10 suggestions from former Yahoo employees to new CEOs

Yahoo's new CEO is the former vice president of Google's beauty, Marisa Meyer. Recently this news is very popular, but I am more interested in the Ten Suggestions that Yahoo's former employees gave to the new CEO. I think these 10 suggestions are very suitable for most IT companies. Let's talk about what I think of these 10 suggestions.

1. Cut 10 thousand people.

80/20 rules are everywhere, and 80% of a company's output is basically created by 20% of its employees. So, brave enough to eliminate those useless people and never use Confucian ideas to seek peace and harmony, confucius will only make you mediocre and inaction.

Architects (or development managers) and project managers have hundreds of times more responsibility-oriented engineers than they do.CodeAnd delay the project.

2. Hire product managers and engineers.

An excellent product manager constructs a competitive and profitable product, and engineers are the specific implementers of the product.

3. Build an excellent army.

An agile team composed of product personnel, designers, and engineers quickly developed a competitive product, which is very exciting, just like being beaten.

A good employee can win over five employees, especially engineers. The drag and pull of a person will spread to the entire team and let your team finish their work.

4. Propose a new vision.

For example, "becoming a world-class leading company" is not as good as "Making all smartphones use our map software.

5. Comprehensively improve the company's internal it level.

The company mailbox has dozens of spam mails a day. It takes half a day for the company's colleagues to make an order and upload a file. Let's discard old and outdated information systems, enable all new systems that are suitable for you, such as email, ERP, and CRM. Some systems are even completely free of charge.

If you have the conditions, send a smartphone to each employee. As a reward, a smartphone can do many things in addition to playing games, for example, sending and receiving emails and reading valuable information in a timely manner.

6. Shut up the media.

This is suitable for large companies. In fact, it is very important to make good use of the media.

7. We release code instead of PPT.

We have always done a lot of dazzling PPT, but it is a solution, but it is often quite different from the finished product at the end. More attention may be paid to the interface, process, and technical implementation, which may be more conducive to the success of the product.

8. Clean up existing products.

We have made a lot of products and claimed to have a powerful core. forget it all. The technological update speed has greatly affected your previous products.

Sort out new product ideas, clarify the profitable business model, and invest new and strong technical strength to start a new journey.

9. Embrace open source.

The development of technology has given us more and more wheels. Do we need to reinvent the wheel? No. What's important is that you must use these wheels skillfully and quickly so that you can run quickly. Of course, you must be able to make good use of it.

10. Good coffee.

The employee cares about the company, not only how much salary you have paid, but also how many days you have chatted with him, how many times you have eaten, and how many cups of coffee you have.

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Attached to the original text on csdn (In addition, the comment in the original text is also a bit interesting ):

1. Cut off 10 thousand people. Marc Andreessen may be right. (The founder of Netscape thinks that Yahoo has 18000 to 6000 people. Start with anyone with titles like "architect" and "Project Manager. The Personnel Department is also a good place to go.

2. Hire a front-line product manager and engineer at full cost. This often requires young people who are very popular with Google and Facebook.ProgramStaff (may only be 23 years old) 5 times or more of the original salary, and to give the opposite company an outrageous retention contract to resolutely fight back. A really good engineer can be listed on the Yahoo roster with five mediocre employees.

3. The media and employees will ask you about the overall strategy and ignore them. Build a brilliant army with the best engineers, designers and product personnel, and let them launch the product of niub in the next few months, and then continue to repeat it. Nothing can boost morale more than developing a cool product that you can use.

4. Take a video and drive your bulldozer to smash Yahoo!, a big icon of a "leading digital media company. Put forward a new vision that people can really understand, such as "Let Yahoo app appear on the main screen of every device ". (Isn't that the overall strategy? -- Annotation)

5. Comprehensively improve the company's internal it level. This makes Blackberry, Yahoo's current official mobile device, a historical one, with iPhone and Android for everyone. If anyone in the IT department is opposed, they will be fired. Upgrade internal IT and development systems/tools to learn what fashion startups are using.

6. Try to shut up the media. This is important.

In 7 or 6 months, do not ask the product team to give a roadmap. First, instill the idea that "we release code rather than ppt.

8. Clear existing products. This investment is invested in maintenance and should be eliminated. Share this information with employees and the media to make public your priority. If you have any questions about the product, kill it.

9. Develop strategies and use ready-made/popular open-source tools and technologies as much as possible. If the existing project cannot meet Yahoo's needs, let employees participate in open-source project development. Do not re-invent the wheel, and do not use Yahoo's large scale and special national conditions for special reasons.

10. The coffee bar and the food in the company are all very good. This should be maintained.