To say Carly Fiorina is a strong candidate for president because she ran a Fortune 500 company is dubious at best. During her tenure at Hewlett Packard, she made poor strategic decisions that resulted in a sharp decrease in net earnings and the company’s stock price, and a plummeting in employee morale. Her engineering of a controversial acquisition of Compaq, a move strongly opposed by top management in the company, including the founder’s son, caused the company’s finances to sink. Even though revenues increased from the merger, earnings fell every consecutive quarter. Her imperious and aloof management style also produced conflicts with many in the company. She oversaw massive layoffs during her tenure. By the time she was ousted in 2005, many people were happy to see her go.
Past performance is a good indicator of future performance. There’s a big difference between running a company (a job that you didn’t even do well) versus managing a political apparatus requiring diplomatic and shrewd political skills, skills required to influence and accommodate big egos in Washington.
All I know is something or someone sucked the lifeforce out of Hewlett Packard and now a once great company and its products suck. Consequently letting corporate vampires like Fiorina or Romney anywhere near America’s collective neck seems like a bad idea to me.
Come on guys lets move on from the Carly wrecked HP narrative. The IT gold rush of the late 90s early 2000s was an insane time and many companies and CEO’s were left in the dust. Don’t forget even the great Jobs made many mistakes and led many failed products and business ideas. Compaq were at the top of their game at the time. Just as Google bought YouTube for, what, 10 billion at the time and people thought they were nuts, but look at YouTube now, Google has made it back in spades
No such thing as a “second chance at greatness”. Jobs failed more often than he succeeded but he kept at it and was relentless. As luck would have it, the digital Walkman, i.e. the iPod (remember EVERYONE was calling their products the i this and the i that)…duh! bunch of antisocial wankers and joggers and spoilt rich kids decided it was cool again.
I was one of those that were repulsed by the clunky, closed, processor sucking, instant upgraded, freezing iTunes of the early 2000s, and uhhhhh browsing the web on the tiny iphone when laptops were still all the rage…how stupid and shortsighted i was in hindsight. Apple rules!
[quote=“BlownWideOpen”]No such thing as a “second chance at greatness”. Jobs failed more often than he succeeded but he kept at it and was relentless. As luck would have it, the digital Walkman, i.e. the iPod (remember EVERYONE was calling their products the i this and the i that)…duh! bunch of antisocial wankers and joggers and spoilt rich kids decided it was cool again.
I was one of those that were repulsed by the clunky, closed, processor sucking, instant upgrading, freezing iTunes of the early 2000s, and uhhhhh browsing the web on the tiny iphone when laptops were still all the rage…how stupid and shortsighted I was in hindsight. Apple rules![/quote]
Some say, her only task as Republican candidate is to attack Hillary, cause the male candidates won’t be able do that as fiercely as her. So she gets enough donations to stay in the race but not enough to have a chance at winning.
You mentioned Jobs. I could forgive Fiorina if she had moved on from HP and done something with herself. What did she do? A failed run for the senate, and then nothing. What, exactly, qualifies her to be president or even vice president?
Is America a nation led by figureheads who are just idiots? Not saying it is or was, just asking.
Pallin is a joke, Clinton IS qualified. Trump is a talk show host , who’s main job is self Trumpeting. I’d rather have Jay Leno as Prez over Trump if we have to have TAlk Show hosts.
It remains to be seen if Clinton II remains qualified to be president once she’s nominated and Julian Assange/Wikileaks dumps her emails from her “private” email server onto the internet. It’s hard to be commander-in-chief if your security clearance has been revoked.
