XPost: alt.folklore.computers   
   From: tnp@invalid.invalid   
      
   On 29/12/2025 23:40, John Ames wrote:   
   > You can see this again and again in corporate Big Tech; look at, for   
   > example, Carly Fiorina, who pulled a "turnaround" with Lucent back in   
   > the late '90s - early '00s which was to a significant extent based in   
   > shady financial games and ultimately gutted the company; 130,000 people   
   > lost their jobs as a result, and Fiorina...went on to run the show at   
   > HP and was all geared up to put*them*  in the toilet as well before   
   > being forced out, but ultimately got her comeuppance by...um, losing   
   > her bid for the GOP nomination in 2016 and having to fall back on being   
   > incredibly wealthy and getting public-speaking engagements.   
   >   
   +1.   
      
   Th HP of my youth were the no 1 instrumentation engineers.  Nary a hint   
   of consumer products.   
      
      
   > The bill always comes due eventually - but a certain class of people   
   > have gotten*real*  good at making sure someone else is left holding the   
   > bag when it does.   
      
   A company that is 'steady state' - a cash cow essentially - is already   
   where it needs to be. It needs no strategic management.   
      
   Only if its market is set to disappear does it need to stir itself.   
      
      
      
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