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Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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I spent a few years as a management consultant. Consultants are almost never hired to provide truly objective analysis. In most cases, they're hired to "back-up the viewpoint of a given executive". This is done by the executive to hedge the political risk required to go through with their action. They can point to McK when they defend their strategy to the board and then throw them under the bus if things don't pan o…

I wonder why if this is the case that someone hasn’t tried to create a “discount” management consulting service which aims to give management cover, but without all the first class travel and high living. It can’t cost that much to put together a flashy powerpoint presentation.

The same reason there aren't "discount" Rolls-Royces:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veblen_good

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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The OP says "Fortune 5". The candidates are Walmart, Exxon Mobil, Chevron, Berkshire Hathaway, and Apple. Which one of those has super bowl ads and uses Akamai? There's your answer.

and the commenter also says in another thread: "I run an entire data center of Slackware Linux on Dell servers." so, definitely not apple. which leads me to think all that is BS and they just have too much time on their hands.

I own my own company. In fact, I own two companies.

One of my customers is a fortune-5. I am contracted and I have a small team that I manage within.

If I must explain, I'm a serial entrepreneur. I've owned 3-4 companies in my past including a cable TV company too. It would be more accurate to say I have my hands in many things with not much time on my hands.

THe fortune-5 company is an automotive company genius.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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and the commenter also says in another thread: "I run an entire data center of Slackware Linux on Dell servers." so, definitely not apple. which leads me to think all that is BS and they just have too much time on their hands.

Apple using Slackware on Dells would be such a shocker?

No, I have my own hosting company. It is not related to the Fortune-5 I was speaking of. To clarify, I own an IT consulting company and I have been on contract with the fortune-5. I supply contract heads else where too - H1Bs.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Things we need: 1. There needs to be a viable YouTube alternative. 2. They should take their experience with NFL streaming to expand that market for the NFL and add in other TV type content. This can be delivered through apps and apple tv like devices. College football is a market that would do well with this. Make a deal with the NCAA. It is impossible for cord cutters to watch their college team unless they are on watchespn or fox sports go. And even then you need to borrow your credentials. 3. Facebook M, Google Now, Siri, Cortana.. Yahoo needs to have a play here. You might integrate this tightly with #2.

Buy and/or integrate: Crackle, Pandora, Roku, maybe Spotify, Cinemax.

Why? All these need to be integrated into a consistent platform, each offer ad revenue opportunity, consolidation. In addition you can ramp up subscription revenues or on demand revenue.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Prestige is part of what you're paying for, though.

That is not part, it is ALL that you are paying for. What is the difference between McK and Deloitte? One has Harvard grads the other has Cornell grads. The analysis is the same, but one is just wrapped up in a prettier package and more prestige.

Are there not managers looking for cover that don’t care about prestige? I can understand the need for cover when making controversial decisions, but not why it needs to be expensive.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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> "I'm just here for the money"...it's disheartening Yaa, how awful...because my landlord accepts a share of my company CEO's "vision", as does my grocer > Widespread cynicism will kill high-tech What a laugh that the heirs, the LP's, the VC's and seeds and angels aren't the cynics, your unhappiness is the twenty-something wage slaves slaving away at all hours building products are now disheartening, because they're…

I like that you are saying people in their 20s making 6 figures are wage slaves. That is a worldview I never really even considered, so you have opened my mind to new possibilities.

making 6 figures can provide a comfortable life but yes definitely a wage slave. I have worked for a few of the super rich and they could easily blow a few million just trying to watch their sporting team while on their yacht. Although this is in the past when they would have a private jet on standby to fly in a copy of the game. Now sat comms are good enough they blow similar amounts without any thought on other things.

Re: Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Faces Morale Challenge

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Saying that Google has search wrapped up today is about like saying that BlackBerry had the smartphone market wrapped up in 2007. The space is ripe for upheaval.

Where exactly do you see search going that Google isn't already super invested in (NLP, speech recognition, Google Now integration)?

What about search going social. It seems to me that I find a lot of my information on the social media now like Facebook. It just seems like i search a lot less now than i used to. Its not that people search on social media. I get fed information relentlessly and i have little time or energy left to google anything.
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