Fiorina was the CEO, yes, but the workers were doing their job and that is what made her look good.  She talks like she did it all by herself.  If it wasn’t for the workers there would be no CEO.  She doesn’t give the workers at HP enough credit.  I see Fiorina as a detailed person but not a visionary!  And to be the leader you must have both!

When watching this last debate with Carly Fiorina, I was puzzled when she started telling us how she was going to build up the military and how many platoons, tanks, missiles, etc.,  she was  going to put in place.  I thought – now how does she know that being a civilian?  Then we found out she was a worker on the John McCain’s campaign stump and now it was time for McCain to help her by advising her.  Folks, I don’t want to back anyone who is being helped by McCain – this man is an Elite Republican who is working with Obama.  He gives Ted Cruz a fit every chance he gets.  When McCain called the American people “crazies” that sunk his boat with me.  In my book of references he comes across as the “Manchurian candidate.”

The next part was when she was talking about the planned parenthood debacle, she did not tell the truth – there was no baby kicking on any video that I ever saw.  Even as bad as it was she did not tell the truth.  She mislead the American people.  She is being backed by the Elite Republicans and they are  no better than the Democrat Socialists/Musliims.

So strike her off my list.  She doesn’t float my boat!

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Fact Check: Carly Fiorina’s latest defense of her HP track record has holes

by
Stephen Gandel

September 22, 2015

Politician Carly Fiorina during an interview with host Jimmy Fallon on September 21, 2015.

Carly Fiorina said on The Tonight Show that her track record at HP included improving market share. But that’s not true.

Carly Fiorina’s latest defense of her track record at Hewlett Packard doesn’t quite add up.

Monday night, on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the GOP Presidential hopeful stepped up her effort to paint her time at the top of one of the nation’s largest technology companies as a success. Fallon remarked that her rise from a secretary at a small real estate company to the head of HP ( HPQ -2.80% ) was remarkable, but he also mentioned critics who said she “kind of left the company in disarray.” Clearly Fiorina’s time at the top of HP is complicated, and as she has risen in the polls, so too has the scrutiny of the job she did.
HP’s stock price significantly underperformed rivals during Fiorina’s time as CEO, and she was eventually fired in 2005, because the merger she pushed through with Compaq was considered a failure at the time. But on other measures like revenue and cash flow growth, HP under Fiorina seems to have done better—though still not that much better than rivals. At least one HP board member from the time, Tom Perkins, now says firing Fiorina was a mistake.

On Monday night, Fiorina told Fallon that HP was a troubled company when she took over as CEO, and she was “hired to save it.” And she said she did, turning around the company’s market share problems. “We went from losing market share to gaining it. By the time I left, we were the leader in every market segment, every product category,” Fiorina told Fallon.

But even Fiorina’s claims about market share don’t really back up her claim that she was a great CEO. By the time Fiorina left HP, the company was not the “leader in every market segment, every product category.” It wasn’t actually even the leader in personal computers, which was at the heart of the acquisition of Compaq, and one of the company’s largest business segments.

What is true is that when Fiorina showed up, HP was a laggard in the PC computer market, ranking fourth behind Dell, IBM ( IBM -1.71% ) , and Compaq, which at the time was the leader. But HP’s market share had been consistently growing, not shrinking. HP did shoot up to No. 1 in the PC market in 2001, but that was following the merger with Compaq, which before the deal had 13% of the PC market to HP’s 7%.

But then the year after the merger, HP’s PC market share dropped to just over 14%, not much more than Compaq had alone. And by 2003, HP had slumped to No. 2, trailing Dell. In her final full year at the company, Fiorina’s HP trailed Dell by almost two percentage points in the PC market.

HP did eventually regain the lead in the PC market, but it didn’t happen until the final quarter of 2006, nearly two years after Fiorina had left HP. And even by then, it was starting to look like a Pyrrhic victory. The PC market, the one Fiorina was in part chasing with the merger with Compaq, was already becoming vastly less profitable than it used to be.

It’s not really clear how much being a good CEO is a clear indication of whether one will be a good president. But it is a lynchpin of Fiorina’s campaign, and she is not afraid to bring it up. If she wants to really prove her time at HP was a success, however, Carly Fiorina is going to have to come up with a much better defense.

Still need a Margaret Thatcher and Fiorina nor Clinton’s feet fit those shoes!

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