Carly was a terrible leader
That's putting it mildly. In terms of both jobs and shareholder value destroyed, she has a decent shot at the title of "Worst CEO Ever", of any company.
No doubts about her solipsistic incompetence. :)
Just as devil's advocate, was she that much worse than the other Dear Leaders of her corporate generation? Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Ginni Rometty? Heck, even the older but monstrously odious Jack Welch can fit in this cauldron.
The idea of something like the HP Way is anathema to such people.
was she that much worse than the other Dear Leaders of her corporate generation? Mark Hurd, Meg Whitman, Ginni Rometty?
Elizabeth Holmes has set the bar to a new low, but Fiorina is right down there with Welch. So much destruction and for what? How many years have those people set the world back?
Carly was a terrible leader but she, in a sense, was selected for her known personality by a system that had already gone off the cliff. A number of books came out around that time about the HP board and its internal/external conflicts.
I had a job for a while watching the current HP for technological and business developments and it was like being a gawker at a side show.