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.
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.
company manage people totally
The way you manage your company and the way you manage your people has to be totally different.
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.
interact people
Social does not just equal Facebook. Social is how people interact anywhere.
however information people
If people really don't want ads, they can go find their information however it is they want. It's a free world on that matter.
great people work
I'm kind of a Midwestern snob. I think we're just nice people and have a great work ethic.
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.
became digital excited gotten less male manager peers promoted sales within work
I became a sales manager at Digital Equipment, promoted from within the sales team. My peers were less than excited that I had gotten the job, especially one of my male peers who said he just wasn't going to work for a woman.
business customers deep demands face industry keen knowledge understanding
(Bass) has a deep knowledge of the industry and the business as well as a keen understanding of our customers and the demands they face every day.
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.
beat death family garbage husband listen love mother southern
My husband doesn't listen because his mother didn't make him listen. What am I going to do, beat him? I mean: firstborn of a southern family? Firstborn boy? Please. I mean, I love him to death, but is he going to take the garbage out? No.
drove fed funny raised
My grandmother raised me. She was a real no-nonsense but very funny lady. I drove tractors, made hay, milked cows, fed the chicken, fed the pigs.