Friday Four Tech Leadership in Review - Workology

Friday Four Tech Leadership in Review Tech Leadership Review Tech Leadership Review Silicon Valley continues to provide! News, views, and interesting case studies, that is. This weeks Friday Four is all about tech leadership: the good, the bad, and the silly. The Last Days Of Marissa Mayer? Analysts are speculating that were seeing the last days of Marissa Mayers tenure at Yahoo. This piece focuses less on the broad strokes and more on the CEOs missteps within the company. Yahoos who once treated Mayer like their messiah are now disillusioned, put off by micromanaging, distraction, and a lack of decisiveness. A repeated complaint is that talented engineers were left twisting in the wind while restructuring chugged along at a snails pace. High performing workers want to be creatively productive and if they dont get that opportunity at your organization they will move on which is what weve seen at Yahoo over the last few years. Inside Mark Zuckerbergs Bold Plan for the Future of Facebook Mark Zuckerberg no longer codes every day. Instead, hes redirected his efforts from micromanaging the code to planning for the companys future. This in depth piece looks at Zuckerbergs plans for growth and innovation, and how his expectations for himself have evolved with the company. I cant help but think that Zuckerbergs willingness to evolve personally and professionally and the expectation for same from his team has been a big part of Facebooks enduring success. What does good tech leadership look like? Well, that all depends on the companys position. Google Taps VMware Founder to Chase Amazon in the Cloud VMware founder and angel investor Diane Greene has moved from Googles board to its executive team. Shell lead Googles  cloud division. Google has also acquired her new startup, Bebop,  an enterprise app development platform. Greenes background at VMware, Bebop and as an investor has largely been on the enterprise side of things, along with her Stanford professor husband and collaborator, Mendel Rosenbaum. Im always interested high profile female executives, and Greene is definitely one to watch. Her biggest challenge as head of cloud computing at Google will be Amazon. The e-commerce titan has built a formidable Web services operation that continues to grow swiftly. Last quarter it reported revenue of $2.1 billion, a 78 percent annual growth. People in the industry say that Google has been more aggressive going after new clients, but that Amazon has a key network advantage and continues to dominate. Tinder? Im an addict, says hook-up apps co-creator and CEO Sean Rad Tinder is the most embarrassing startup. Not a month goes by that a Tinder rep or exec isnt being awkward on social media or in interviews. What is your deal, Tinder? This week its born again CEO and co-found Sean Rad enthusing about his dating app and confusing sapiosexual those who are attracted to intelligent people, regardless of their packaging with a particular sex act. Is this kind of stuff good for Tinders brand? Isnt anyone briefing these guys? I just dont get it.