[geeks] Carley Fiorina

[Lionel Peterson]

--- Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> 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.
> 
>    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.

This is consistent with my advice, if you can prove/demonstrate that it
was the unique products that gave the companies value, and their
cancellation drove shareholder value down.

Oh, and I can probably find a picture of her in a suit, and as we all
know people that wear suits to work suck (right Dave?!)...


=====
Lionel

"Nothing would please me more than being able to hire ten
programmers and deluge the hobby market with good software"
Bill Gates, in "An OpenLetter to Hobbyists" dated February 3, 1976
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