Marissa Mayer Quotes
Product management really is the fusion between technology, what engineers do - and the business side.
Carlson, Nicholas. Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo!. Twelve, 2015.
Jobs was referring to consumer products, but many feel that the principle holds with respect to politicians also.
SHS was operating information clearinghouses for the Federal Governments and applying cutting edge technology to heath information services to consumer. See Steve Jobs view of consumer research which is the most eloquent statement of this idea—{635780}.
Also published in What Do You Care What Other People Think, 1988. This was his last publication. He realized that NASA was under so much political and public relations pressure, that important science issues could not be faced squarely. So he wrote his own appendix to the report which was embarrassing to some of the administrators and contractors but was really appreciated by almost all of the scientists and engineers.
This is a very important quotation for government officials because the time to complete modern digital tech projects are impossible to determine beforehand. It is only when one is well into the project and in many cases almost finished, that the technologists can accurately predict the finish date. The 2013 rollout of the computer system for Obama Care signup was one of the great examples.
Many feel that the same is true in politics. The PR and image experts and the fund raisers are very helpful to political candidates, but between maintaining the message and image for the marketing staff and not offending major donors the finance people have obtained, there is very little that a politician can do that is innovative, both before and after his election as the image staff are in constant operation and in the last decades fund raising for the next election consumes a huge part of each day even after the candidate is elected.
Marissa Ann Mayer is an American businesswoman and investor. She is an information technology executive, and co-founder of Sunshine Contact. Mayer formerly served as the president and chief executive officer of Yahoo!, a position she held from July 2012. It was announced in January 2017 that she would step down from the company's board upon the sale of Yahoo!'s operating business to Verizon Communications for $4.8 billion. She would not join the newly combined company, now called Verizon Media (formerly Oath), and announced her resignation on June 13, 2017. She is a graduate of Stanford University and was a long-time executive, usability leader, and key spokeswoman for Google (employee #20).
