Posted on 04/07/2010 10:43:50 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
What a clueless .. No, make that, compromised organization.
While she is perhaps best known as the former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP), what is not as well known is Carly worked her way through undergraduate and graduate school. A self-made woman, she started her business career as a secretary and went on to become the first, and to date, the only woman to lead a Fortune 20 company.
Carly served as the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Hewlett-Packard Company (HP) from 1999 to 2005, leading the reinvention of the legendary company, successfully steering it through the dot-com bust and the worst technology recession in 25 years. During her tenure, HP’s revenues doubled, from $44 billion to $88 billion, with improved profitability in every product category. Today, HP is the largest technology company in the world.
She proved her leadership in tough times. Her pursuit of the controversial merger with Compaq Computer is now acknowledged to be the most successful merger in high-tech history and positioned HP to become the first $100 billion information technology company, creating market leadership positions for the company in every one of its product lines.
Carly’s uncommon record of hard work and success includes more than 20 years at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, where she led the largest-of-its-time IPO of Lucent and became President of its largest business.
Today, Carly is one of the most recognized business leaders in the world and an opinion leader who chairs the Board of the Technology Policy Institute, served on the Board of Business Executives for National Security, is a Global Envoy for Lance Armstrong’s LIVESTRONG organization and serves as vice chair of the Initiative for Global Development. She was also a member of the Defense Business Board, and recently served on the Advisory Group for Transformational Diplomacy for the Department of State.
As the Chairman of the Fiorina Foundation, chair of The One Woman Initiative - A Fund for Women’s Empowerment and a founding partner with The African Leadership Academy, Carly believes in giving back. She is also a board member of Freedom House, Vital Voices, the National Symphony Orchestra and Ford’s Theatre and serves as a trustee for MIT.
She helped put herself through school, doing the books at a local hair salon while she earned her undergraduate degree from Stanford and taught undergraduates in order to pay for an MBA from the University of Maryland. Her Masters of Science in Business from MIT was the result of years of hard work at AT&T - they thought enough about her promising future to send her there.
Carly - just another Bush-McCain-Graham-Tom Cobrun style RINO.
Fiorina has an admirable resume of success and getting a job done in difficult circumstances. She has a strong record of making difficult decisions.
LAT: McCain stumps for Fiorina
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mccain-fiorina7-2010apr07,0,4666984.story
Carly’s success at HP was questionable at best, as many of her decisions actually cost the company money after she left. As far a Lucent, it seems its success never panned out.
I don’t know whether or not Carly Fiorina qualifies as a RINO (she’s moderate-to-conservative on economic issues, pro-life and pro-marriage), but I do know that the only other candidate with a chance to win the GOP nomination, Tom Campbell, is unequivocably a RINO. Tom Campbell is in favor of same-sex marriage and partial-birth abortion, has a long record of anti-Zionist and pro-Islamist views and actions, and is, at best, a moderate on economic issues.
Tom Coburn???
As much as I dislike Fiorina her opponent displayed such low class on Hannity that he is out of consideration in my view.
As much as I dislike Fiorina her opponent displayed such low class on Hannity that he is out of consideration in my view.
I am sure she appreciates an Ohioan supporting her. :-)
I don’t know much about her. She has to be better than Boxer though, so if she is on the ballot in November, I’ll vote for her.
“I don’t know whether or not Carly Fiorina qualifies as a RINO”
She is absolutely NOT a RINO! The true RINO in this race is Tom Campbell. If being Berkeley professor doesn’t give people a clue, then I don’t know what else will, not to mention that he is so liberal, he shouldn’t even be a Republican.
Chuck DeVore is a respectable man, but you have to face facts here: he is seen as a “right-wing nutcase” by many of the mainstream voters in California, he trails in the polls; I just don’t think he’ll win.
Carly Fiorina, on the other hand, resonates well with many people. She’s conservative and is running on a conservative platform, but doesn’t come across as being a “right-wing wacko.”
If Carly hadn’t done what she did at HP, it wouldn’t be where it is today (revenues over $115 BILLION last year).
The primary is June 8th.
Carly and Tom are not the only candidates in the hunt.
That so many here are infatuated with her is not a surprise. Rinoism is tough to cure. It usually involves culling the host from the herd.
Go Chuck!
as long as there are those who mislead the base and preach prgamatism and electability before a single ballot has been cast,, the GoP is doomed to be a second rate party.
Dr. Tom Coburn is arguably the most conservative member of the U.S. Senate. If you are using the term “RINO” to describe him just because he said that Nancy Pelosi, while 100% wrong for America, is a pleasant person, then you need to get yourself a new dictionary.
And if Carly Fiorina’s issue positions are the same as those of George W. Bush, John McCain and Lindsey Graham, she’ll be the most conservative U.S. Senator from California in 60 years.
Hypocrital cover for her lack of experience and voting.
So what! This is California. Do you want 6 more years of Boxer?
Maybe Chuck DeVore will somehow take off. But if not, then it looks as if Carly is the best we can get this time around.
California is a VERY expensive state to campaign in, so it’s not easy to fight the machine(s).
I would vote for her over Boxr too.
But I would vote for a more conservative candidate in the Primary.
Boxer is a vicious left-wing partisan and should go, even if the only alternative is the kind of RINO who helps put these people back in office.
But if there is a better candidte on the slate in the California Primary, I would go with them rather than Carly “Farina”.
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