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To: Hojczyk

Trump has said she was fired from Hewlett-Packard. He’s right.

She has been described as one of the worst tech CEOs of all time,[70][71][72] though others have defended her business leadership decisions and viewed the Compaq merger as successful over the long term.[9][73][74][75]

Opinions on Fiorina’s business career are divided, as they are influenced by media rankings during her time at HP which claimed that she was the “most powerful woman in business,” and by claims after her resignation that she was the “worst tech CEO of all time.”[70][71][72] In 1998, Fortune magazine ranked Fiorina as “most powerful woman in business” in its inaugural listing[67] and she remained in that listing throughout her tenure at HP.[68] In 2004, she was included in the Time 100 ranking of “most influential people in the world today”[76] and named tenth on the Forbes list of The World’s 100 Most Powerful Women.[77]

Since her forced resignation, CBS News,[70] USA Today[71] and Portfolio.com[78] have ranked Fiorina as one of the worst American (or tech) CEOs of all time. In 2008, InfoWorld grouped her with a list of products and ideas as flops, declaring her tenure as CEO of HP to be the sixth worst tech flop of all-time and characterizing her as the “anti-Steve Jobs” for reversing the goodwill of American engineers and alienating existing customers.[79] According to an opinion piece by Robin Abcarian in the LA Times, Fiorina “upended HP’s famously collegial culture, killed off its beloved profit-sharing program and hung her own portrait between those of the company’s two sainted founders” before “flam[ing] out in spectacular fashion”.[80] Katie Benner of Bloomberg View described Fiorina’s leadership at HP as a “train wreck” and a “disaster”.[81]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carly_Fiorina


50 posted on 08/06/2015 4:38:36 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
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To: NKP_Vet
The criticism of Carly Fiorina in Wikipediadoes not describe the nature of the Dot Com fiasco and its effects on HP and other high tech industries. The context for her performance would give a more balanced picture. And, this sentence found in Wikipedia raised my scepticism: " HP's board of directors was characterized as ineffective and unethical." That tells me she was in conflict with a group who would have put HP in jeopardy with the Department of Justice to keep the money coming into their pockets.
87 posted on 08/06/2015 5:07:56 PM PDT by jonrick46 (The Left has a mental disorder: A totalitarian mindset..)
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