&gt; That being said, if you ARE going to judge her by contemporary CEO standards, the question is, would anyone else have done better?<p>The first mistake the Yahoo board made was to decide that product innovation would save them. In reality, they should&#x27;ve brought in an ex-consultant or ex-banker who could chop off pieces of the business and sell them to the highest bidder (essentially, what&#x27;s going to happen now).<p>The second mistake they made was that they decided the right person to execute on a product strategy was Marissa Mayer, when in reality that isn&#x27;t her strong suit.