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Re:Carly Fiorina: Government shouldn't decide executive pay by homme on Thursday February 05, 2009 @07:59PM (#469103)
I don't know. Steve has excellent empathic design acumen and taste, but do you think thats whats required to stop making dumb loans and restructure and write off bad debt?

Not saying he couldn't do it, but the skill sets seem orthogonal.

The crux of my argument is the refutation that you need someone of that caliber to do what appears to be pragmatic banking and risk management.

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Re:Carly Fiorina: Government shouldn't decide executive pay by wheels on Thursday February 05, 2009 @08:17PM (#469148)
No, I don't. That part was a joke.

I was just using him as a case of someone who could obviously set his own salary working for a whole lot of places and decides to be compensated in other ways (stock, notably). He also went back at the brink of collapse and reanimated the company, so in that aspect it's similar.

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