Yahoo Senior Vice President Brad Garlinghouse commented the lack of focus and decisiveness at the company and a lack of accountability for executives. He further called for headcount reductions of 15% to 20% to the company’s 10,000-strong staff, divestiture of underperforming units and cancellations of redundant products.
Meanwhile at Google (Nasdaq : GOOG), Chris Sacca, who joined Google in 2003 and the head of special initiatives expressed his greatest fear is that Google could become a big company (not just in terms of headcount). He fears Google’s increased bureaucracy and unnecessary layers of management might backfire sooner or later. He proclaimed “These are the enemies of innovation“.
He has seen a few mid-level bosses evoke the traditions of Japanese management and schedule “pre-meetings” to plan, discuss, and approve what will be planned, discussed and approved at the actual meeting itself.
But Google’s culture of letting engineers and product specialists’ freedom in building great & cool stuff that user’s want might be the differentiator between Google and Yahoo. Yahoo has over 9,800 staffs while Google has over 5,600 staffs.
|
|
November 21st, 2006 by financetwitter
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Comments
Add your comment now.
Leave a Reply