Comments on: Fiorina says board let emotion trump reason

Former HP chief executive talks about the dynamics of HP's board and lessons learned from its tribulations.

[stopspin]

Lord..grant me just one day without..

hearing more, and more, and more from the two chief whiners, and
yet, self-ordained gifts to corporate H-P non-success , Fiorina and
Dunn.

[mbjr]

agreed...

This HP drama is getting old. Not like it was interesting in the first place. Just a bunch of 50+ year old kids desperate for attention.

[mbjr]

agreed

This HP drama is getting pretty old. Not like it was interesting to begin with. Just a bunch of 50+ year old kids crying out for attention.

[ServedUp]

Avoiding HP News altogether. Boooooring.

All HP articles aren't really all that interesting.

But I sure do find CNET typos very entertaining. Way-to-go CENT!

Oops, I mean CNET.

[J. Blow]

Ave CEO lifespan is 18mo

She lasted, what, a little over 3 years? Take your $30M and shutup. Please.

[heystoopid]

OMG

oh my, the late Dr Laurence J Peters said it so plainly in his book, written way back in 1968!

But then again, her information is past history anyway, so why is she indeed repeating all her mistakes , errors and poor options for all to see?

Perhaps the title should read "I did it the wrong way and learned nothing and went nowhere anyway!"

[als]

Are You Kidding Me

"What do you think the chances are that a political office would be among the things you would consider?
Fiorina: I think it is certainly something I would consider."

Carly said, "no American has a God given right to a job", as she was off shoring HP jobs as fast as she could. Remember this when you vote.

[tsipper]

She must be on crack!

Where do you start? She tried to run not 1 company, but 2 into the ground with a merger in which both companies stock took a dive(rare), in which she took out a $4B loan from Deutche Bank to change their vote supporting the deal (which passed 51/49), and in which she cashed a $30M+ check for no reason.

[felgercarbnaysay]

Halloween came early

Gee, look who flew her broom back into the headlines.

If the business world is that much against women, the explain Carol Bartz, Carly!

No, your arrogance and incompetence caused your removal. Your gal-pal Dunn is cut from the same cloth. The last thing young women need are role models that are stupid, vain, arrogant image-obsessed witches like you.

There are plenty of important woman CEOs around, the difference is they don't wear their sex on their sleeves or play the blame-game when they screw up.

GO AWAY!

[Phocion]

WWWWWWWWAAAAAAA

sniff, sniff, sniff ..... WWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAA

[lketchum12]

Fiorina and Dunn have a point and a case

First of all, I have to share that I am male, a retired soldier and a business founder and owner - in other words, people do not come to be more conservative, republican, or fiercely independent than men like myself. I want government to restrict itself to building great intertstates and smart bombs and not much else.

That said, I assess Fiorina and Dunn were hosed, given up, used and tossed under the bus.

I've been in many a corporate board rooms, and just about every time I leave I feel like I need a shower and a priest, or both.

I have literally spun men around in their seats and looked at their backs... being asked by one man what I was looking for... I replied, "a dorsal fin!"

Beginning with Fiorina and through Dunn, HP started to show some life, and dare I say, some "Stones." It seems to me, that the "ink first and only" dolts on the board didn't much like the new direction and they started to undermine these two CEO's - leaks being only one tools used to bring them down.

In the Army, and in my company, we measure people by what they do - what they do is what they are.

I loved that about combat arms units - they were blind - to all but what a man was. I'd give a thick nickle to be able to share that ideal with the well dressed "gentlemen" of HP's board.

Fiorina may not wish to say it, so someone has to, she and Dunn were not treated fairly. Creepy little men do not know how to do that - they do not know how to fight, much less live by a code that places everything ahead of one's self.

[Yortuk]

Hypocrite

Carly instigated the biggest, ugliest board row I've ever seen with her mud-slinging proxy fight leading up to the Compaq merger. The dysfunction she talks about is the example she set, and the result of her own poor leadership.

Although I must admit, her mud-slinging, truth-twisting, responsibility-dodging ways should serve her well in her political career.

[thedevilbegone]

LOL...

I always admired the lady's guts... But looks like she has a limited vocab... 'dysfunction'

Cheerio, lady..... ;)

[Dragon Forge]

When you're a hammer , everything looks like a nail

This goes to the credit of CNET readers' intelligence to easily sidestep the bilgewater & blather.

OK, are we reporting here, or doing some gender biased, 'self-promotionarial' charity work. I am not sure what made this correspondent try and eek this out but, 'value added sour grapes' I don't think so.

First of all we are not entertained by extending the voyueristic 'celebrity' watching as might be supposed and I find nothing redeeming in this article, sorry.

Secondly, she is just as responsible for supporting and escalating the shoddy, careless, punitively prosecutional vindictive culture of hp as any previous or current dictator.

Had she actually had the gumption or intestinal fortitude to provide a little credence that hp is rife with an out-of-control mindset, we could possibly begin to entertain the remote possiblity of her getting incidentally swept up or an oversight of negligence.

That's another nail in,... lol.

[Dragon Forge]

When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail

This goes to the credit of CNET readers' intelligence to easily sidestep the bilgewater & blather.

OK, are we reporting here, or doing some gender biased, 'self-promotionarial' charity work. I am not sure what made this correspondent try and eek this out but, 'value added sour grapes' I don't think so.

First of all we are not entertained by extending the voyueristic 'celebrity' watching as might be supposed and I find nothing redeeming in this article, sorry.

Secondly, she is just as responsible for supporting and escalating the shoddy, careless, punitively prosecutional vindictive culture of hp as any previous or current dictator.

Had she actually had the gumption or intestinal fortitude to provide a little credence that hp is rife with an out-of-control mindset, we could possibly begin to entertain the remote possiblity of her getting incidentally swept up or an oversight of negligence.

That's another nail in,... lol.

[chuck_whealton]

Why do we have to hear from this lady?

Why can't she just take the dollars that HP shareholders were
fleeced out of and enjoy her retirement?

Charles R. Whealton
Charles Whealton @ pleasedontspam.com