector...
...approach Yang may take, alongside Sue Decker, who joins him as second in command, is to push for Yahoo to partner with Microsoft or a leading social networking site like MySpace to help spark some new momentum. "He can be trusted to find Yahoo a great partner or acquirer to help the company get out of its present predicament," says Rohan...