But, you weren’t the first to figure that out. Several years earlier, Yahoo! senior executive Brad Garlinghouse wrote what came to be known as the “Peanut Butter Manifesto,” in which he said, “I’ve heard our strategy described as spreading peanut butter across the myriad opportunities that continue to evolve in the online world. The result: a thin layer of investment spread across everything we do and thus we focus on nothing in particular. I hate peanut butter. We all should.” Garlinghouse went on to say that Yahoo! lacked “a focused, cohesive vision,” “clarity of ownership and accountability,” and “decisiveness.” He attributed many of those problems to the company’s structure, saying, “We are separated into silos that far too frequently don’t talk to each other. And when we do talk, it isn’t to collaborate on a clearly focused strategy, but rather to argue and fight about ownership, strategies and tactics. We now operate in an organizational structure— admittedly created with the best of intentions—that has become overly bureaucratic. For far too many employees, there is another person with dramatically similar and overlapping responsibilities. This slows us down and burdens the company with unnecessary costs.” In the end, Garlinghouse concluded, “The current business unit structure must go away,” and that “the smoothly spread peanut butter needs to turn into a deliberately sculpted strategy—that is narrowly focused.”