Carly started HP's tumble, but it seems like her actions were a drop in the bucket compared to the damage Meg Whitman has caused. Thoughts?
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In between those two, there were two others - one of whom was the worst ever. That is Herd. The present CEO is in the unenviable position of cleaning up the terrible terrible deeds of those who came before her. She of course bears the brunt of all the anger, that is is how it works I guess.
If we aren't doing good at our jobs we get FIRED.
MEG. You get an F for your job role. Why do you still make millions?
I hope you can't sleep.
Another vote for Carly. It looks like Meg will loose another election... :-D
@3yag: You are right Carly did not break up the company, but she bought a behemoth dead weight PC company and turned HP from a renowned engineering company into a commodity PC company.
How many people did Carly fire? How many did Meg fire?
In what ways did Meg or Carly make life hell for employees?
How has each impacted earnings and benefits?
Carly seems to be the one that burns in people's minds, but it seems like by most metrics, Meg wins it hands down. Did Carly ever go around with sticky notes on people's monitors because they weren't in their cube so she could dress them down personally and fire them? Did Carly fire 100k+ employees and break up the company? Did Carly ever gather up employees to tell them what a wonderful job upper management was doing in culling them?
I got a new job before my own culling. I went from a soul-leaching cube farm to a happier place, with energized, motivated people, lots of perks, and nobody nickle-and-dimes me over the smallest expenses (One tool I spent 2 years of submitted and updated business cases for trying to get from HPE took 2 hours at my new company). Better pay and benefits that isn't Obamacare is nice, too.
I guess in that light, for me, the pain of Meg did urge me to move on, so she's got that going for her.
Herd is arguably the worst ever, closely followed by the other two mentioned in this post, in 75+ year history of HP. He decimated R&D, decimated employee benefits and decimated morale. The biggest blunder made by the board is selecting these individuals to lead HP. Of course the wall street types cheered him on because they love when they see massive cost cutting and slashing and burning of workforce.
Are you kidding me? Carly beats the crap out of Meg a thousand times!
My vote is for Carly as well (I've been here for 25 years).
@1lre, I just saw that YouTube video... It almost made me cry... We lost such an amazing opportunity. We are so good (or at least we were in the past) creating a vision - even developing prototypes -, and then stopping right there (with other Companies actually launching real products and profiting from the same concepts). In terms of HPE, there's no salvation. In terms of HP, Inc., I hope the history doesn't repeat again with virtual reality, 3d printing, etc. For the ones of us that have been here for years and years, we have seen time and time again how concepts developed in our Labs are "stole" by other Companies that actually execute.
Another vote for Carly. That woman should have been in an asylum since long time ago.
Carly. Without any doubt.
I vote for Meg. Carly was simply insane (it was all about her, and doing "spashy" things to leave her footprint), but Meg is really,really dangerous... Meg took the worst of Hurd, and the "good intentions" of Apotheker, and figured out how to create the final demise of the Company. I actually liked Leo.... He was just too naive and simplistic on his approach. He was not CEO material, but a good visionary.
Carly made the decision to stop work on "information appliances" ... in HP Labs. That was portable information appliances with a touch color screen which are always connected to the internet aka the smartphone. She bought Compaq instead. That was in 2002 long before Apple released the i-Phone in 2007. How much is Apple worth today????
She wins it hands down.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2AkkuIVV-I
The battle of the hairdos... hehehe Meg definitively wins. Fiorina had no clue about anything, and just wanted to be a rock star (and be adored by everyone). Meg - on the other side - knows extremely well what she has been doing since day one. Meg is pure evil.
OMG.... Carly, one zillion times more... Meg is terrible, but Fiorina was in a class of her own... The only mention of her name still gives me chills... Boo!! Happy Halloween!