what execs actually do?

It makes sense for founders to get moved on, it's natural - like putting your oldies in a returement home when they get too frail and slow to brush their own teeth.

I work in a company that's relatively young and we are currently suffering from a lot of "old timers" who are still here simply because they have elevated themselves to a high and generally unsackable rank over the years. they are dead weight and to be frank can't always do their jobs properly.

what is needed in any company that has expanded rapidly is to clear this dead weight and streamline management and resposibility chains to maximise the efficiency of the business overall.

Who would you rather have: a guy who is CEO because he started the company or a guy who has CEO'd 10 other companies in the last 20 years and has made billions for his shareholders ?

"Together, Navic and Microsoft will deliver addressable television advertising solutions to help our partners better manage media spend by increasing advertiser reach and ROI, and maximising publisher yield on television advertising."

If you can read that out loud without laughing (or crying), you may have a future in marketing.

And here people accuse Register hacks of murdering the language. 'leccy and mobe are nothing when compared with managed media spend that leverages ROI multipliers on advertiser reach vs. publisher yield.

Apparently they... 'take the money and run'

it's the sparkly one with a treble clef on the lapel

...in the IT world, when shares fall, execs walk.

In Barclays, the share price has fallen by half in the last year, but no tales of mass walk outs from heavy shareholders there.

Does this show how seriously people in the IT world take their 'investments' in a company compared to other markets?

Steven R

Part of this is course the Silicon Valley culture, where changing employers every 2-3 years is often considered a good thing.

However, Yang has no strategy to get Yahoo! competitive on its own, and their turnover was already bad. So I expect a lot of people are looking at the doorway while Yang's to do list reads like:

1. Buy tickets on the Titanic

2. Deck chairs--don't forget them!

3. Have interior decorator look into deck chair placement

Let us not forget Micro$loths last venture into the world of television with MSNBC that slowly disintergrated into a cloud of nothingness. I expect that the poor, suffering US TV viewers will soon be subjected to adverts extoling the virtues of Micro$loth's Live search. It is about the only way they will get people to use it.