[geeks] Carley Fiorina

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 04:43:52PM -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Sunday, December 1, 2002, at 04:23 PM, Joshua D Boyd wrote:
> >I'm supposed to use her as an example in a paper on defining and
> >illustrating leadership, and while I don't like what she's been
> >threatening to do to cool machines, I'm having a hard time backing up
> >why it is bad leadership.
> 
>   I say it's bad leadership because those cool machines are what set 
> the company apart (well, the computer-related part of it) from the rest 
> of the PeeCee clone manufacturers.  Look at every other company which 
> has tried to dump their quality hardware and get into the PeeCee 
> busines...the majority of them have failed.

Could you give names?  I know there is Intergraph, what else?
 
>   So...she's looked at what other suits have done that have caused 
> their companies to fail, and she's doing the same thing in her company. 
>  That, in my opinion, constitutes bad leadership.  What it does to the 
> products that knowledgeable people like is really immaterial.

Intersting.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd