The appointment of Meg Whitman as CEO of HP is amazing. She is the former CEO of eBay who then spent a $100m failing to become governor of California (interestingly campaigning shoulder to shoulder with a former CEO of HP – Carly Fiorina – going for the Senate). Whitman flagged badly as CEO of eBay as it became more mature – ie. more like HP! For its first 60 years, HP exemplified everything that is great about Silicon Valley but since 1999 the company has lost 6 CEOs. The problem seems to be that the board has tried to appoint super stars.
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