8 Sep
2024
8 Sep
'24
9:02 p.m.
On Sat, Sep 07, 2024 at 07:07:49PM -0500, G. Branden Robinson wrote:
At 2024-09-07T22:30:24+0200, Alexander Schreiber
wrote:
Hard Choices (TM), impactful ... whatever, if in the end ones decisions
as CEO aren't profitable for the company, what is one even paid the
big bucks for? Any fool can run a company into the ground.
I was herding HP-UX when Carly Fiorina was evicted from HP and we
had the HP consultants (and our friendly HP field tech) on site at
that time. They told us that the folks back in the HP offices were
apparently literally dancing on the tables and singing "The witch
is dead, the witch is dead!".
Kind regards,
Alex.
--
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and
looks like work." -- Thomas A. Edison
And from reading between the lines, there seemed
to be no love lost
between the two sides at HP at the time ("old HP" and "Compaq
acquisition").
Yeah, but Carly Fiorina was _impactful_, man, and that's the most
important thing you can be in this business. When it's a bad idea and
you do it anyway and tons of people complain, that just means you're
capable of making the Hard Choices(tm).