Carly Fiorina has stepped down as Hewlett-Packard Co.’s chief executive officer and chairman, citing differences with HP’s board over business strategy, the company announced Wednesday morning.
This is called SPIN. The bottom line is Carly Fiorina did more for her own image and being in front of the press and wall street and less for the company she was to lead. Steping down or being asked to leave, who cares.
As they sang in the wizard of oz…”ha ha the witch is dead” is rather apropos here. My personal interactions with HP over the past year, via their dimwitted PR department and a colleague’s experience with their “Office of The President-Customer Affairs” was laughable. Absolute confusion, misdirection, lousy followup, no follow through. Questions going unanswered, etc.
HP was once a company that before the merger had integrity. Under Carly all they did was lose that in my opinion. They have become a bigger company, that manages to the quarter, not for the long run success of a business that was indeed an inventive, imaginative and successful company. In trying to be another IBM under Carly, in many ways they lost their way.