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
banks money
I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.
contact extremely huge human time touch
I hug employees all the time. I'm a huge contact person. Touch is an extremely important part of the human condition.
fierce global good google map worth
Google is a fierce competitor. I wish I was worth a bazillion dollars; that would be really nice. They're a fierce competitor, and they're very good in search. They're very good with their global map thing.
along annual everybody felt honest positive process review
If I had my way, I wouldn't do annual reviews, if I felt that everybody would be more honest about positive and negative feedback along the way. I think the annual review process is so antiquated.
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.
interact people
Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
affected april asia below business climate confident continued customers data design despite details difficult digital discreet economic experience fell forward gain greater help late providing remain results selling strategy value
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.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
early everybody figured hire
Everybody on my team - I couldn't do their jobs. I could not. I really mean that. So I figured out early on that the way you're successful is you hire really successful people.
child learned motherhood until
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
good managing
Managing is a tough job. When you're young, you just think it's a natural progression - I'm good at this, so I'm going to be good at that - and it's not that way at all.
business customers deep demands face industry keen knowledge understanding
(Bass) has a deep knowledge of the industry and the business as well as a keen understanding of our customers and the demands they face every day.