Posted on 09/16/2015 6:40:09 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Her weird jag on what Islamic civilization supposedly was is a huge caution sign. We know what that kind of camel hoof licking did for Barack Obama’s policy.
Being fired doesn’t mean she did a great hob
And both of them started their business in a garage, by making a signal generator as their first product.
How many businesses today start out in a garage, or a basement?
How many manufacture a physical product, and not just contract out to a chinese supplier?
Is that even allowed by financiers in today's business climate, manufacturing items domestically? Do investors even consider domestic manufacturing? Or is off to china and mexico right off the bat?
Game, Set, Match. Well played.
Carly Fiorina turned a prestigious technology company into another vendor of commodity hardware and printer cartridges.
She let go a lot of engineering talent, and the soul of the company with it. Now that HP is trying to re-establish itself in the enterprise space, they are missing those engineers and developers.
The increased cash flow came from commodity products like printer cartridges and consumer PCs. HP traded its position as Lexus of technology, bumping off either Dell or e-Machines for #1 vendor of the $399 special. She replaced Vectra sales with Pavilion sales.
At the time Fiorina took over HP, Apple was actually in worse shape financially. Steve Jobs was back and the iMac was just released, but no iPod, no iPhone, gimpy laptops based on hot PowerPC chips. At the time, HP was in better shape than Apple. She didn’t have to be Steve Jobs, but she decided that she wanted to be Hammermill or Georgia Pacific. Hardly a growth strategy.
The business PCs were crap. HPs laptops were always kind of weird, but the desktops, workstations and servers were solid. No more. Itanium was a bust as well, but that was in motion before she took over.
This article was obviously written by a hack who is parsing words to obscure the truth. Those of us in IT have no problem with great women in IT. Some of us even have a portrait of Ada Lovelace on our wall. Grace Hopper is venerated, even if we don’t LIKE the language she invented (COBOL).
For female CEOs, Marissa Mayer at Yahoo! is doing a good job with a much tougher company to steer than HP.
Don’t let Fiorina take her record off the table by people claiming that men don’t want girls in the IT sandbox.
Oh, and her attitude to the heroic Kim Davis is shameful.
You’d need to have something pretty special, and even then, you’d need to have some kind of plan for how to make it abroad.
HP went in as a Cadillac of technology and came out something between a Chevy and a Yugo.
As a former consumer of high end HP products, and an almost employee of Lucent... I wouldn’t trust her as far as I could spit, aiming for an inch beyond my big toe.
I had an HP laptop back in the day. You’re right, it sucked. The server division was solid fora while, but towards the end of her tenor they fell.
And all of the test equipment my fellow employees used to use to do their jobs, went bye bye. Equipment lines they’d used for decades.
What did we get? Cheap ass printers and expensive ink.
HP has A LOT of work ahead of them if they ever want my business again. I think it unlikely.
What bothers me about Carly is that she was chirping about Trump’s bankruptcy. Ok, fair enough. But what did Trump get out of it? A second chance after a failure. Carly, on the other hand, unquestionably failed as the CEO of HP. What did she get from her failure? She got to keep her stock and got a $21.1 Million severance package. While I have no problem with CEO pay, I do have a problem with failure and incompetence paying so handsomely.
Carly talks a very good game, but her job history does not match the rhetoric.
She is especially good when speaking about abortion. She must be truly passionate about it.
Her annoying and condescending manner is off-putting.
own children from the Board when they tried to stop her destructive moves and her massive payoff
A hateful creature . The HP heirs campaign against her in the Gop primary !
Well said.
She’s a vile screeching harpy
Her proper calling in the race is ripping up Hillary on a weekly basis. She did a good job against Barbara Boxer in CA (although she lost the race), and should simply fill this role for the next year or so.
So many people lost their jobs at HP to H1B visa holders. And on her watch.
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http://nypost.com/2005/02/10/fiorina-flops-h-p-chiefs-ousted-amid-compaq-deal-backlash/
Her missteps:
* May 2002: Compaq deal, which failed to improve margins and boost profit
* Aug. 2002: H-P cited discounting costs as profit missed targets
* Aug. 2003: Fiorina fired three sales execs, as shares plunged 13% on what she called “unacceptable” profits.
* Pushing PC unit – with weak gross margins – while falling behind in the high-margin servers and storage businesses
http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB110795431536149934
H-P’s Board Ousts Fiorina as CEO
Amid Languishing Stock, Computer Chief Resists Pressure to Delegate
EXCERPT
Three H-P directors — former H-P executive Richard Hackborn, George Keyworth, science adviser to President Reagan, and Ms. (Patricia) Dunn — met with Ms. Fiorina in early January and presented her with the four-page document outlining the board’s concerns, said a person familiar with the situation. The three directors read the contents of the document out to Ms. Fiorina, this person said. Ms. Fiorina “got the message pretty clearly,” said this person.
Perhaps we need a President with experience in bankruptcy since we are heading towards it.
WHAT A LOAD OF BUNK!
Here’s the simple truth about Carly... she should have never been given the CEO job, she was not capable or qualified for it, she had ZERO line experience and the board should have NEVER EVER offered her the position.... But they decided politics was more important and wanted a woman, so she got the job, and once she had the job, they couldn’t get rid of her no matter how bad she was because they were politically committed to it.
Carly was in over her head from the beginning, and her actions destroyed one of the greatest technologically innovative companies the world had ever seen... To this day HP has still not recovered from the fiasco that was the Carly years.
I am sure she did the best she could, but the reality was being fearless when you are utterly wrong just means you drive the bus into a wall.. but hey at least you were fearless enough to keep demanding you were right, even after the bus is a burned out charred carcass.
Anyone who thinks Carly was a great CEO, and did great work at HP is spinning a web of lies that the Clintons would be in awe of, nothing more.
“Fiorina is not going to be the President, so this is more of a thread to discuss her record at HP.”
Doesn’t matter . It should be shouted from the roof top that she loves islam every time her name comes up.
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