{"id":406,"date":"2012-08-09T11:13:21","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sanfordrose.wpengine.com\/brighton\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\/"},"modified":"2012-08-09T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2012-08-09T16:13:21","slug":"4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/cartergroup\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\/","title":{"rendered":"4 Leadership Lessons From Marissa Mayer’s Surprise Rise, Featuring Robin Toft of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae – San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"

By\u00a0Laurie Kulikowski<\/a><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (TheStreet<\/a>) — Marissa Mayer, the new CEO and president of\u00a0Yahoo!<\/strong>(YHOO<\/a>), is already being hailed as a pioneer: Mayer is the youngest female CEO of a Fortune 500 company.<\/p>\n

At just 37, nearly seven months pregnant and less than a month on the job, the pressure is on. Regardless of her age and sex, shareholders of the $19 billion dollar internet company\u00a0expect her to revive<\/a>\u00a0its struggling business model — and soon.<\/p>\n

Mayer comes into a job that didn’t end so well for predecessors. From Carol Bartz to the most recent Yahoo! CEO failure, Scott Thompson — who had to resign after a frustrated hedge fund investor uncovered lies on his resume — the Yahoo! CEO job has most recently been associated with failure, failure of a spectacular and very public nature.<\/p>\n

While Mayer clearly made a major contribution to\u00a0Google’s<\/strong>(GOOG<\/a>)\u00a0expansion and success as one of the search giant’s initial engineers, questions persist about whether she has the experience to run a public company.<\/p>\n

It is also clearly a risky bet from Yahoo!’s perspective.<\/p>\n

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Women need to network.<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Women are kind of lacking of the good old boy network or the ability to leverage their peers,” says Robin Toft, president and CEO of\u00a0Sanford Rose Associates – San Diego<\/a>, the La Jolla, Calif.-based division of the international executive search firm. Toft’s office focuses on placing female executives in C-suite offices.<\/p>\n

“What I realize by working with them is that female CEOs don’t know each other and don’t leverage each other for best practices or intelligence or support,” she says.<\/p>\n

Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11651006\/2\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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