Carol Bartz vs. Conan O’Brien: Who Made a Better Exit?
Take a quick look at ousted Yahoo CEO, Carol Bartz’s very public, f-bomb laden exit interview with Fortune. Then watch Conan O’Brien’s exit monologue below on his final episode of the Tonight Show from last year. If you look really, really close, you might notice a slight difference in their approaches.
Bartz could be 100% accurate in her conclusion that Yahoo’s board of “doofuses” did indeed “f@*#” her over when they fired her. Like Bartz, Conan also had grounds for arguing that his former employer NBC gave him some unsolicited carnal treatment. Unlike Bartz, Conan had even easier access to a vast public medium (his own TV show) where he too could have blasted NBC for the perceived sleight. But Bartz decided to handle … [ Read More ]
