At Yahoo, Marissa Mayer tried to emulate Google's management style - Siyalla
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Description: Marissa Mayer says she based her own management strategies on her former bosses at Google 'hopefully with less yelling'. Yippee's previous CEO is Marissa Mayer, who was one of the main workers at Google. Mayer was as of late met by The New York Times.
Date: 2018-04-19T03:30:02+00:00

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# At Yahoo, Marissa Mayer tried to emulate Google’s management style

It was about setting clear expectations, said Marissa Mayer, pictured. (Brian Ach/Getty Images)

### Marissa Mayer says she based her own management strategies on her former bosses at Google ‘hopefully with less yelling’

- Yippee’s previous CEO is Marissa Mayer, who was one of the main workers at Google. Mayer was as of late met by The New York Times.
- Mayer disclosed to The Times that she displayed her administration style at Yahoo on Google originators Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s authority techniques. One illustration is setting clear desires for representatives.
- All things considered, Mayer wasn’t so all around enjoyed or exceptionally evaluated as CEO of Yahoo; while Page had a high endorsement rating as CEO of Google.

Marissa Mayer, previous CEO of Yahoo and one of the primary representatives at Google, just gave her first meeting since leaving Yahoo.

Mayer, who went separate ways with Yahoo in 2017 when the organization was sold to Verizon, talked with David Gelles for a portion of The New York Times’ Corner Office segment. One of Mayer’s most fascinating remarks is that she endeavored to demonstrate her initiative style at Yahoo after Google organizers Larry Page and Sergey Brin’s administration style in the beginning of Google.

Here’s Mayer: “Larry and Sergey simply shouted at us until the point when we progressed toward becoming what they required us to wind up, and complete what they should have been finished. Thus I stated, look, I’m going to simply do this process again that, ideally with less shouting.”

Mayer said she got administration mentors and guides to help shape Yahoo’s administration system.

She went on:

> “I figure you can have elevated standards as a pioneer, and insofar as they’re predictable and unmistakably conveyed, many individuals find that extremely moving. I generally recognized what Larry and Sergey needed. I recognized what great looked like to them, thus I never got disheartened by them saying, ‘Pause, I don’t think this is prepared’ or ‘I think this is excessively prepared.'”

### Mayer and Page were seen diversely as CEOs of substantial tech companies

Mayer was most likely insightful to copy Page’s authority procedures: In 2015, he was the most astounding evaluated CEO of a vast organization, as indicated by Glassdoor. (That was back when Page was still CEO of Google; after a rearrangement in 2015, he’s currently CEO of Google’s parent organization, Alphabet.)

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However Mayer just broke the main 50 on Glassdoor’s rundown of most noteworthy evaluated CEOs once in the vicinity of 2013 and 2017. Furthermore, in 2017, she was appraised the minimum agreeable tech CEO, as indicated by Owler.

Forbes detailed in 2015 that Mayer was referred to among administrators as a micromanager. “She would go line by line and settle on what date an agreement should end,” a senior official told Forbes, alluding to the terms given to contractual workers and merchants.

All things considered, some previous Yahoo workers adulated Mayer’s authority ability, for example, Jelena Woehr, who composed on Medium that Mayer dependably listened intently to representatives’ worries.

Mayer was unclear in the meeting with The Times about what she’s doing now: She’s working with an organization called Lumi Labs and has “a few thoughts in the buyer space.”

Requested her best tips on persistence by Linkedin client Karen Lippman, Meyer stated: “Build up a tough skin.”

Original article by Shana Lebowitz

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