Comments on: Web 2: Help Me Interview Carly Fiorina

By: Marsha Keeffer

Marsha Keeffer — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:12:52 +0000

Nilofer Merchant states that companies succeed when they kill off so-so ideas and focus on key strategies to help them win repeatedly. How did Ms. Fiorina do that at HP and how will she use that strategy if elected to the Senate?

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By: David Trilling

David Trilling — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:52:41 +0000

A month before the end of her tenure at HP, Fortune magazine’s celebrated financial reporter wrote a Fortune cover story compellingly arguing that Fiorina’s big bet on the merger w/Compaq hadn’t paid off. What evidence can she provide that if California makes a big bet on her it won’t take the beating (that it can so Ill afford) that she inflicted on HP?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:01:52 +0000

In a recent Washington Post interview Elizabeth Warren suggested that the American leadership class in the last few decades had essentially come to view our middle class as a "Thanksgiving Turkey" to be carved up and devoured rather than nurtured as the core of freedom and viable representative government.(her video is available via my blog if interested)

Many would suggest that the corporate sector has participated with political leadership in BOTH parties in that feast...

And profited by moves to cheap labor and development of foreign markets only made possible via the use of the accumulated capital and purchasing power of the American middle class who've been completely left behind in this transition.

Over time expanded trade is good, but the inevitable pain is being borne here by those who financed it through generations of blood and sweat?

If labor is ONLY a component in production then, you are right, cost is the only consideration...

But if there is a relevancy to the viability of the social organism (see Social Networks & The Social Organism - Healing the Breach ) which is at the true heart of Adam Smith's ideas...

then this cannot be so and labor's betterment must be considered as central to the social organism itself!

So, that's my question for Ms. Fiorina...

How does she view the relationship between labor and business as it relates especially to cross-border issues of trade, immigration, labor-rights, taxes and law?

Oh yeah... and her view on intra-national usury as a source of financial profit vs social cost?

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:13:33 +0000

In a recent Washington Post interview

By: Gianni Anchois

Gianni Anchois — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:39:06 +0000

I work at HP and I met Carly in person twice. I think a lot of us still miss her vision and charisma. It would be interesting to know how she thinks that the experience of running one of the largest tech companies in the world – and being malignantly booted out of it – impacted her view on large corporations. As a politician, does she believe that corporations need to have values and core principles that go beyond share value and profit? Is this still applicable and valuable in the 21st century? Do politicians have values? Thanks.

By: PPC Coach and Mentor

PPC Coach and Mentor — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 10:43:58 +0000

Does she find any differences among political groups in terms of level of advancement and willingness to embrace technology? I guess I am wondering more on a personal, day-to-day level.

By: Sachin

Sachin — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:34:55 +0000

Was the transition from a technology leader to public life a natural one or was it more of a “I’ve done everything I can in tech and now it’s time to try something else”? Also does she foresee more technology leaders moving into public service in the future?