<story><title>What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>&amp;quot; Every Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, she asked her direct reports to gather for a three-hour meeting. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Invariably, Mayer herself would be at least 45 minutes late; some calls were so delayed that Yahoo executives in Europe couldn’t hang up till after 3 a.m.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>throwawaymsft</author><text>It seems there&amp;#x27;s a pattern in how she sees other people.&lt;p&gt;* Trying to design the Yahoo logo herself in a weekend (how hard can it be?)&lt;p&gt;* Reading a children&amp;#x27;s book to a room full of employees, to stunned silence&lt;p&gt;* Disallowing remote employees but building a nursery for her child + nanny. (Do other people get Yahoo! daycare too?)&lt;p&gt;* Requiring extensive credentials for other people [Gwyneth Paltrow better have a degree!] but not bothering with background reference checks for people she wanted (Henrique de Castro, who cost Yahoo over $100M for a year&amp;#x27;s worth of shoddy work).&lt;p&gt;Believe it or not, Jobs had empathy for what the user truly needed, which gave him a killer sense of taste. I feel that&amp;#x27;s lacking here.</text></comment>
<story><title>What Happened When Marissa Mayer Tried to Be Steve Jobs</title><url>http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/21/magazine/what-happened-when-marissa-mayer-tried-to-be-steve-jobs.html?_r=0</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>waterlesscloud</author><text>&amp;quot; Every Monday at 3 p.m. Pacific, she asked her direct reports to gather for a three-hour meeting. Mayer demanded all of her staff across the world join the call, so executives from New York, where it was 6 p.m., and Europe, where it was 11 p.m. or later, would dial in, too. Invariably, Mayer herself would be at least 45 minutes late; some calls were so delayed that Yahoo executives in Europe couldn’t hang up till after 3 a.m.&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;This is completely unacceptable behavior from anyone aspiring to be an actual leader.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>phaus</author><text>Its unacceptable behavior from anyone even expecting to continue being an employee. Those meetings, when couple by her habitual tendency to miss meetings with people that weren&amp;#x27;t even a part of her company are ridiculous. It boggles my mind how someone so irresponsible, self-centered, and inconsiderate has managed to get where she&amp;#x27;s at.</text></comment>