CEO Meg Whitman
has revealed the – wait for it – five-year plan to turn around her diminished
Hewlett-Packard. And, yes, this is riveting. It reads like the synopsis of a
great movie, something like: Can a plummeting
tech giant return to its former place as the king of Silicone Valley? We’re
going to have to be patient and wait to see what happens, since the first signs
of growth are projected for 2015. Good luck Whitman: you’ve got your work cut
out for you!
Putting it rather
nicely, HP is a shell of its former self. But let’s forget, for a second, the
leadership that it is so badly in need of. Isn’t the resilience of its CEO -
who bounced back after enduring a $140 million dollar failed run at office -
what is truly needed to transform a company suffering its own massive decline?
Meg Whitman is optimistic of HP’s future. She sees the new HP. Believes in HP.
Looks like it’s the media, Wall Street and eventually, the world that have to
catch up.
Marissa Mayer, newly
minted CEO, has disclosed her game plan for the new Yahoo; and we are privy to
a glimpse, thanks to this article. In a nutshell, Mayer is looking to
capitalize on the company’s strengths and focus on moving faster. Verbatim, she
wants to “do more of what (they’re) good at and less of what (they’re) not”.
This actually sounds like a great personal mantra for success – good one,
Mayer!
#Shocked. Look whoYahoo just named as their CEO: Marissa Mayer, aka veteran exec at its major
rival (see: Google). Her task to exponentially turn things around for the
unstable web portal is daunting, to say the least. But her engineering
background and innovative foresight make her a smart choice to take on the
mercurial world of the Internet. Slightly off-topic, though: wonder how
Google’s Larry Page took the news? You know, sharing the same title with
someone who never got a shot on his senior leadership team, and all….
Marissa Mayer’s CV
has some serious muscle. Now she’s one of the youngest CEOs among the world’s
mega-companies; she’s officially reached the upper echelon of most powerful
women in her industry; and she’s already surpassed her contemporaries with a
coveted engineering background. Ironic enough, she won’t be entertaining a
‘women-in-tech’ dialogue anytime soon - probably to cool any notion that she’s here
to be saviour of womankind? Well, no ‘Saviour” title needed. But “Superwoman’?
Sure, why not!
