Carly Sneed
Chris Evert, Separated at Birth
Salon.com Technology | End of a hatchet woman Now it seems like a good time to pile on Carly. This is a good blast for sure. Make sure to also read my piece at Marketwatch which is an entirely different take on the whole thing. She’s laughing all the way to the bank.
Feb. 10, 2005 | Over Carly Fiorina’s six-year reign, as HP’s best and brightest headed for the doors, whether they jumped or were pushed, some of them were not shy about calling a reporter who had covered the company for many years. As I talked to these talented people from every level of the company, one interpretation of events emerged with remarkable consistency. Carly had no intention of sticking around Hewlett-Packard for very long, these folks said. Her real intent was to do a quick, Lee Iacocca-style turnaround, accompanied by the best autobiography money could buy, and in 2004 run for the U.S. Senate, against Barbara Boxer.
Did you mean: Separated?
Why does your article URL have this in it?
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Is it possible That Carly took some secrets from lucent? Hmmm.
Certainly dosn’t look like a TKO any time soon.
This Icon of a woman will pop up again.
BTW she is really nice in person and loves to party.
Anyway I have a slew of pictures in the photo section of Carly on TCF.NET
your Readers may enjoy, –Richard
There’s nothing even approaching risk for anyone waltzing into a CEO job, nowadays. You can fiddle while Rome burns — or fiddle with yourself while trying whatever occurs to you to nudge your new corporate spaceship into a new orbit.
Look at the end result of this overlong fiasco. HP’s stock diminishes by 50% and Carly laughes all the way to the bank with an 8-figure severance check.
As an outsider, I think the HP/Compaq merger is a perfect example of another of the reasons why the US economy is decaying.
This merger had nothing going for it when it was done, still hasn’t, but it was done so that a group of relatively few people could make a few billions. These are the executives (Carly really isn’t crying about this affair) and the investment bankers.
Notice that what created value in the first place – engineers from HP and Compaq manufacturing – was what was dumped in the deal! That is, the merger ELIMINATED value while creating a huge amount of WEALTH for the ones pushing it! This is predatory management, in my opinion, and only now did the heads of HP get the strenght necessary to start making corrections. Let’s hope it’s not too late, but I fear it may be. Again, as an outsider.
“En vista del contenido en este registro de la tela, la evaluación BOT de Google se parece aspirar.”
El BOT está consiguiendo a Juan mejor.
Potete fiddle mentre Roma si brucia. È l’economia stupido.
It’s just ducky.
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Hey John,
Speaking of your MarketWatch column, are you aware that you have a broken link on the blog page? The link to the list of
MarketWatch columns should be:
Maybe you may know this is broken, and MW is just uptight about deep linking. If that’s the case, oh well.