http://www.amazon.com/Tough-Choices-Memoir-Carly-Fiorina/dp/159184133X
For some reason, I have admired Carly Fiorina and publicly so on my peer networking group – Eco_Fin. I somehow felt that this lady had reached the upper echelons of a top US technology enterprise (to be the CEO of HP) by sheer guts and determination.
There are quite a few lady CEO’s who I admire who have made it big.
- Indira Nooyi – Chairman and CEO, Pepsico (NYSE: PEP)
- Carly Fiorina – ex. Chairman and CEO , Hewlett Packard company (NYSE: HPQ)
There was another book of Carly’s titled “Perfect enough” and the reinvention of Hewlett Packard that I had purchased and read up way back in 2003. It was good and spoke a lot of the aggressive and the controversies/hostilities surrounding the merger of HP and Compaq in 2002.
http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Enough-Fiorina-Reinvention-Hewlett/dp/1591840031/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-7956418-4984732?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1173590442&sr=1-1
I have so far not got to read the following books:
- The HP way
- The Toyota way
I will do so shortly.
I am still reading up this book but she highlights the difficulties of her earlier years while at AT&T (American telephone and telegraph – NYSE: ATT), how Lucent technologies (NYSE: LU) was spun off, how the red splash logo of Lucent was conceived, how the baby bells were born etc.
I did not know that she did an advanced management programme at Massachusetts institute of technology (MIT), Boston, MA for an year while taking a sabbatical from AT&T.
Tell us what you think!