About pre-HP CED

The article is here. The authors have lost their hearts and minds on HP's innovative culture. I am also sentimental when I read it. How many companies that were once outstanding did not disappear because of the short-term profits (especially the company's top-level income) and the pressure on their shareholders.

The authors compared Carly Fiorina with the head of a plant in Hungary where pigs were born. Combine this article. If a CEO is hated by its employees, it is a failure. But Carly Fiorina took 20 million of the departure fee and is said to have to go to the World Bank to work again. The United States seems to have a tradition of reward failure, as long as the failure scale is large enough. As mentioned in the Slashdot discussion, let's look at Carly, Bush, CIA, ramsfield, And we will know this tradition. There is also an interesting 8: Generally, people think that the reason why Carly Fiorina stepped down is a lack of foresight (not created, just to cut the company's operating costs and merge with Compaq ). But the reason why the HP board forced her to step down this time was that she was not doing well.

The article mentions some interesting history. For example, Bill Packard reminds employees of the importance of Bold Innovation: Bill Hewlett used to remind us that the marketing guys said the HP-35 wocould be a failure because it was too small, and then we couldn't make them fast enough to meet the demand. the Marketing folks don't know everything."