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Culture Change is More Than Skin Deep

The Performance Improvement Blog

Marissa Mayer , new CEO of Yahoo, received notoriety recently when she instituted a new policy that ended employees working from home. However, the action may have been part of Mayer’s plan to change the culture of a company that was losing market share and stock value.

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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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Guide to copyright-free images and other resources

easygenerator

Death to the stock photo. A website with links to other free stock photo and video websites. This is a search engine for free stock photos. A ton of free stock photos. Some them have watermarks of commercial stock photo websites. Stock photo’s for personal and commercial use. Xpert attribution.

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Fired Over the Phone

CLO Magazine

As Susan Burnett, senior vice president of talent and organization development at Yahoo!, smiles outward from the cover of our current issue and on the front page of this website, news comes that Yahoo! According to various news sources, on the way out she sent an email to Yahoo!’s Today sees the release of a Yahoo!

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LearnTrends: The Immernet Singularity

Experiencing eLearning

Maybe there is a better term than “manage&# for riding the wave of information… Fundamental shift from Stocks to Flows of information: you don’t stockpile information, it flows around you. Knowledge Sharing Spaces (SharePoint, Blackboard, Yahoo Groups). i-web = immernet = immersive internet.

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Don’t Wait Until Everything Is 100% Perfect to Release It

Adobe Captivate

They knew that the end user was not interested in stock prices, latest news or what was trending, just a simple search box. Compare that to Bing or Yahoo? Take Google as a great example, they realised that all their end user needed to get started was a web page with a simple search bar located in the centre of the page.

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Search

Tony Karrer

For this purpose, we recommend Ask.com or Yahoo! That last comment is quite interesting - and while I'm not sure why, I personally don't use meta search engines, but I will periodically check other search engines such as Ask and Yahoo to see what they have to say on a topic. We no longer recommend using any meta-search engines.

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