by Jonathan Gifford | Nov 26, 2010 | Leadership Ideas
Jack Welch, ex-CEO of America’s giant General Electric Company, is famous for his insistence on ‘candor’ in business: the burning need to get to the heart of the problem without social niceties. But this approach has its potential downside. Avoiding...
by Jonathan Gifford | May 28, 2010 | Culture
There are definitely a few porky-pies in Carly Fiorina’s book, Tough Choices. Fiorina was, of course, the CEO of Hewlett-Packard who led the arguably pointless merger with Compaq and was later fired by her board of directors. As the chosen title for her...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 22, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Carly Fiorina was employed as the CEO of Hewlett Packard (HP) in July 1999. She drove through a programme of change in the face of what she saw as a company that had taken Bill Hewlett’s and David Packard’s philosophy of devolving decision-making as far as...
by Jonathan Gifford | Jan 22, 2010 | Business & Leadership
Carly Fiorina and the HP Compaq merger In September 2001, Hewlett Packard’s gutsy new CEO, Carly Fiorina – ‘the most powerful woman in business,’ according to Fortune magazine in 1998 – announced the acquisition by Hewlett Packard of the major PC manufacturer,...
by Jonathan Gifford | Nov 9, 2009 | Business & Leadership
When Carly Fiorina was employed as the CEO of Hewlett Packard in July 1999, her brief was clearly to bring about change. She soon decided that she and her top team were not merely ‘change agents’; what was needed were ‘change warriors’. So far, so macho. We must...
