“Occasionally I write articles titled ‘Why CEO X was fired,'” Horace Dediu writes for asymco.
“These are allegorical stories. I don’t base the opinion on evidence but on perception of what’s wrong with a particular company’s strategy and then try to trace the point of strategic failure which should have triggered management change. Of course, the reasons are often something else, probably mundane or ‘political’ in nature,” Dediu writes. “The objective therefore is to analyze strategy and more precisely strategy failure.”
Dediu writes, “So, Yahoo! What went wrong?”
Read more in the full article, in which Deidu concludes that Yahoo with or without Bartz “is still dying,” here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Kristian” for the heads up.]
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