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The Culture of Evasion

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the dodging-the-bullet dept.

theodp writes "In the wake of Patricia Dunn's resignation, Wired's Fred Vogelstein walked away less than impressed with HP CEO's Mark Hurd's spying mea culpa. He says it smacked more of standard corporate ass covering than leadership, especially coming 3 weeks after the scandal broke. His sentiments are echoed in Computerworld's Culture of Evasion, which was written before Hurd mounted an I-knew-nothing-defense. Hurd claims that he bailed out on a meeting that approved the spying, neglected to read the spying report directed to him, and was clueless about the tracer technology employed in the reporter-baiting false e-mail he personally gave thumbs-up to."

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  1. I can see plenty of prior art on this one.... by zuki · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    One of the most notable being Bill Clinton's memorable "I Smoked Pot But I Didn't Inhale", closely followed by his Monica-and-cigar experiments.

    Z.

  2. Why not? by misterhypno · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Harmonious Botch posted: ... (quoting someone else in this paragraph) Condemning actions, pushing out wrongdoers and apologizing for mistakes counts as leadership right after a scandal breaks. Three weeks in it looks like standard corporate ass covering.

    "Maybe he likes to think before he acts, maybe even consult a lawyer or two. Do the stockholders really want a CEO who shoots from the hip? Especially on issues as important as this? We're talking about a multi-million dollar company here that is front page news. The decisions are big, maybe big enough to make or break the company. I'd take a week or three to think if I were making decisions on that scale."

    Why not? We have a PRESIDENT who does - and claims to be PROUD of it!

    Lee Darrow, C.H.