Posted on 08/15/2015 7:54:21 AM PDT by conservative98
She’s running for President on her track record as CEO of HP, but if that’s the case, Fiorina might want to rethink her strategy.
Fresh from strong debate quips, Carly Fiorina has improbably raced from 14th to fifth place in the New Hampshire Republican primary polls and now enjoys a 70% favorability rating in Iowa, ahead of such career politicians as Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich, Rand Paul, Chris Christie, Rick Perry, George Pataki, and Lindsay Graham.
It is time to take her candidacy seriously and examine her leadership record. Having never held elected office, she has staked her reputation on her business career.
Fiorina is eager to be seen as the answer to Democratic slogans of a Republican war on women. She’s often been erroneously referred to as the first woman to lead a Fortune 500 firm, Hewlett-Packard HPQ 0.91% . That title actually belongs to The Washington Post Company’s Katharine Graham. Then there are the many other trailblazing women leaders preceding Fiorina, including Beechcraft’s Olive Ann Beech, Mattel’s Ruth Handler, Beatrice Food’s Loida Nicolas-Lewis, the Body Shop’s Anita Roddick, Martha Stewart, and Oprah Winfrey.
Still, with a scant 5% of Fortune 500 firms employing women CEOs, her leadership of a huge global enterprise in the macho field of IT is impressive. But how did she do?
The answer in short is: Pretty badly.
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no thank you, Fortune is a liberal magazine which I thought was own by Gannett at one time.
There are enough reasons on the issues not to support Carly.
As CEO she had a Board of Directors that supported her every step of the way. Until it was clear someone had to take the fall. As is always the case, the business press is as full of BS as any other media outlet.
Very belated Monday-morning quarterbacking. The errors made by Ms. Fiorina are not more egregious or emotion-based than those of countless males in a similar corporate setting, and last I heard, Hewlett-Packard is still doing just fine as a corporation. Could she have done better on some of the pivot points? Hindsight is truly a great analytical tool, but unavailable to those of us who do not have a time machine to jump weeks or months into the future and return.
Far as I know, Doc Brown never DID invent the Flux Capacitor, or even the nuclear power conversion unit to generate 1.21 jigawatts of power. And we don’t have flying cars, either.
I know who she looks like!!
You put her hair up and she’s Lucy from Despicable Me 2
Doc Brown was able to come back from the future with his two sons, Jules and Verne, so he must have invented something.
In 1999, a dysfunctional HP board committee, filled with its own poisoned politics, hired her with no CEO experience, nor interviews with the full board. Fired in 2005, after six years in office, several leading publications titled her one of the worst technology CEOs of all time. In fact, the stock popped 10% on the news of her firing and closed the day up 7%.
Arianna Packard, the granddaughter of HP’s founder, commented when discouraging voters from supporting Fiorina in her 2010 senatorial run, “I know a little bit about Carly Fiorina, having watched her almost destroy the company my grandfather founded.”
and last I heard, Hewlett-Packard is still doing just fine as a corporation.
Under Meg Whitman’s brilliant leadership, HP’s character and performance have recovered, but we have not seen Fiorina’s parallel resilience just yet.
Carly Fiorina on Immigration: Pass the DREAM Act. For other undocumented immigrants, a direct path to citizenship is unfair. While running for the U.S. Senate in California in 2010, Fiorina said she supports the DREAM Act, which would give legal status to people who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
Carly Fiorina on Climate change: It is real and manmade. But government has limited ability to address it. Speaking in New Hampshire in February, Fiorina said there is scientific consensus that climate change is real and caused by humans.
Carly Fiorina on Education: Supports Common Core – Set national standards but give local districts maximum control. No Child Left Behind was positive. In a position paper while running for the U.S. Senate in California, Fiorina
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Also worth mentioning:
In her interview with Katie Couric from May, Carly Fiorina went on and on about how if you don’t have a room full of “diversity” when making an important decision, you will not get the decision right. (ff 9:43 - 13:00)
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GOP Hopeful Slams Hillary For Clinton Foundation, But Left One Important Thing Out
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And last but not least...regarding the Fiorina's quote "Islamic Civilization was “Greatest in the World”:
"I’ll end by telling a story.There was once a civilization that was the greatest in the world.
It was able to create a continental super-state that stretched from ocean to ocean, and from northern climes to tropics and deserts. Within its dominion lived hundreds of millions of people, of different creeds and ethnic origins.
One of its languages became the universal language of much of the world, the bridge between the peoples of a hundred lands. Its armies were made up of people of many nationalities, and its military protection allowed a degree of peace and prosperity that had never been known. The reach of this civilization’s commerce extended from Latin America to China, and everywhere in between.
And this civilization was driven more than anything, by invention. Its architects designed buildings that defied gravity. Its mathematicians created the algebra and algorithms that would enable the building of computers, and the creation of encryption. Its doctors examined the human body, and found new cures for disease. Its astronomers looked into the heavens, named the stars, and paved the way for space travel and exploration.
Its writers created thousands of stories. Stories of courage, romance and magic. Its poets wrote of love, when others before them were too steeped in fear to think of such things.
When other nations were afraid of ideas, this civilization thrived on them, and kept them alive. When censors threatened to wipe out knowledge from past civilizations, this civilization kept the knowledge alive, and passed it on to others.
While modern Western civilization shares many of these traits, the civilization I’m talking about was the Islamic world from the year 800 to 1600, which included the Ottoman Empire and the courts of Baghdad, Damascus and Cairo, and enlightened rulers like Suleiman the Magnificent.
Although we are often unaware of our indebtedness to this other civilization, its gifts are very much a part of our heritage. The technology industry would not exist without the contributions of Arab mathematicians. Sufi poet-philosophers like Rumi challenged our notions of self and truth. Leaders like Suleiman contributed to our notions of tolerance and civic leadership.
And perhaps we can learn a lesson from his example: It was leadership based on meritocracy, not inheritance. It was leadership that harnessed the full capabilities of a very diverse population — that included Christianity, Islamic, and Jewish traditions.
This kind of enlightened leadership — leadership that nurtured culture, sustainability, diversity and courage — led to 800 years of invention and prosperity.
In dark and serious times like this, we must affirm our commitment to building societies and institutions that aspire to this kind of greatness. More than ever, we must focus on the importance of leadership — bold acts of leadership and decidedly personal acts of leadership.
With that, I’d like to open up the conversation and see what we, collectively, believe about the role of leadership."
There is so much wrong in that quote. Fiorina majored in medieval history at Stanford at time (one assumes) during which Edward Said’s discredited, anti-Western ideology on colonialism and “Orientalism” flowed within MESA Nostra intellectual/university circles. With 14 years having passed since that speech, Fiorina should revisit the topic and clarify.
When one hears the phrase "golden age of Islam", the idiom, "all that glitters is not gold" immediately pops up.
Bill Warner illustrates in 70 seconds Islam's destruction of Classical Civilization over 12 hundred years here, ff 12:14 and reveals there were three, not one, but THREE Dark Ages brought on by Islam, one in Europe, one in Turkey (Byzantine) and North Africa. (ff 24:27).
Then fast forward once more to 31:50 where Mr. Warner specifically addresses the so called 'golden age' of al Andalus (Spain) and asks, was it a "multicultural golden age" or a 'reign of terror'? His brilliant illustration answers that question leaving no doubt.
Bet she’d Absolutely destroy EPA or Department of Education. :×)
Yeah, “Fortune” is a big-time lefty rag. Their facts may be on-point (if they share ALL of the facts), but their analysis will always, always trash conservatives.
I'm old enough to remember when they were merely neo-con.
The media cracks me up with thier righteous explanations of what should be looked into and when. We still know next to nothing of Barack H. Obama. The man with no accomplishments except two self serving autobiographies of a 40-something with no accomplishments.
If I were running for president, I would be ready for them and fry thier asses good with a tirade of “I’ll answer that as soon as soon as you ask Barck Obama about -fill in the blank-
They have given up the right to investigate anybodies background and I would make sure they knew it.
Oh On the topic above..Carly is OK for me..not on my top list but I would not cry if she won the nomination. I would support and vote for her.
Exactly! Fiorina was a disaster for HP and some of us had to live through the consequences of her horrid decisions.
thanks for posting that0- was unsure hwere she stood on those issues- she’s definitely no vote for me then-
I am going to write an email- perhaps even send a snail mail to her office (and other candidate’s offices) asking her how in the world man can possibly be responsible for global climate change when we have only contributed an amount of CO2 that = only 0.00022% of the atmosphere- There is no way this side of hell that 0.00022% of our atmosphere is causing ANYTHING- it’s SCIENTIFICALLY impossible! I do NOT expect to get an answer from any of these liars- they want climate regulations and will stop at nothing, nor let any FACTS get in their way
This guy is a school teacher who has no experience in business and writes for the Huffington Post.
My old boss worked at HP during Carly’s reign. He is an extremely conservative man politically and socially and has categorically stated that he would never vote for Fiorina due to her lack of true leadership skill. She does give a good speech and I give her credit for embracing Christianity since her days at HP, but that does not make her a good leader.
Yes, I followed HP pretty closely when she was CEO, and her record was pretty dismal. It’s not Monday-morning quarterbacking; just a statement of what happened.
As I’ve said on other threads, we need to vet our candidates very carefully. If they can’t stand up to our questioning, they sure as heck won’t stand up to the dims or the dinosaur media.
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