Posted on 05/26/2010 4:48:02 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Under Carly Fiorina, Hewlett-Packard recognized that the computer industry needed consolidation and engineered the largest high-tech merger in history, combining HP and Compaq. There were plenty of skeptics to the bold actions taken by HP. But history has a way of straightening out the facts and the noted opinions of outside experts.
The merger of HP and Compaq was an unqualified success. It helped transform HP into the largest computer manufacturer in the world and provided a strong foundation for HP's current success under its very capable management team.
Carly Fiorina, the architect of the HP-Compaq merger and now a candidate for U.S. Senate, deserves great credit for her actions while CEO of HP. She understood the challenges of the marketplace, the dangers of the status quo, and the need for companies to move forward with bold actions to ensure their success.
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Nice revisionist history. Why are you pushing this RINO?
I’m just doing my posting duties, pissant. :-)
Ssshhhhh. We don’t need no stinkin facts.
Was that in an alternt universe?
Who are these people think they are fooling?
Jimmah Carter paved the way for Ronald Reagan too. </sarcasm>
We don’t need no stinkin facts
Sorry Charlie, none of that drivel is factual... based on personal observation and insider reports of 25+ yr HP retiree.
Carli was and is a disaster... at HP , Lucent and just about everything she has done other than to fatten her bank account at shareholder expense, THAT she was good at. Let her run for Mayor of Cupertino and at least show some Palin credentials before putting a globalist in the Senate from CA.
ymmv
Snicker.
Yes, because multiple large companies all loved the idea of promoting an incompetent fool up through the ranks and putting them in charge of the company.
Or maybe you just think all those companies were run by fools themselves, because we all know that corporate leaders don’t deserve to be in charge of things, or to be paid large salaries, because it’s not like the earned it like getting elected.
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