"In his five years at H.P., every metric Wall Street uses to judge companies had gone in only one direction: up." And this is the problem. Cutting jobs/salarie

"In his five years at H.P., every metric Wall Street uses to judge companies had gone in only one direction: up." And this is the problem. Cutting jobs/salaries/benefits/projects leads to the type of share-bumping profit and cost-cutting figures that Wall Street types love, all while destroying the culture of a company and its chance of long term success.