"2004 marked the last full year of Carly's tenure. By this point, HP stock had lost half of its value. Dell began to eat away at HP's highly profitable printer business (Elgin, 2005). The business press, which had once lauded Fiorina, began to complain about her lack of operational skills and failure to chart a coherent direction for the company. Employee morale continued to drop. The CEO and her board sparred over appointments to head divisions of the company, plans for further reorganization, and suggestions that she hire a chief operating officer. Issues came to a head in the third quarter when the company badly undershot earnings projections and it looked like Fiorina was sacrificing others to cover for her mistakes. (She fired three executives in a 5 a.m. phone call for failing to meet the numbers.) The board removed Carly in February 2005, providing her with nearly $28 million in severance pay (Loomis & Ryan, 2005). Employees celebrated her departure. At HP's Boise facility, employees distributed Hostess Ding Dongs to announce, 'The witch is dead' (Malone, 2007, p.386)." From the "The rise and fall of Carly Fiorina: an ethical case study" by Craig Johnson
Interesting....Ding Dongs huh? LOLOLOLOL....how mature.....
She wasn’t popular was she? Isn’t heading HP is a position of rarified accomplishment? HP CEO is a position few out there could obtain, much less even be considered for. Her purchase of Compac, despite the turmoil it created, set the stage for HP’s later resurgance. All the while the US was suffering an economic downturn due to 9/11/2001......
The Board of Directors that she had so much trouble with were asked to resign within a year of Carly’s departure....Don’t you wish you could command a $28M severance package? I do.
Failure is often the price of innovation. People rebel when they are led out of their comfort zones. I can’t judge, but it seems that HP, in a maturing marketplace, was shaken out of it’s complacent ways....and went on to regain its position in the computer world......because, or in spite of Fiorina....your/or other’s choice of opinion.....
Back on point......
Carly is running for the office of US Senator......not President/CEO. Neither Carly, nor Chuck, nor Tom have any Federal Legislative experience. Our choice boils down to an educated guess as who will be best......
We are looking for a person that has values, principals, morals, and an overall thought process similiar to our own. Executive experience is not required, a failureless life is not required...Our candidate, whomsoever is nominated, must be able to win in the General Election, and that is the money line......
Who ever wins the primary election will be running against Barbara Boxer, a woman of spectacular non accomplishment, both in the private and the public areas of life. Though considered about as smart as a Box of Rocks, Barbara is a good campaigner, fights dirty, and has a record of winning against both Moderate and Conservative Republicans. Not quite the push-over some here think she is.......
The Californian Republican voters will choose their candidate for the November General Election this June....DeVore, Campbell, or Fiorina......and no matter who is advanced to the General Election, the winner can count on my support to “Beat Babs.”
While I suspect that Fiorina has McCain-like tendencies, I currently think that she is best suited to defeat Boxer in the California General Election, and that is the whole point.......
Make Babs GONE......