[ladyjane]

I wonder if her first executive order will be to change the window dressings in the fleet of executive jets; or to change the decor of the Corporate office ....

Is that what you would do?

It sounds like you don't like women very much. Maybe you've had to work for them and didn't enjoy the experience.

As a matter of fact Meg Whitman took a company with 30 employees and revenues of less than $5 million and turned it into a company with more than 15,000 employees and 8 BILLION in revenues. She did that in less than 10 years.

And you?

[Hodar]

Whitman also served on the board of directors of the eBay Foundation, Procter & Gamble and DreamWorks SKG, until early 2009.[13][34] She was appointed to the board of Goldman Sachs in October 2001 and then resigned in December 2002, amidst controversy that she had received shares in several public offerings managed by Goldman Sachs.[35][36][37] (see "Ties to Goldman Sachs" for further detail)

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Yup, I guess I'm just a sexist ....

[USFRIENDINVICTORIA]

Good reply! (BTW, I’m a man & I’ve had good and bad bosses, of both sexes.)

[SoJoCo]

I have nothing against Meg Whitman and she may very well be a competent executive. But having made a major error in judgement in selecting the last CEO, one would think that the HP board would see the need to do a thorough, extensive search for his replacement since the company’s future may well rest on it. At the end of the day they may well have chosen Whitman. They may have chosen someone else. But at least it wouldn’t look like a hasty, panicked decision.