Was it just another firing? Failure of top female executive raises gender issue

Houston Chronicle ^ | Feb. 12, 2005 | L.M. SIXEL

[ken21]

if she ran a submarine aground, it'd be more obvious.

she leaves with a $21,000,000 parachute.

[Dog Gone]

The fact is that she was awful. Her firing wouldn't even be a story if she was a he. The record speaks for itself.

Women will never be truly equal in this country until we quit treating every success or failure as something special.

[Richard Kimball]

Oh, good grief. She ran Lucent into the ground, then did the same thing at HP.

[umgud]

She's probably never even been trained to leave the toilet seat up.

[formercalifornian]

Equality means equal in mediocrity? That's a new one.

[Tarpaulin]

Acquire Compaq, screw the board. Go against the wishes of the founder's family, the board. Flip the bird at the board (figuratively.)

Ba-da-bing... you're out!

Gender is irrelevant.

[ken21]

you're correct, senor.

[ken21]

there was the h-p scion that warned against her take over of compaq.

[ken21]

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[ken21]

right, that was my first thought too, "cheated" because the guys get to be incompetent!

[ken21]

i don't know, sorry.

[ken21]

amazing, isn't it?

i enjoyed the nyt story last week where a male journalist called her a "strategic thinker"!

[econ_grad]

Was it her idea of acquiring Suse? Not a bad move.

[Tarpaulin]

I'm looking for another HP comeback after this purge.

[ken21]

hope so.

some h-p people i've known seem energized. they said they ignored her.

[ken in texas]

Novell acquired Suse, not H-P.

[FastCoyote]

What are the people in this article talking about. Carly stunk up the place with her acquisition of Compaq. Every Tech with a highschool diploma and an A+ Certificate could watch the commodization of the PC. So Carly stuck HP's eggs in the PC wars and let the printer business wither. And cause she was cute she got away with it, till the stock took the big tank.Buh bye Carly.

[yankeedame]

...When Carly Fiorina was fired at Hewlett-Packard Co. last week, it wasn't just another CEO who couldn't make the numbers.

She was fashionable, charismatic and a tough executive whose aggressive self-promotion put her on par with other first-name-only notables as Martha and Hillary.

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Oh, ye cats and little kittens!! Would they ever described a male CEO - told to hit the bricks or not -- in this way?

"...he was fashionable, charismatic and a tough executive whose aggressive self-promotion put him on par with other first-name-only notables as Bill and Donald..."

You bet your sweet life they wouldn't. But for a high-powered, mover-and-shaker business femme it's A-OK. What's with that?

And when one of these dames gets the ax it seems to be an unspoken a given that it wasn't because she flop, but because "sinister forces" [a.k.a. jealous straight white males] were at work.

[Alia]

http://www.alwayson-network.com/comments.php?id=8472_0_3_1_C

"Ms. Fiorina, Please Resign."

Back in January of 2002, Red Herring editors called on Carly Fiorina to resign. Here is a replay of our then infamous letter. Also reprinted below is then-editor Jason Pontin's reflections on the "open letter" that appeared in his column in the same issue.

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I found this stuff while in another thread. You might want to take a look:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1330619/posts (Post #8) **************** My.... look what I ran across....

"All of the live webcasts above will be archived and available on demand at AlwaysOn in short order as well.

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Ya think the DAVOS tape is still archived??

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