Definitely feminized, and I'm a woman. I'm pretty far down on the employment food chain, but I know that when you have some types of women running the show...it's hell.
Can you imagine Fiorina as a World War II battlefield general conversing with Patton?
"George you're too hard on the men. You don't care enough for their self-esteem and you've made no efforts to fully integrate gays and transvestites into your strategy and plans. As a result, you're not getting the full rich diversity of efforts and ideas that would make you successful. In my army division everyone's a winner. If one soldier gets a silver star they all get silver stars because we realize that success is not an individual achievement. And we don't judge heroism or achievement by hills taken, machine gun nests taken out, or number of enemy killed. The mess hall soldier who prepares a thoughtful and colorful centerpiece for the mess hall table is just as important as the soldier who single-handedly takes out a platoon of German infantry. The mess hall soldier's efforts are no less heroic just because he doesn't spill gallons of blood. He brings happiness and joy to others with a splash of color and whimsy, and that's heroic in a special way. I'm warning you, George, you're not going to win any battles until you learn to engage the 'inner children' of your men and make them all feel important and valued for their good intentions irrespective of results."
Much of this occurred before Carly was hired.
[Perhaps they should have moved the corporate HQ to Boise instead...]
It was all very touchy feely. They *really* cared. It was very feminized.
Decisions were less important than communication and collaboration.
Efforts and intentions were rewarded more than outcomes and results.
It was also at the same time very Machiavellian (full of back-stabbing and comments made about you after the meeting was over.)
... AND they perceived it was a great place to be an ambitious female, not male.
Every company I've ever worked for has been like that, especially my current employer. I should have never gotten out of the Army.