Re:Why HP Fell
by anthonybsd on Monday August 20, 2018 @09:52AM
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I remember shortly after Compaq disaster, Carly Fiorina pioneered this initiative called "Adaptive Enterprise". She went on CNET to do an interview about it. The interviewer kept asking her to explain what "Adaptive Enterprise" meant and she danced around the question talking about synergies and such. That's when a lightbulb went up in my head "This woman is a Category 5 moron".
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Not a "Category 5 moron", but a Category 5 PHB (a Dilbert reference). Marketers and clueless boards love them: they glue together buzzwords and fad memes that sounds important, powerful, and modern to the ill-informed.
Re:Why HP Fell
by selimthegrim on Monday August 20, 2018 @11:12AM
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Her first husband said the only book she ever read was “Dress for Success”
So? Is reading books the only way to grow?
Not reading is certainly a yellow alert in my book (pun semi-intended). If not books, at least trade magazines & publications.
Most of us have low tolerance for corporate bullshit, but please don't turn that into a personal attack. That's a low impulse which encourages others to go lower.
Even if you're right, there are plenty of such execs out there, and the presence of one at the top is as much an effect as a cause.