Posted on 09/18/2015 7:02:58 AM PDT by jimbo123
Carly Fiorina’s political future depends on whether she can defend her record as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
The likely GOP presidential candidate is aiming to do just that in her new book Rising to the Challenge, set to be released May 5, a day after the expected launch of her 2016 campaign. Fiorina now claims the company’s decision to fire her in 2005, after a turbulent six-year tenure, was a result of a dysfunctional board of directors and not her leadership.
In an interview with The Hill, Fiorina said members of her own board leaked confidential information to the media to undermine her decisions, though she stopped short of alleging outright sexism. She was the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company. “Men understand other men’s need for respect, but they don’t always understand women’s need for respect,” Fiorina said. “The situation that transpired in the boardroom was all about certain board members wanting to protect their position when they felt threatened, because their behavior was against the code of conduct, and they knew that I as a leader would not tolerate that conduct.”
When asked again if she thought underlying sexism contributed to her firing, she said, “There’s no question that women in positions of authority are scrutinized differently, criticized differently and characterized different.”
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Still, she said President George W. Bush called to offer her a job in his administration the day after she was fired, though she declined to say which one.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
The biotch is back ...
He became dean of Duke Law School in 1971 and served until February 1973, when President Richard Nixon, a Duke Law School graduate, appointed him deputy attorney general, the No. 2 position in the Justice Department.
Nixon appointed Judge Sneed to the appeals court in August 1973. The circuit, which oversees federal courts in California and eight other states, soon became the nation's most liberal appellate court with an influx of appointees by President Jimmy Carter in the late 1970s.
-— Here’s one maybe you have’nt heard. I worked for HP as a contractor on a federal gig while she was there. I found out HP was seriously padding the bill, lying about everything the were supposedly doing and laughing about it. -—
In last night’s show Mark Levin recalled an article he read regarding accounting irregularities during her tenure, “The article wasn’t just a hatchet job, it was about real fraud.”
Maggie any luck finding the article mentioned here?
I think you can add Carson to that list as well. He mentioned knowing GWB and their personal friendship as well as visits to the WH. Also said that he had known CF for over 20y. Bookends.
Cries about Trump saying “look at that face” but SHE chooses a horse for her code name. Creating “horseface” herself
True and hilarious!
Making a decision based on facts is not being “trigger happy”. I guess if we used that reasoning, you are being trigger happy on the four you have said you will absolutely will not vote for.
Lucent and its major competitors all started goosing sales by lending money to their customers. In a neat bit of accounting magic, money from the loans began to appear on Lucent’s income statement as new revenue while the dicey debt got stashed on its balance sheet as an allegedly solid asset. It was nothing of the sort.Pretty bad. It's hard to believe that she would be ignorant of this. But even if she was, she would be negligent, at the very least.Carly Fiorina's Troubling Telecom Past (Forbes, 2010)
“To be fair I don’t hear Trump talking much about his mistakes .. or other candidates talking about their mistakes either for that matter.”
When called on his past support for John Roberts didn’t Cruz say he had been wrong? And Rubio has said in the past he was wrong to support his amnesty bill (though I very much doubt his sincerity).
SEXISM is what got her the job, not what made her fail... the only reason she got the job is certain members of the HP board decided they wanted a woman CEO.... They rode roughshod over anyone who objected to Carly because she was not capable, before her hiring or after.....
She’s a victim of Sexism, only in the fact that she was hired because she had no penis... the board was not going to hire a man, they made it clear... instead of hiring the best overall candidate they decided to hire a woman just to hire a woman.
Sadly the woman they hired was just not up to the task.
Fiorina says in her autobiography that she pushed back against the pressure for short-term growth at any cost, and two former Lucent collegues with whom she remains friendly back her up.On the other hand, this 2001 Fortune story, which described Lucent’s irresponsible growth habits, cites sources saying Fiorina made it known that Wall Street would generously reward companies that emphasized and delivered robust revenue growth.
And an executive who sat across the table from Fiorina in a big vendor financing negotiation, when asked this week about what he remembers of the bargaining, described Fiorina as being dead set on chalking up a huge sale. He adds: “The press release was always very important to her.”
Fiorina likes to point out that she left $20 million on the table. Of course, that’s using her numbers and assuming she would have cashed out her Lucent stock and options at once. If she had held onto the stock and options instead of selling them, that $85 million would have evaporated.Can I get me a golden parachute heeyah?That’s what happened to most Lucent investors. Soon after Fiorina left, the company began to collapse. Eventually its shares crashed to less than $1 and in 2006 the company merged with Alcatel ALU -0.97% .
Much of the decline in Lucent’s stock price was inevitable—a mania for all telecom investments in the late 1990s raised shares in every big telecom equipment maker to irrational heights. Yet it’s hard to shake the feeling that the company’s wild pursuit of growth gave it much further to fall.
didn’t catch that but if so — hats off to them.
She is one intriguing person. I sense Fiorina is as cold and heartless as Clinton.
Buy me a yacht. Rub elbows with the elitist. Get regular botox. And lots and lots of male attention.
Carly is not even in the same league as Sarah, in abilities or looks. She’s a liberal republican amnesty supporting feminist(all true look it up).
Look up the facts of"what happened" and the problems encountered during her tenure at HP and tell me what other conclusion you could come to?
Sexism my buns... she DIDN'T do the job the company expected.
She did, I believe, make sure she received her 42 MILLION dollar "golden parchute" when she exited.
Trump is right... she was a disaster for HP.
“By the RNC’s own admission, her advantage in running is not competence or accomplishments, but being female.”
if Cruz or Trump don’t get the nomination, i would love to see Fiorina take on the media, the debate moderators and Hillary. would you folks rather have Hillary or Carly as president? i know whom i would choose given that choice. and whose accomplishments have been less harmful to America? Cruz is my preference, but most times i don’t get to vote for my preference.
I will never vote for Carly. The nation is pretty much lost anyhow and cruz or trump are the only ones that will really change things. The rest are RINOs
[”She’s rich enough to move to a more conservative state and run for office again. “]
True. And it does not have to be all that conservative because she’s not.
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