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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

 <\/p>\n

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":"

By\u00a0Laurie Kulikowski NEW YORK (TheStreet) — Marissa Mayer, the new CEO and president of\u00a0Yahoo!(YHOO), is already being hailed as a pioneer: Mayer is the youngest female CEO of a Fortune 500 company. 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\u00a0its struggling business model — and soon. 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. While Mayer clearly made a major contribution to\u00a0Google’s(GOOG)\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. It is also clearly a risky bet from Yahoo!’s perspective.   Women need to network. “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, the La Jolla, Calif.-based division of the international executive search firm. Toft’s office focuses on placing female executives in C-suite offices. “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. Read more:\u00a0http:\/\/www.thestreet.com\/story\/11651006\/2\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,29,30,31,32,33,34,35],"class_list":["post-406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sra-news","tag-female-ceo","tag-google-ceo","tag-retained-executive-search","tag-retained-search","tag-robin-toft","tag-san-diego-executive-recruiter","tag-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego","tag-yahoo-ceo"],"yoast_head":"\n4 Leadership Lessons From Marissa Mayer's Surprise Rise, Featuring Robin Toft of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae - San Diego<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"4 Leadership Lessons From Marissa Mayer's Surprise Rise, Featuring Robin Toft of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae - San Diego\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sanfordrose.com\/shapirosearch\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Darren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Darren\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/3a19b159d1fd2376d2dab6bea24e5a7d\"},\"headline\":\"4 Leadership Lessons From Marissa Mayer’s Surprise Rise, Featuring Robin Toft of Sanford Rose Associates\u00ae – San Diego\",\"datePublished\":\"2012-08-09T16:13:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/sanfordrose.com\\\/shapirosearch\\\/4-leadership-lessons-from-marissa-mayers-surprise-rise-featuring-robin-toft-of-sanford-rose-associates-san-diego\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":294,\"commentCount\":0,\"keywords\":[\"female CEO\",\"Google CEO\",\"retained executive search\",\"retained search\",\"Robin Toft\",\"San Diego executive recruiter\",\"Sanford Rose Associates - 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