Fiorina has no qualifications whatsoever. Her entire career consists of two executive positions with disastrous results. She bailed from Lucent just before it bombed, and her track-record at HP was dubious at best.
The “about Carly” section on her website is full of misrepresentations:
– “A self-made woman…”
The fact that she married an AT&T exec may have helped her go from secretary to VP in just a few years.
– “During her tenure, HP’s revenues doubled, from $44 billion to $88 billion”
Revenues doubled because HP merged with Compaq, a company of almost equal size. The true test of her performance as CEO, stock price, fell by more than half its value under her tenure (Dell’s stock went up.) She drove out the Hewlett and Packard families and impacted the culture of the company in a bad way. Eventually the board got wise and tossed her out. HP has been doing much better since.
Carly is a master of marketing and manipulation. She’s very good at promoting herself and gaining more power, at the expense of the organizations she runs. I sure hope she doesn’t end up in the Senate.
