An Engineer's View of Carly Fiorina's Leadership

prostoalex writes "There is a pretty damning look at Carly Fiorina's leadership while at HP on TechnologyReview.com. The author was working for HP Labs, the center of invention and innovation for the company, only to be told that nothing exciting will happen in the tech market since it's a mature industry. He left the company in 2003. "The lab was never packed with genius marketers. Carly told us we had no business sense, and that every project needed to make a profit within three years or less. She usually said that right before the research budget got slashed again and more lab employees were laid off."" Update: 03/19 03:13 GMT by Z : As detailed on the TechnologyReview page, they have retracted the story on the grounds that they can no longer vouch for it.

Comments

And she want's to run the World Bank!?

[Anonymous Coward]

"nothing exciting will happen in the tech market since it's a mature industry"

So is that it with the planet then? "I'm sorry, the planet is mature, nothing more will happen, history has ended. Please make your way in an orderly fashion to the exits..."

What a boring woman!

HP on the 'Bacon Sandwich'

[Anonymous Coward]

I'm not too impressed with the way that the food division is heading either.

Dammit, what about open sauce?

Re:Remember Palmer?

[Anonymous Coward]

The rot started long before Carly with Robert Palmer's "leadership" of Digital.

It was all downhill after "Addicted to Love".

Re:Fiorina's comeback: World Bank?

[cmowire]

I bet that'll make the anti-globilization folks happy. They've been wanting something to happen to the world bank. :)

Re:more D than R

[Psychopundit]

I fail to see how Hello Kitty is relevant to this world. In fact, the prospect of it ever becoming so is truly frightening.

Carly's Looks?

[yukio]

I swear that she and Celine Dion are really one and the same person.

With about the same abilities in their respective fields.

Re:No one cares...

[virtual_mps]

Bulls**t. When she was hired at HP she had seemingly done a good job at Lucent and clearly deserved a shot at the position.

Yeah, she did great things for lucent. They might even recover someday.

But Carly made money for stockholders!

[MillionthMonkey]

Carly made lots of money for stockholders. I can personally attest to this.

I bought 26 shares of HP stock on February 1 at 19.75. Carly leaves, and I dump my stock on the 9th at 21.50!!! Woo hoo! I made $45 in just 8 days (minus commission). Just look at that selloff spike. Some of that was me!

Anyone who knew anything about HP was partying that day. Even at Agilent everyone was giddy. If I had known Carly was about to get dumped I would have hurled my life savings into HPQ.

I understand she has a bright future ahead of her in the Republican Party. If the Republicans are smart they'll wait until right before an election to kick her out of the party.

Re:Fiorina's comeback: World Bank?

[multiplexo]

I bet that'll make the anti-globilization folks happy. They've been wanting something to happen to the world bank. :)

I wonder if we could get Carly to take over Al Qaeda, in three years goodbye threat of terrorism, and I'd imagine that when you leave Al Qaeda you don't get a 20 million dollar severance package, probably just a bullet in the head and a shallow grave somewhere in the Afghanistan plains.

Re:I had no idea she was that disliked

[killjoe]

Where I work they buy the worst toilet paper in the world to save money. This stuff is like sandpaper. Mind you this is a company worth around a billion dollars.

So don't make fun of providing toilet paper, especially if it's nice and soft. Hell I'd switch companies if somebody offered me the same pay but better toilet paper.