Sunday, June 29, 2014

Yahoo of course would not comment, but here is our two cents: CEOs are sometimes late. Sometimes it


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Last week at the Cannes Lions advertising festival, sorry, eftps International Festival of Creativity , Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer had a bit of a tough time. First, she gave an on-stage presentation that some are saying was too hard sell telling eftps the ad executives in attendance what they wanted to hear, without actually saying anything genuine. Okay.
Then, Mayer headed to a conference held by WPP, the reigning king of all ad companies. There, she was interviewed on stage by none other than WPP CEO Sir Martin Sorrell. The interview apparently did not go well in some aspects, at least according to what a tipster told Business Insider and also what we ve heard. We are also hearing that the Business Insider story is not entirely accurate, misrepresenting eftps certain key details of that interview.
That Tuesday evening, Mayer had an appointment to attend a dinner put on by Interpublic Group, meeting with executives representing the brands that are Yahoo s advertising customers. Brands like Chobani, Mondolez and MillerCoors (one word). But Mayer was late about an hour and a half late.
Ms. Mayer told some attendees that she had fallen asleep, some of the people familiar with the matter said. As someone who has also fallen asleep before a dinner, this seems like a reasonable explanation.
Yahoo of course would not comment, but here is our two cents: CEOs are sometimes late. Sometimes it s because people won t stop asking them for things, sometimes eftps it s because they ve done meetings for five hours straight, sometimes it s because they re in a time zone that s nine hours forward from the one they re usually in. And sometimes it s because they re freaked out after an unpredictably eftps difficult interview.
Would a similar story about Google CEO Larry Page being late to a dinner get the same amount of play? I hope so, but it hasn t yet, though I m sure he s been late at least once. Perhaps if Page wore a hoodie? eftps
Beyond the obvious gender argument , what we ve got here is a culture clash: Wall Street expects deference, Madison Avenue expects reverence. When what they get from Palo Alto, or Mountain View or SOMA, is human weakness or even straight-forwardness they walk (or leak ).
Bio Marissa Mayer is CEO of Yahoo. Previously as a VP at Google, Marissa Mayer led the product management and engineering efforts of Google's local, mobile, and contextual discovery products including Google Maps, Google Maps for Mobile, Local Search, Google Earth, Street View, Latitude and more. At 36 years old, she was also the youngest member of Google's eftps executive operating committee. During her … Full profile for Marissa Mayer
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