Carol Bartz
Carol Bartz
Carol Ann Bartz is an American business executive, the former president and CEO of the internet services company Yahoo!, and former chairman, president, and CEO at architectural and engineering design software company Autodesk...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth28 August 1948
CountryUnited States of America
became digital excited gotten less male manager peers promoted sales within work
I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.
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My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
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The difficult economic climate affected our business more than we anticipated late in our April quarter, ... Our business in Asia fell below our expectations and Discreet continued to experience selling pressure. Despite the shortfall, we remain confident in our strategy to help customers gain greater value from digital design data and look forward to providing more details on our results call.
affect change farther hard surprised thinking
It's very, very hard to affect culture. And you can get surprised thinking you're farther down the path of change than you really are because, frankly, most of us like the way things are.
almost broad chat finance yahoo
Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
yahoo
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
We're so overburdened with all the bullshit in the system.
perfection balance balls
I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.
thinking long people
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
running ipads apples
If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
phones boards chairman
I've just been fired over the phone by Yahoo's chairman of the board
balance needs able
You need not feel guilty about not being able to keep your life perfectly balanced. Juggling everything is too difficult. All you really need to do is catch it before it hits the floor.
smart passion years
It'll take a smart person with passion over someone with years of experience any day. People with intelligence and passion will get the problem solved, no matter what.
bad board committed members
When trouble strikes, which it always does - bad economy, bad quarter, activists, takeover - when trouble strikes, those board members who don't understand or are not committed are not helpful.