Cartoon by Mick Stevens. For more from this week’s issue: http://nyr.kr/T30jX1

As your C.E.O. steps down, a few misunderstandings must be corrected: http://nyr.kr/OMnRMa

When I was embedded at Google for a good part of more than two years reporting a book, I sat in quite a few meetings conducted by Marissa Mayer, the prominent executive who’s just announced that she’s leaving to become the C.E.O. of Yahoo. I was struck that she possessed a quality that’s been in short supply at Yahoo in recent years: clarity.

Ken Auletta on Marissa Mayer’s move to Yahoo, and why Silicon Valley still needs more female C.E.O.s: http://nyr.kr/MBA44T