Archive for January 19th, 2007

I Guess Carly Thinks Performance Doesn’t Matter

January 19th, 2007

By Ira Winkler

If Carly Fiorina can’t figure out why she was fired, maybe she should ask the 25,000+ people who were fired, or the shareholders who lost $60Billion, because of her poor performance.

Poor little Carly Fiorina. She is going around pitching her new book, talking about how she was wronged by HP. Along the way, she tries to stress that her book is an inspirational story about a secretary growing up to be CEO of one of the largest companies in the world. She is pitching herself as the paragon of a successful business woman. During her interviews, she talks about how she couldn’t get out of bed in the morning following the weeks after her firing. She bemoans the HP Board of Directors for not telling her to her face as to why she was being fired, and she claims that to this day she still doesn’t know why she was fired. If she doesn’t know that, then she was not qualified to be HP’s CEO in the first place, and was definitely not qualified to continue as the CEO.

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