Strikingly similar are the consequences of the mismatch between the CEO and his business at the Gap and Yahoo.
Pressler apparently didn’t understand fashion well enough to make crucial retailing decisions at the Gap — and apparently also failed to appreciate this consequences of this gap and appoint a fashion czar to fill that vacuum:
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A few weeks ago, Om Malik did a highly unscientific graphic comparison of second life and real life. Well, real life sucks, and it is in the after life where harems of virgins await us. (…await the virtuous men. Who knows what women want?) So for round two, we do a […]

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As casual planning startup Renkoo revs up in closed Beeta (pronounced Bee-tah), UK based Renzoo launched this week a beta of its unified messaging platform. Apparently Ren-ness was in the air the latter half of 2004: both domains were registered a month apart, Renzoo.com on Aug 27, 2004 and Renkoo.com on Oct 28, […]

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There’s an amusing public spat over at TechCrunch in a comment thread between Trent Kang, founder of CreamAid, and Michael Arrington that highlights the hypocrisy of the blogosphere elite when they worry out loud about the pernicious effects of the emerging pay for blogging models. Arrington likens such pay to payola in the music […]

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