"Ian"  wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4250315.stm
>
> "Ms Fiorina, one of America's most powerful businesswomen, said she was
> leaving after a dispute with the company's board over future strategy"
>
> Surely that was "once one of..."
>
> However, I don't regret never getting involved in the
> bashing that can be the boardroom. It's pretty egointense
> in there.
>
> Here she is, poor woman, just because she caused HP's shares to halve
> their value in two years, and then fucked the company so it's not worth
> much more than its real-estate, and she's out like that. She's only had
> 5 and a half years to try and pick up the mess she's caused, I think
> she should be given more time. And don't you think the stock market is
> just so competitive eh? Wouldn't it be nice if everyone could win? It's
> discrimination you know, against women.
>
> Business is just so unfair to the people who can't cut it, isn't it? I
> think business should be made more friendly to women, and people who
> aren't very good. Someone should pass a law to make it illegal to
> compete with a company where there's a female CEO who makes really
> stupid decisions, like buy into ultracompetive IT sectors in a bear
> market.
>
> So, looking forward, what's going to happen to HP, now that she's
> completely fucked it? Epson could pick up the printer market, if it
> wasn't for HP putting stupid device drivers on their allinone network
> printers that fuck up the most commonly used operating system in the
> world, XP. Was that another Fiaronoism?
>
> Carly :  Noun. "Fuck up" - To do a Carly.
>
DEC was fucked --> Compaq gobbled it up, then Compaq was fucked--->HP
gobbled it up, then HP was fucked (internal management cultures
characterised by multiple little fiefdoms with little awareness of the 'big
picture')!! What happened to Lord Hanson - that guy wasn't sentimental or
hampered by the infinitely finessed finer details of fluffy human resource
management. If a company was bloated and ineficient his cure wasn't to try
and 'reform' the incumbent 'business culture' - mass sackings sometimes
decimating HQ staff by 90% or more and replacing them with far fewer but
EFFECTIVE replacements made that guy a packet!!!

Phil




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