Carly Fiorina Positioned for Comeback

newsfactor ^ | October 9, 2006 | Brian Bergstein

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Dismal Compaq merger, missed earnings targets, blames being a woman executive for her firing.
She's taking credit for HP success after her departure - read the interview.

60 Minute's Leslie Stahl's interview here: The Troubles at HP

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[Red Badger]

Carly Fiorina? I was born in San Diego, Carly Fiorina..........

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[dakine]

"Fiorina will contend that she was unfairly scrutinized as a woman in business...."

"Besides her $21 million severance pay, she began 2006 with 850,000 HP shares -- a stake that size is worth $31 million now."


Can I be "unfairly scrutinized", too?

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[kawaii]

Didint Gil Amelio try that with Apple?

[printhead]

I'll never forgive her for or understand why the best part of the company, Test and Meaasurement had to go.

[SamuraiScot]

Fiorina will contend that she was unfairly scrutinized as a woman in business

After being promoted beyond her competence because she was a woman in business.

Typical narcissistic loser, she blames everyone else for the fact that she ran HP into the ground. Her only comeback will be to a teaching position far from the real world.

she revels in recent observations that she might deserve some credit for HP's performance since her departure. The stock is up 86 percent in that time.

Darlin', the stock is up 'cause you left.

[ikka]

Look at HP's margins compared with margins of the spin off companies that were sold, like Agilent.

[LiberalBassTurds]

She wrestles that stodgy Silicon Valley institution into the Internet age...

What a crock.

LBT
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[ClearCase_guy]

"It's a book about what's required of change agents," she told a women-in-business conference

Oh, run for your lives!! Nothing good can follow that!

[jtal]

Actually, Lew Platt (her predecessor at HP) did the Agilent spin-off IIRC.

[Obadiah]

I know little about Carly other than what I read, but I have a generally favorable impression of her. Therefore, it is especially disappointing that in her new book she plays the gender card and says that she was unfairly scrutinized because she was a woman.

Oh, puleeze. She made millions ans millions and held a lot of corporate power. Like many who went before her she discovered that Wall Street will back non-performers for only so long. Come on, Carly!

[Paloma_55]

A restless law school dropout becomes a master sales rep for Ma Bell, then rises higher in business than any other woman
Correction:

A restless law school dropout becomes a master sales rep for Ma Bell, Marries a VP at Ma Bell then rises higher in business than any other woman

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For one thing, she revels in recent observations that she might deserve some credit for HP's performance since her departure. The stock is up 86 percent in that time.

This has to be a classic. The company gains in value because they fired her, and Carly is taking credit for that? It's like, gee, see how well they've done since they fired me, that means I must have done something right (by being fired).

So, let's see, Carly runs Lucent into the ground, runs H-P into the ground, what loser of a corporate board out there is going to bring her on as CEO and make her a three-time loser? Given the number of idiots out there in the upper management of American companies, I wouldn't be surprised if someone doesn't step up and swallow the Kool Aide.

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Comments like "stodgy" Silicon Valley and "change agent" are entirely inappropriate. Perhaps that is indicative of the problem.

Hang on while I put on my rose-colored glasses.

[Paloma_55]

I saw the interview and it was pathetic.... It was an attempt to suggest that Carly and her successor, Patti Dunn, were victims of a white male conspiracy.

She, and Dunn, were incompetent and brought their failure upon themselves.

I almost puked when she complained about being fired on the spot as if she had no idea why not. I would bet that the month before, she told the board "I am going to find out who is leaking if I have to fire every one of you SOB's!!!"

She was a pathetic loser who thought it was all about her.

[svcw]

Favorable feeling! She destroyed HP. She is beyond incompetent. As far as being scrutinized for being a woman, she would have never been hired if she weren't a woman.

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In the interview, Stahl let her off easy on the missed earnings target. Most CEOs are accountable for the bottom-line, not knowing the margin of missed targets is inexecusable.