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Carly Fiorina’s Revisionist History of HP and Herself
From the NY Times comes this news analysis prompted by the publication of former HP Chairwoman Carly Fiorina's memoir Tough Choices:
''Here's what the firing was not about,'' Carleton S. Fiorina told Damon Darlin of The New York Times this week. ''It was not about performance.'' ... So I come here this Saturday morning to offer a simple corrective. Carly, it was about performance. And if you didn't realize that then -- and can't admit it now -- you should never have been Hewlett-Packard's chief executive in the first place.
The article goes on to present a devastating critique of Fiorina's tenure at the top of HP.
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I don’t know a lot about business management. I do know geek culture, and I cringe at the thought of the CEO of a technology company doing presentations with glitter and music. Gahhhk. It’s not hard to believe that she rubbed all the worker bees the wrong way.
I also am inclined to believe that, no matter how skillful your marketing, you have to have a product that fills somebody’s needs. I’ve bought two HP/Compaq computers and I’m not going to buy another one. In my experience, they’re junk. Printers are another matter—I’ve heard it said that, at the end of the world, only cockroaches and HP printers will be left. HP would have been wise to have stayed focused on something they were doing reasonably well.