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
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,
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.
banks money
I like banks because they keep my money safe, but I don't want to talk about banks 12 times a year.
great people work
I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
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.
The fact that you can crawl the web is a commodity.
company manage people totally
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
silicon valley
The most successful company in Silicon Valley is Apple, and they're the most secretive.
almost broad chat finance yahoo
Back when 'social' had a broad definition, you could almost say that Yahoo Finance chat was the first social product.
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.
grew town
I grew up in a small town in Wisconsin. I never thought I'd be where I am. I never thought I'd have bling that I bought.
among digital equipment manager next promoted sales
My first day as a manager was at Digital Equipment in Atlanta. I was a sales rep. I was promoted from among my peers, so one day I was a peer, and the next day I was their boss.