Here is just a part of what Craig Barrett, the CEO of Intel said praising Carly…and I think he knows a bit more than most here, seeing as he has been through several CEO’s of HP.
“Today, HP is a stronger company because of Carly Fiorina’s bold action. Certainly some of this credit goes to current management, who capitalized on the changes Carly made. But it was Carly who shook up the status quo. She engineered the merger. She restructured the combined company. She positioned HP to gain market share, and she deserves credit for standing up to the naysayers and critics to achieve the positive end result.”
The most virulent critics of Fiorina are those who were personally affected by the trimming of dead wood at HP.
Good to hear.
Can you even imagine if Carly Fiorina is on the VP slot...a real mud fight with Hillary and Fiorina doing all the damage. Hillary is no match for the honed speech delivery of Fiorina after years of practice in corporate boards and executive meetings where she had to prevail over tough male & female counterparts!
So iCarly decides to pack it all in and move to DC to be an RNC hack.
Just wait til she begins attacking Cruz or any other conservative candidate.
Selling Carly?
There’s a whole bunch of melted PC boards in a landfill somewhere that happened during her watch at Lucent. She got a big bonus by stuffing the channel there. Figured she could stick the product in boxcars and send it out on rail. When the quarter ended, they could return the product.
Whoops - Sticking plastic boards in a hot boxcar in the Texas heat tends to degrade the product a bit.
It all went away.
HP used to be on the cutting edge, and she put them full on into PCs and printers. Oh yeah, HP is the company of the future because of Carly.
Nope, I didn’t work there, for either one. I just did the competitive intelligence on them for a rival company.
In her defense, she did what she was paid to do - gut the company by taking on Compaq and spinning of Agilent.
All the former HP types ran Agilent into the turf. Shame.
“Today, HP is a stronger company because of Carly Fiorina’s bold action. Certainly some of this credit goes to current management, who capitalized on the changes Carly made. But it was Carly who shook up the status quo. She engineered the merger. She restructured the combined company. She positioned HP to gain market share, and she deserves credit for standing up to the naysayers and critics to achieve the positive end result.” - Craig Barrett, CEO of Intel
Craig Barrett nearly got employees at the headquarters in Santa Clara armed with pitchforks and torches in 2002.
All he did as CEO is buy worthless and overpriced startups.
It took Paul Ortellini 10 years to undo his damage.
Carly came across well also in a couple of interviews.