This has been coming for a while. Jerry Yang had close to a year to put Yahoo back on the right path. He never seemed to get started. His hundred days came and went, and nothing happened. Losing products weren’t cut. Nothing was rationalized. Hard decisions weren’t made. Now, Yahoo will pay for his lack of urgency. You want to know why it happened, then read The Peanut Butter Jar is Empty by Rich Skrenta.