On Feb 10, 2005, at 2:31 PM, James Newtons Massmind wrote:

> I have to agree: She destroyed HP.
>
Well, yeah, but there are lots of ways to fail.  HP is a lot
different now, in ways I don't particularly like, but there
is also Agilent, and you might argue that DEC, for instance,
stuck to their old ways much more stubbornly than HP did, and
look what that got them!

Fiorina was a strong leader and stuck to her vision of how things
should be.  Which I think is what one wants from a CEO, even if
you don't approve of her vision.  It's easy to see the ways her
policies seem to have hurt HP, but it's entirely impossible to
say what would have happened with different policies.

BillW
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