[geeks] Carley Fiorina

[Dave McGuire]

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.

          -Dave

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