Posted on 09/21/2015 7:47:44 AM PDT by libstripper
As a professor, hearing my name once, let alone twice, before 25 million TV viewers in an historic U.S. presidential debate is a surreal experience. “The head of the Yale business school, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, wrote a paper recently,” Donald Trump proclaimed in his attack on Carly Fiorina’s business record, “one of the worst tenures for a CEO that he has ever seen.” Immediately, the phones started ringing, text messages dinging, emails beeping—notes from thrilled old students, proud colleagues, teasing friends, pleased former teachers, curious clients, and my own immediate family in shared, flushed, utter shock. So used to being identified before large audiences as Jerry Seinfeld, I’ll admit that I was surprised to hear my name pronounced correctly. But it was a bit traumatic to hear my professional title, professor and senior associate dean, blurred a bit too closely with that of my widely admired boss, who is the actual dean of the Yale School of Management. Last week on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” Trump identified me as dean of the Yale Law School. When he makes me dean of the medical school, it will be very sad my mom is no longer around to share the joy. (Importantly, my perspective is my own, independent of any Yale affiliation.)
As Fiorina admits, I have been critical of her for over a decade—long before she announced her political aspirations. I have studied her business record, challenged her leadership abilities and have come to agree with the assessment that she was one of the worst technology CEOs in history. I stand by that evaluation.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld is senior associate dean of Leadership Studies and Lester Crown Professor of Practice Management at the Yale School of Management, as well as author of The Hero’s Farewell: What Happens When CEOs Retire (Oxford University Press) and co-author of Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters (Harvard Business School Press).
Take heed, GOP. Your opposition will use this to utterly destroy her in negative ads should you nominate her.
I actually heard the Red-eye Radio guys (Eric and Gary) say that Fiorina looked better prepared than Trump because she said something, even if it was wrong, whereas Donald offered no details. Seriously, they actually said that.
She was a bad HP CEO....took what Bill and Dave had made into a great company and utterly destroyed most of it. I was an HP employee for many years and cringed at what she did to the company,
A well-thought out piece that brings the facts to the surface.
You better read the article. Turns out he’s also a friend of the Bushes and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle. The information he presents is also quite compelling.
Right on!! This and much more. The DemonCraps’ guns are loaded and primed for Carly, just as they are for Jebbie.
Ah, Dr. Sonnenfeld, if only you and your colleagues had turned your fine eye for detail and your investigative sprit toward the Democratic candidate.
Could it be that uncovering background on the Democratic nominee would not advance the agenda of destroying the traditional Western way of life: Christianity, capitalism and democracy?
I probably wouldn’t spend too much time crowing about Jeffrey Sonnenfeld resume.
He has a big reputation for cronyism and his opinion isn’t trusted.
If you are a sponsor of Sonnenfeld’s CEO Summit, curiously you get winning articles written by him.
Here’s some examples:
1. In May 2014, Sonnenfeld told the Financial Times that IBM CEO Virginia Rometty was “the perfect person” to lead the company. IBM, from 2011 to 2014, was a leadership partner of his CEO Summit.
2.In February 2014, Sonnenfeld co-authored a New York Times op-ed about the unfair treatment of women CEOs — holding up Patriarch Partners CEO Lynn Tilton as a paradigm for successful female leaders. Patriarch was one of nine 2014 CEO Summit sponsors.
3. Sonnenfeld, in the same op-ed, came to the defense of PepsiCo CEO Indra Nooyi. The soft-drink and snacks maker was a CEO Summit sponsor from 2011 to 2014.
4. Sonnenfeld backed DuPont CEO Ellen Kullman and bashed activist investor Nelson Peltz, who is engaged in a much-publicized proxy battle with DuPont. Kullman received a Legend in Leadership award from Sonnenfeld in December 2013.
http://nypost.com/2015/04/15/being-friends-with-yale-prof-sonnenfeld-has-its-benefits/
You and your fellow HP employees will be like the Swiftboat Vets. Lining up five across to appear in ads against her.
LOL
The leftist will run negative ads regardless who the GOP nominee is.
Heck,
If during a GOP debate, the Heavens opened up. The Heavenly Chorus stated singing.
And Jesus Christ himself appeared proclaiming the Second Coming.
The Dems would run negative ads screaming Christ is unqualified to be our Lord and Savior because of his homophobia, racism and sexism.
LOL
The leftist will run negative ads regardless who the GOP nominee is.
Heck,
If during a GOP debate, the Heavens opened up. The Heavenly Chorus stated singing.
And Jesus Christ himself appeared proclaiming the Second Coming.
The Dems would run negative ads screaming Christ is unqualified to be our Lord and Savior because of his homophobia, racism and sexism.
And that he was a bad CEO because of his unlawful firing of Judas Iscariot.
Am I the only one who found her behavior at the debate to be obnoxious? She was rude, always butting in, then refusing to stop talking when asked multiple times. She acted as though it was ever so important that we all hear what she had to say at the expense of all the other candidates.
Good or bad, to a very large segement of voters she has the only qualification needed - Two "X" Chromosomes.
Anybody who can fail and walk away with a $40 million payoff must be smart on some level.
Has anyone mentioned that Fiorina apparently left a trail of unpaid, unhappy campaign staffers after her 2010 U.S. Senate bid against Boxer. She waited more than four years to give her campaign staff the almost half a million compensation they were promised. She finally paid just before launching her campaign for president.
IMHO the class warfare narrative in this country has progressed to a point where no CEO is electable. Let alone a bad one.
Sonnenfeld, a friend of the Clinton's, attacking Fiorina...humm, what could that possibly mean? - DeekSonnenfeld is a highly qualified individual appears to be a highly qualified individual who knows whereof he writes
You better read the article. Turns out he’s also a friend of the Bushes and many other politicians on both sides of the aisle. The information he presents is also quite compelling.Sonnenfeld is no Trumpster, either. That’s apparent. But he seems to have Fiorina pegged legitimately as not CEO material - arrogant, basically, unable to learn either from her own mistakes or from constructive criticism.
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