culture-of-nice

How Microsoft will kill Yahoo's cloying culture

Nicholas Carlson · 02/04/08 06:00PM

Posts on Yahoo's corporate blog and its internal Backyard website seem to be written in a parallel, purple-tinted universe, one where everything is "Great! Just great!" The company's stock tumbles, pending layoffs, and hostile takeovers are nowhere to be seen. Why? Well, all that's just not nice. And nice is what has been killing Yahoo, an ex-Yahoo who's now at Microsoft tells Valleywag.