Mayer: 'Being a Mother Makes Me a Better Executive'
For the first time, Marissa Mayer has shared some of her thoughts on the question that everyone asked when she took the job as Yahoo's CEO and announced she was pregnant on the same day.
For the first time, Marissa Mayer has shared some of her thoughts on the question that everyone asked when she took the job as Yahoo’s CEO and announced she was pregnant on the same day.
In a post on the blog associated with Sheryl Sandberg’s Lean In, Mayer acknowledged that “it wasn’t a foregone conclusion that I would or could make it work when I got that first phone call” from a headhunter.
“Could I really take the helm of Yahoo when I was 28 weeks pregnant? Even now, it sounds absolutely crazy,” she wrote.
But, she said, she’s able to enjoy her roles as mother and as CEO by carefully prioritizing.
“I’ve
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