Nickname: siliconvalley-gal

Review: As a former Sun Microsystems employee, I admire Carly. She did want was necessary to turn HP around. Meanwhile at Sun Microsystems, it has taken forever to move forward and make changes.

Date reviewed: Feb 17, 2007 3:13 PM

Nickname: let

Review: Obviously a lot of Carly haters on this board. I didn't know much about her career at HP except through the media - which generally made into the celebrity CEO that she became. However, the book, coupled with recent HP news, has convinced me that she was in fact, a competent visionary who turned HP around. Mark Hurd is clearly reaping the fruit of Carly and her management team's hard work that included the painful HP/Compaq merger and the reorgs. Let's also remember that the Dow is at its all time high - HP plummeted and rose with the markets like most companies and Mark Hurd is benefitting from the buoyant markets and general improvements in the tech sector. Let's see what he and his team are really made of when we experience another tech bust like the one Carly went through from 01 - 04 with the ship turning in early 05. Carly, I wasn't a particular fan of yours but your candor and what I considered a balanced perspective has made me reconsider your tenure at HP.

Date reviewed: Oct 28, 2006 8:09 PM

Nickname: Ex-HPer

Review: First Person has it mostly right. Carly was a terrific visionary who had a fatal flaw. But it was many of the execs that worked for her that let the company down and created the conditions that cost many employees their jobs. The HP Way had deteriorated into a zero-accountability culture by 2001, and Carly tried very hard to change that.

Date reviewed: Sep 27, 2006 9:23 PM

Nickname: First Person

Review: A lot of these comments are being registered by people who think they know about Carly. As one who worked around her frequently, my opinion is that she worked hard to lead the moribund HP Way "culture" into a new era of realism. She was underminded by many around her, and her Achilles Heel was that she didn't fire a few senior execs sooner, pour encourager les autres. She did, in fact, trust in the wrong people for the most part, including some that were her closest proteges. History is full of heroes and heroines that were flawed, mainly because people are far from perfect. I think Hurd is awesome, but he's also reaping the benefits of Carly's work.

Date reviewed: Sep 26, 2006 4:03 AM

Nickname: me-myself-I

Review: Why? Why are you doing this to us? Carly, can you never leave us alone? When we finally thought you were gone you are coming back and haunt us again with your diva attitude.

Date reviewed: Sep 26, 2006 2:50 AM

Nickname: another HPer

Review: Decency should call for silence. But this is not the kind of human value Ms. Fiorina seems to care about. As an HPer I have not heard anyone so far regret her time. Wrong fit, and someone who has clearly just run for herself. Ms. Fiorina at some point managed to display an appearance of power. But she never embodied its essence: authority. Why on earth would I buy her book?

Date reviewed: Sep 25, 2006 8:56 AM

Nickname: Mentor

Review: The critical issues at HP are product development, operational excellence, and effective board leadership. It is not about Carly's memoir because individual personalities are secondary to the need for teamwork in the interest of shareowners. Mark Hurd has demonstrated strong operational and management skills during his tenure at HP. He should not be further distracted from his customers and employees. He needs a board of directors that provides guidance and support rather than one that appears to need both! HP needs strong, independent, and competent personal leadership. In the soon to be published book, "Compliance and Conviction: The Evolution of Enlightened Corporate Governance," Curtis J. Crawford, Ph.D. provides an insightful perspective on the challenges facing directors in the 21st Century. We should focus on the future because, as Dr. Crawford espouses, corporate success requires extreme personal leadership and action beyond obligation to earn long-term shareowner value!

Date reviewed: Sep 25, 2006 4:00 AM

Nickname: Woody

Review: One thing I disliked about Ms. Fiorina was that she strong-armed Deutsch Bank to vote for the merger. It was a very close vote and that tipped it. Also, she was too much of a show boater, which is not the HP way.

Date reviewed: Sep 23, 2006 8:06 PM

Nickname: Greed

Review: Carly is the epitome of her own greed. She will always have her supporters and most of them are former employees of a badly managed, Houston-based company whose bacon was saved by the actions of a prima donna.

Date reviewed: Sep 23, 2006 4:00 PM

Nickname: van

Review: This is typical Carly marketing. Why would you assume this would spur sales of her book? Only because you wrote this article. No one but wannabe girls would be aware, let alone buy a book written by a self-promoting incompetent. The only thing that could be of value here is a look into Carly's psyche and frankly who cares. Most of us believe that this type of activity will be shown to have started when Carly came to town. Do you really expect her to document what she destroyed?

Date reviewed: Sep 23, 2006 2:49 PM