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This Yahoo Leader’s Key to an Impactful Career? Fix What’s Broken

Everwise

From there, Bui-Pham moved towards project and people management during the dot-com bubble, ultimately landing her current job as the VP, Operations and Chief of Staff of Publisher Products at Yahoo. in Chemical Engineering leading up to Chief of Staff of Publisher Products at Yahoo. to teach and do research at a University.

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10 resources I enjoyed in February 2013

Jane Hart

One of the hot topics on the Web over the last week or so has been Marissa Meyer’s decision to terminate working at home for Yahoo employees. Thanks to an internal memo leaked to Kara Swisher by a Yahoo employee, we have insight into a recent decision by their C-Suite. “Edicts like the one from the Head of Yahoo!

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Hire the ‘loud’?

Clark Quinn

In thinking about how organizations can ‘learn’, it strikes me that everyone needs to be simultaneously learning and teaching. The recent story of Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo, struck me as an interesting case. Both of these would be good outcomes for Yahoo. How does that happen? to have folks sharing more.

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How to Keep Business Leaders From Leaving

KnowledgeCity

The likes of Meta, Yahoo!, Marissa Mayer left as CEO of Yahoo! The Great Resignation of Women Leaders Susan Wojcicki’s exit from YouTube is indicative of Fortune 500 companies hemorrhaging women leaders. In technology, the ranks are even thinner. and IBM have all been influenced by resigning women leaders.

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Silicon Valley Parents Question Value of Technology in Learning. Should We?

Dashe & Thomson

In Silicon Valley, the chief technology officer of eBay sends his children to the Waldorf School of the Peninsula , a nine-classroom school, and so do employees of Google, Apple, Yahoo, and Hewlett-Packard. … the school’s chief teaching tools are anything but high-tech: pens and paper, knitting needles and, occasionally, mud.

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Learning to Lead in the Time of Disruption

The Performance Improvement Blog

Just look at what happened to Blockbuster , Polaroid , and (most recently) Yahoo. Effective leaders will need to be able to adapt to such a wide variety of different contexts, conditions, and situations that it will be increasingly difficult to simply teach "how to lead." Organizations must be learning constantly to ensure survival.

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Friday Finds: The Best of Learning, Design & Technology | April 26, 2019

Mike Taylor

Learning by teaching others is extremely effective—a new study tested a key reason why. In this study, researchers suggest that ‘the benefits of the learning-by-teaching strategy are attributable to retrieval practice; that is, the robust learning-by-teaching strategy works but only when the teaching involves retrieving the taught materials.