“With Carol Bartz out at Yahoo!, the list of CEOs on the brink shrinks to four,” Scott Moritz writes for TheStreet.
“Bartz’s nearly three year run as Yahoo! chief came to an end Tuesday when she received a call from Yahoo! chairman Roy Bostock, who apparently told her it was time for a change,” Moritz writes. “But Bartz isn’t alone… Here are four other tech CEOs in the hot seat who may get a similar call from their boards. The ranking is in order of stock declines for the year.”
4. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (Microsoft is down 8% so far this year.)
3. Cisco CEO John Chambers (Cisco is down 24% this year.)
2. HP CEO Leo Apotheker (HP is down 44% this year.)
1. RIM half-CEOs Jim Balsillie and Mike Lazaridis (RIM has dropped 46% this year so far.)
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MacDailyNews Take: Leave Ballmer alone! He just needs more time to implement his strategy, which we like. We like it a lot. Microsoft shareholders and board members should remain catatonic and let Ballmer run the show for as long as it takes!