5 posts and columns on accountability

No to YESS — Yahoo Employee Satisfaction Survey Shows Morale Morass

in News on October 26, 2011 at 12:07 pm PT

Apparently, Yahoos can’t get no satisfaction.
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Is Larry Page the Consummate Anti-Social CEO?

in Social on January 21, 2011 at 1:00 am PT

Google’s new CEO isn’t much for the social Web. If he has a presence on Twitter, Facebook or LinkedIn it was created with deep privacy settings or a fake name. I couldn’t even find a fleshed-out Google profile for Larry Page.

Plurk Milking This Microsoft Thing for All It’s Worth

in News on December 17, 2009 at 6:58 am PT

As earnest as it might have been, Microsoft’s apology to Plurk, the microblogging service whose code and design it copied, has not eased the start-up’s outrage over the incident or its desire to squeeze all the PR it can out of it. Though Microsoft has taken responsibility for the offense–perpetrated by a third-party vendor with which it contracted–it has not offered accountability, says Plurk. And that makes the microblogging outfit inclined to pursue legal action, or threaten it, anyway.
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Will Tough-Talking Bartz Reorg Yahoo Soon and Finally Blue-Pill the "Matrix"?

in News on February 9, 2009 at 10:00 am PT

My favorite anecdote collected so far about new Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz is the one in which she called together two separate groups of execs who were direct reports of former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and President Sue Decker. Bartz, several sources recounted, went around the table and asked them one by one what they actually did, making various outspoken comments along the way about management. Stories like this about Bartz’s take-charge style have been ricocheting through Yahoo as she navigates the troubled company to come up with a plan to revive it. But of all the various things many employees I have talked to hope she does first is dump the “matrix” organizational structure that many at Yahoo have grown to despise.