So, which name did you choose? Odds are you did not pick the right one, if you did not cheat!
Carol Bartz made the remark during a recent interview with USA Today. According to the article, the interview took place in front of a live audience, which makes me wonder how much she was answering questions and how much she was playing to the audience. In any event, I found that remark very interesting, along with several others she made, including:
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.
Brava, Ms. Bartz!
And these:
- I would never do anything that I didn't enjoy. That's the whole thing. I couldn't go run a fruit business. That wouldn't do it for me. As long as you are inspired by it, you can learn anything.
- Yahoo is the largest media company in the world. We are twice as large as the nearest competitor. We do it through innovative technology and bringing people information they need to manage their lives. We serve up—and these numbers I hope will astound you—10 billion ads a day.
- Was there the word "economist" on my business card?
- To be honest, we don't understand what goes on in Washington. A lot of rules keep changing. That erodes confidence. It is far from a healthy, vibrant economy.
- Absolutely. Listen, just because enough people weren't reading about the oil spill, we wouldn't pull it off the page. That's again what editors are for, that's what people's brains are for, to make those kind of judgment calls.
Let me just go on the record here to say Bartz would make a great guest for the Not My Job quiz on Wait, Wait...Don't Tell Me!, NPR's "oddly informative news quiz."
