10 Moves Mayer Should Make to Save Yahoo!


10 Moves Mayer Should Make to Save Yahoo!

 

3. At this time, employees and the media will suggest numerous strategies to develop Yahoo!’s fortune. Instead of paying any attention to them, focus on developing a small and talented team of the best engineers, product managers and designers and encourage them to build something different that will be shipped in the next few months. Keep doing this while seeing Yahoo! moving to the top.

4. Stop seeing and promoting Yahoo! as a digital media company, which doesn’t convey any meaning. Develop a punch line, a goal that everyone can easily visualize and which clearly defines the company’s goal. Krishnan suggests “A Yahoo app on every home screen”.

5. He says that Mayer should abandon using Blackberry phones as the official devices at Yahoo!. Android devices or iPhones should replace them. He even suggests firing people who protest this move. Internal IT and development tools should be upgraded to what the modern startups use.