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| Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, September 08 2012 @ 09:23 PM EDT |
| You may find it surprising, but there are still those who would hire the guy. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Charles888 on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 12:11 AM EDT |
It if hard to argue on the merits.
Where was the board in all of this.
I find it hard that nobody could
figure out that a company the size
of Nokia can make such a strategic
blunder, add to it a bunch of
tactical mistakes, and insist on
persevering in it for almost 2
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| Authored by: artp on Sunday, September 09 2012 @ 11:23 PM EDT |
A little late, but I just realized that I'd like to nominate
two of my most favorite-est CEOs of all FAIL-time: Carly
Fiorina and Durk Jager.
Of course, Carly is a household name now. She earned that
with some really anti-stellar moves that completely
destroyed the culture at HP. I had been using HP computers
since 1974, and wasn't happy with the attempt to blend two
incompatible companies like HP and Digital Equipment. DEC
scored the honor of being the only company I ever considered
throwing their reps out of my Data Center. DEC HATED HP!
They used to get hives just being in the same Data Center
with HP equipment, and let everybody know about it.
Durk Jager may not be a household name, but everybody
recognizes the company that he cut in half: P&G. Back in the
early 80s, he tried to take a consumer goods company into
the hard-core prescription drug industry. The stock dropped
by over half, leaving tens of thousands of P&G retirees high
and dry who had been comfortably set for retirement. And he
extended the retirement date for many thousands of others,
while simultaneously destroying what little financial backup
thousands of others had. Way to go, Durk!
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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