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Carly Fiorina as a boss: The disappointing truth
Fortune ^ | August 14, 2015 | Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

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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1 posted on 08/15/2015 7:54:21 AM PDT by conservative98
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To: conservative98

no thank you, Fortune is a liberal magazine which I thought was own by Gannett at one time.


2 posted on 08/15/2015 8:07:24 AM PDT by Perdogg (I'm on a no Carb diet- NO Christie Ayotte Romney or Bush - stay outta da Bushesh)
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To: conservative98
Meh. She was the CEO when the tech bubble hit.

There are enough reasons on the issues not to support Carly.

3 posted on 08/15/2015 8:08:59 AM PDT by FreeReign
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To: conservative98

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.


4 posted on 08/15/2015 8:11:07 AM PDT by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: conservative98

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.


5 posted on 08/15/2015 8:12:03 AM PDT by alloysteel (If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out? - Will Rogers.)
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To: conservative98

I know who she looks like!!

You put her hair up and she’s Lucy from Despicable Me 2


6 posted on 08/15/2015 8:17:57 AM PDT by Kenny
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To: alloysteel

Doc Brown was able to come back from the future with his two sons, Jules and Verne, so he must have invented something.


7 posted on 08/15/2015 8:19:23 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob (Isn't it funny that Socialists never want to share their own money?)
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To: alloysteel
Very belated Monday-morning quarterbacking.

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.

8 posted on 08/15/2015 8:19:42 AM PDT by conservative98
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From ConservativeTreehouse:

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

*****

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


9 posted on 08/15/2015 8:23:48 AM PDT by wtd
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To: conservative98

Bet she’d Absolutely destroy EPA or Department of Education. :×)


10 posted on 08/15/2015 8:25:53 AM PDT by hoosiermama (psalm 150;3 Praise him with the sound of the TRUMPet!h.)
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To: Perdogg

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.


11 posted on 08/15/2015 8:28:14 AM PDT by Future Snake Eater (CrossFit.com)
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To: alloysteel
last I heard, Hewlett-Packard is still doing just fine as a corporation.

You may not follow IT/financials then. HP has been shopping its PC division for a spinoff, lost the #1 spot to Lenovo, had a disastrous entry into tablets, and is trying to mimic IBM by emphasizing services and enterprise stuff. If they succeed, it will be because they undid all of Fiorina's work. The one thing they cannot undo is the loss of HP's reputation as a first class engineering company. Sixty years of reputation . . . Gone.
12 posted on 08/15/2015 8:29:13 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Future Snake Eater
Yeah, “Fortune” is a big-time lefty rag.

I'm old enough to remember when they were merely neo-con.

13 posted on 08/15/2015 8:30:59 AM PDT by Lazamataz (Dear Jeb Bush..... Trump upped his game. Up yours!.... Love, Laz.)
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To: conservative98

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.


14 posted on 08/15/2015 8:35:06 AM PDT by BRK
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To: Dr. Sivana
If they succeed, it will be because they undid all of Fiorina's work. The one thing they cannot undo is the loss of HP's reputation as a first class engineering company. Sixty years of reputation . . . Gone.

Exactly! Fiorina was a disaster for HP and some of us had to live through the consequences of her horrid decisions.

15 posted on 08/15/2015 8:40:04 AM PDT by CAluvdubya (<------- has now left CA for NV, where God and guns have not been outlawed! Cruzin' with Cruz!)
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To: wtd

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


16 posted on 08/15/2015 9:09:33 AM PDT by Bob434 ( person running,)
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To: conservative98

This guy is a school teacher who has no experience in business and writes for the Huffington Post.


17 posted on 08/15/2015 9:10:51 AM PDT by oldbrowser (The kangaroos have taken over the supreme court.)
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To: conservative98

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.


18 posted on 08/15/2015 9:20:58 AM PDT by The Unknown Republican
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To: conservative98; alloysteel

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.


19 posted on 08/15/2015 9:20:59 AM PDT by SuzyQue
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To: wtd

Bookmark.


20 posted on 08/15/2015 9:35:43 AM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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