Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
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Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
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Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#2I have much respect for Meg Whitman, but she is not an ideal pick for HP. Her experience is with consumer companies -- eBay, P&G, Disney...Especially if HP spins off its PC business, that leaves the company as essentially a pure enterprise hardware/software play. Don't do it HP.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#3So wait, is Apotheker out yet or not?
Either way, what a waste of time his entire tenure has been.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#4The HP board is less organized than my local kickball league.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#5There was an article I read about this yesterday on one of the big tech websites, I'm not sure which one. HP basically hired a guy that was good at something, and operated in a certain way, and now that he's doing it, they're firing him. Granted, not everything has been well-executed, but come on, its like buying a motorcycle and then returning it because it isn't air-conditioned.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#6There was an article I read about this yesterday on one of the big tech websites, I'm not sure which one. HP basically hired a guy that was good at something, and operated in a certain way, and now that he's doing it, they're firing him. Granted, not everything has been well-executed, but come on, its like buying a motorcycle and then returning it because it isn't air-conditioned.
Really have to ponder why Whitman would take this job given the probability of being fired next year no matter what happens...
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#7I'm sure she will do for HP's reputation what she did for PayPal, and build value like she did with Skype.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#8Good grief. This reflects far worse on the board than anyone else- they hired the wrong guy, and then fired him when he did the things he said he would do.
Re: Whitman Expected to Get HP CEO Nod After Markets Close
#9During Whitman's gubernatorial campaign there was a great quote on SFGate, something like: "Meg Whitman is the only force in the universe that could compel me to vote for Jerry Brown." I felt the same way, pretty much.
I don't know much about her work at eBay, but the distant, autocratic way she ran her campaign -- she didn't get out and talk to people, she just stayed in her castle and put out ads -- strikes me as the antithesis of the management style needed by a company in crisis.
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