Re: off to the farm to start new career ...
Date: Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:00:25 -0700 (PDT)
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Tuomas:
# ... even weirder was the decision to hire Hurd, a person who didn't get anything done in HP, except that all the qualified personnel left, very bad thing for a technology company. Not something that you or me would put in our CVs.
After several debacles in hiring top execs including Carly HP was in big trouble. No clear direction and losing marketshare except in the ink and printer business.
Hurd came around and let a bunch of people go. Established directions ... gained marketshare ... made money. Qualified people always can find something to do.
Anyone that would have taken over HP at that point had a lot of hard decisons to make. Hurd from the outside appeared to do a pretty dang good job of making some hard decisions. If you were one of the people on the inside at HP that got whacked sure you probably would have hard feelings. Life sucks and then you die right?
Personally to me it seems like Hurd seems like a sharp exec.
Looks like I will get to hear from him a week from monday at Open World. Just wondering how long he will actually talk? Received on Sat Sep 11 2010 - 19:00:25 CDT