2011黯然離場的高管

風雨飄搖，雅虎女掌門遭遇電話解職

????不管雅虎（Yahoo）前任首席執行官卡羅爾?巴茨在任期間表現如何，她的離職確實具有戲劇性。巴茨聲稱，雅虎董事長羅伊?博斯托克為回避正面沖突，在電話中向她宣讀了律師聲明——就算實在找不到人有膽量當面把壞消息告訴巴茨，這種做法還是上不了臺面。巴茨告訴《財富》雜志，雅虎的人“耍了她”。

????顯然巴茨的雅虎時代已經謝幕，她的員工支持率已從2009年1月初上任時的90%跌到了電話解雇們之前的24%。

????很長一段時間以來，雅虎一直在努力尋求出路，谷歌（Google）等搜索引擎競爭對手已經在多領域輕松超越雅虎。近期，雅虎宣稱其部分持股的阿里巴巴集團（Alibaba）擅自轉移前途無限的在線支付平臺支付寶股權，雙方鬧得沸沸揚揚，雅虎也深受打擊。銀湖投資（Silver Lake）等私募股權公司，甚至微軟（Microsoft）有意收購的傳言也不能給人信心，讓人相信雅虎能憑借自身力量走出當前困境。

????不過，這次不太體面的離職并不會扼殺巴茨的職業生涯，因為如今已經沒人有能力駕馭雅虎這艘超級巨輪。

Phoning it in

????Think what you'd like about her time at Yahoo, but former CEO Carol Bartz certainly left the company with a bang. Board chairman Roy Bostock skirted an in-person confrontation and, Bartz says, read her a lawyer's statement over the phone -- a pretty low move, even though you'd be hard-pressed to find someone with the guts to give Bartz bad news to her face. Bartz told Fortune that the people at Yahoo "f*cked her over."

????It was clear that Bartz's sun had set at Yahoo, as employee approval ratings dropped from 90% right after she was hired in January 2009 down to 24% before Bostock gave her that fateful ring.

????The company has been struggling to find its way for quite some time, as search competitors like Google and others have breezed past it on several fronts. And Yahoo recently suffered from an ugly public argument over the spin-off of promising Chinese online payment platform Alipay from Alibaba, a company that Yahoo partially owns. Rumors of an acquisition from private equity firms like Silver Lake or even Microsoft don't lend confidence that Yahoo can get out of this pickle on its own.

????Still, this less than savory exit will not be a career-killer for Bartz as it's clear that the company had become a rather large ship to steer.