Perfect enough
Subtitle: Carly Fiorina and the reinvention of Hewlett-Packard
By: George Anders.
Publisher: Portfolio
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 248
ISBN-13: 9781591840039
Subjects: Fiorina, Carly.; Packard, David, 1912-1996.; Hewlett, William R.; Hewlett-Packard Company -- Management.; Hewlett-Packard Company -- History.; Electronic industries -- United States -- Management -- Case studies.; Computer industry -- United States -- Management -- Case studies.; Organizational change -- United States -- Case studies.; Women executives -- United States -- Biography.; Businesspeople -- United States -- Biography.
Genres: Case studies.; Biography.
Description: Recruited in 1999 to run Hewlett-Packard, the legendary company that helped invent Silicon Valley, Carly Fiorina promised big changes from the moment she arrived. For twenty years, she had consistently won over those who doubted her. And at HP she believed she could connect two hostile cultures, remaking the high-tech pioneer while staying true to the HP Way, the old-fashioned values of company founders Bill Hewlett and David Packard. Her zesty new style would be "perfect enough." In 2001, she entered an epic struggle with Walter Hewlett, son of HP's late cofounder, over the company's destiny and her stunning plan to merge with archrival Compaq. For months Fiorina and Hewlett battled in the boardroom, in the media, and, ultimately, in court. They couldn't stop until one side destroyed the other. In this fascinating human drama, George Anders draws on unmatched sources to reveal Fiorina to be both braver and more vulnerable than outsiders ever realized. And he discloses the role played by a powerful recluse in Idaho: the only person at HP who could bridge the old era and the new.