10 Reasons To Give Marissa Mayer A Break

Okay, so Yahoo! YHOO CEO Marissa Mayer overslept and was two hours late for a meeting. 

An important meeting.

Still, she is likely not the first CEO of a major corporation to oversleep and miss part of a meeting.

She is however, Marissa Mayer, and as The Washington Post noted, everything she does attracts attention – from how long she took off to have a baby to the clothes she wears to whether she calls herself a feminist.

The Wall Street Journal reported on the “nap," which apparently came after Mayer had been awake 20 hours and just before she was to meet with officials of Interpublic Group IPG and executives from major advertisers including Mondelez International MDLZ, MillerCoors and Chobani.

As The Wall Street Journal pointed out, the meeting’s importance was underscored by the fact Yahoo has seen a decline in its share of U.S display advertising. Mayer’s tardiness caused one top executive to say, “It is another instance where she demonstrated that she doesn’t understand the value of clients, ad revenue, or agencies.”

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Mayer, however, has not spent her entire tenure at Yahoo asleep at the switch. She has been very busy and while there may not be a good excuse for missing such an important meeting, here are 10 reasons to cut Mayer a break