Ms. Bartz talks about her childhood career: Bar girl turned Yahoo CEO

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Carol Bartz, Yahoo's chief executive, Bartz an interview with the women's edition of "Mr. Vogue" (Esquire). In her interview, Bartz talked about her childhood, her career, and her many ideas about her work. In an interview, Ms. Bartz said Yahoo will be completely fresh in three years. The following is "Mr. Fashion" titled "Hi!" I am Bartz ... Are you a jerk? (Hi, I m Carol Bartz ...) Are you a asshole: a year after taking over as Yahoo's chief executive, Bartz has shown herself to be an aggressive, vulgar, but very likeable company manager.  But Bartz still needs to prove she can revive Yahoo. January 13, 2009, Bartz officially served as Yahoo CEO. Bartz's first fire after taking office was to warn employees not to disclose company secrets. Otherwise, she would "kick the leak to the mother of Mars" (Drop-kick to fucking mars).  Since then, Bartz has been trying to restore Yahoo's dominance and deliberately subvert everyone's original impression of Yahoo. Yahoo is transforming from a search engine into a web portal after completing a deal with Microsoft. If Bartz's strategy is correct, then Yahoo will be able to attract new users and newcomers by simplifying the hard-working web search into personalized information. Bartz once doubted herself, but it turned out that she had made many of the right choices. Most of the CEOs who have talent like Bartz are not lucky enough to get a very high salary. The same is true for bar girls. You know, Bartz used to be a bar girl.  To this day, Bartz still knows the "unspoken rules" of pubs. My mother died at the age of 8 when I was a child. The father is a milling, he educates the child the way is the belt. At the age of 12, my brother and I moved to Wisconsin State grandparents ' farm to live with them. So at 8 to 12 years old, I was like my mother to clean the room and cook.  There is nothing to do but to make you do nothing. While living with my grandparents, one day my brother and I slipped into a machine warehouse on the farm. Suddenly, we found a rattlesnake appearing in front of us. We didn't even think about it and ran to our grandmother instead of running to grandpa. The old lady came with a shovel and stabbed the snake in the head, and chopped the Rattlesnake's head completely. The snake was so big that Grandma said only one word, "you can't do it." "It's not that she wanted to give us some advice about life," she said.  She left after she killed the snake. I was a very good pub girl. I've never even been to a bar before I took the job. I didn't know there was a customer in the bar. I was hired by my boss to say, "Okay, put this on." "To put on that suit., in the next three days, I did nearly 50 hours of aerobics. Frankly speaking, I probably did 1000 sit-ups. When I could put on that dress, the problem ensued, because I didn't know the type of wine.  So when someone said to me, "Give me a glass of brandy, I don't even know what they're talking about." I thought the boss wouldn't let me do it anymore, but I started getting tips all the time. This kind of work does not require too much to please the customer, but can get a little tip.  I made a lot of money at that time. One night, I was wearing a pair of black nets and suspenders with a tray of wine to attract customers in the bar, something that I was so anxious to disappear in the air. Someone set off my little skirt, when I turned around to find that this gentleman unexpectedly is my high school principal. I can't remember his name now, I said, "Mr. XX".  And he replied, "Carol!" I started my career in the workplace from the Digital Equipment Company in Atlanta (Digital equipment), when I was a sales rep for the company. Then I got promoted in my colleagues.  So I was their colleague, but the day after I was promoted I became their boss. My first day of promotion was not progressing well. I'll tell you why. Do you know what the plug compatibility means? That day, a former colleague of mine, a sales rep from the company, came up to my office and said, "I'm not going to work for a boss with a socket compatible." "I said to him," Well, I'm not going anywhere. I've never been a boss before, and I just got promoted 5 minutes ago. "Oh, my God!" If this happens today, I'll beat his crap out. I mean, I'll just kick him out of the office and don't let the door hit his butt. "A year ago, when I was in Yahoo's next day, I hosted a corporate plenary meeting," he said. At that time, all the staff looked at me under the stage. When I answered an employee's question, someone raised his hand and asked, "Have you ever used a mobile device?" "So absurd a question that I am a 60-year-old man." I replied, "I put the walkie-talkie over there." I think I have enough strength to stand here and finish the meeting. "There was a huge problem inside Yahoo, and all types of internal documents would be leaked to the media." You know, our private conversation should not be known to the neighborhood. So I said to the company staff, the leakage of internal documents is not the right behavior. If I find the leak, I'll kick him to the damn Martian. You must agree with me. Besides this, do I have to say, "Oh, please don't do this ..." Do you think I can say that Yahoo employees will be able to keep in mind? Yes, this way is not going to work. I did say that because I was outraged. As we all know, I do everything cautiously. In fact, someone asked me, "When are you going to get rid of the swearing in conversation?" I replied, "Do I have to block my ears?" "Nopossible! [Page] I always hug with the staff, I am a very like contact person. Contact is an extremely important part of human behavior. I also like eye contact. I have always remembered President Clinton's economic summit in Little Rcok (Little Rock) in 1992. I was a new chief executive at the time. When I entered the room, I found it was a big shot that I'd seen in a financial magazine before. I was like, "God, can I just disappear here?" But then I said to myself in my heart, I know how to deal with these things. How to enter a person's heart? greatly appreciated. So I walked up to Bob Crandall, chief executive of Bob Krandol, and said, "I've always been your admirer." It's amazing to meet you. "I said the same thing in front of 3 to 4 people. All these people do the same thing-shake my hand and look at the other people in the room. The matter touched me very much. I thought: You can't do that.  So I have been using eyes to communicate and contact with people. When I'm recruiting people, the last question is, "I don't work with asshole." Are you one of those people? "Some people would say," good question. I want to work in this environment. " But there are those who will be overwhelmed. This person left me with only one impression, "I guess I'm a jerk." "I always fire people in the morning because I am energetic," he said. I mean, why do I have to sit there and think about one thing all day: "I'm going to fire Joey at 16:59?" "The workplace is a popular joke, do not have breakfast with Bartz, because this is not a safe thing." People who know me know that I never make breakfast.  If one day I get up and meet someone early, something is sure to happen. Are women better listeners than men? I'm not sure. I mean, I've never been a man, so I don't know anything about it. My husband never listens to me because his mother didn't make him listen. What can I do? Hit him? I want to say that I have been in love with him, but do you want him to correct his habits?  It's not necessary. Yahoo's future today, the number of global Web sites has reached 225 million. No one has time to wander across the Internet. Tomorrow's Yahoo, will really do fine cut. I am not referring to the structure of Yahoo. We will show users what they are interested in. For example, if you are a sports fan but are not interested in tennis, then we will not provide you with tennis content. I call this the "unification of the Internet" (Internet of one).  Yahoo has more than 15 years of history, we are the Internet. This means that we have been very successful. Our users have reached 600 million, but we can do more. This is why I came to Yahoo. Steve Jobs returns to Apple's helmBefore India, the company had been badly hit. I didn't compare me to Steve. Think about the name of the computer before the Macintosh. It was Apple II, because it triggered the PC revolution. Everyone is thinking about the great changes the ipod has brought to Apple.  But after Steve Jobs returned to Apple, it took him a long time to launch the ipod, which made Apple truly a renaissance. My job is not to persuade people. My job is to join hands with this team. After three years, Yahoo will be completely fresh.
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