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
thinking long people
If you sit quiet long enough, you find out what people really think.
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.
yahoo
Yahoo is a company that is very strong in content.
happens people somebody
Organizations can get in the way of innovation, because if people are all bound up, and if they don't know if they get to make the decision or somebody else, and if they do, what happens to them, and so on and so forth.
base both fact huge majority move percent run sides ultimately
I think we (will) have a big run on both sides for a long time. Considering the fact that ultimately the majority of our base should move to 3D, and we are only 10 percent there, that is a huge opportunity.
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.
morning
I always do my firing in the morning because that's when I'm fresh.
We're so overburdened with all the bullshit in the system.
good hunt layoffs people
We are always on the hunt for some really good people with some good ideas, ... There will be some layoffs because there are some synergies and there will be people doing the same thing.
child learned motherhood until
I didn't have my first child until I was 40. I actually learned about motherhood from management.
change constantly interested needs
Any leader needs to be constantly interested in what's going on in the world, and constantly ready - even when things are going well - to change.
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.
actions business financial forward light move necessary strategic taken
In light of our financial results, the actions taken today, while painful, are necessary to recalibrate the business and move forward with our strategic direction,