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With Yahoo’s stock diving deeper into the lower range and its plans at introducing top execs to boost its management, Yahoo has decided to shave off a bit of costs here and there and thinning them out by hiring consultants from Bain. The news was leaked when Jerry Yang’s memo made it to the surface; stating his plans to have the company fit for a longer (more successful?) run.

A part off the memo that might be of more interest than the rest of it states:

i know that yahoo! can benefit greatly from more discipline among all departments and functions, across the company. longer term, getting fit now will enable us to be more successful moving forward.

So does staying fit point at cutting short on staff or does it have something to do with rigorous exercising to ensure the team can stretch itself for longer office hours? I wonder as to why could Yang desire having a consultant and did he even think about the impact it can have on the team? Hiring consultants isn’t a bad thing but for employees it might be a turn off  ( I for one would consider not being trusted, if I am asked to have a consultant telling me everything, that too after years of experience).

But it appears that the management at Yahoo thinks to the contrary and let’s be a bit more clear at this, to me Yang is under tremendous pressure; the deal with Google has all hands working to foil it, the shareholders are pained to see stocks going scuba diving and with Microsoft already lost. I bet it’s just an effort to thwart attention from the  core issue that runs within Yahoo; a massive amount off dissatisfaction, division onto groups and everything that is or can be associated with the disintegration of an organization. I guess what the management should do is plan a fun day, sit and have some genuine discussion outside the tight environment that Yahoo offers them at present.