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It sounded like it was more of a presentation issue. He doesn't present well. They didn't say anything about not liking his ideas. "He's just not CEO material"
by jharrison 15y ago
It sounded like it was more of a presentation issue. He doesn't present well. They didn't say anything about not liking his ideas. "He's just not CEO material" is what I got out of the article.
- jfruh 15y agoAren't "presentation issues" about the easiest thing they could have assessed in advance before they hired him? It's not like he was some anonymous behind-the-scenes VP somewhere -- he was the CEO of a major company in their space. Of course, if you're right, this fits in nicely with the NY Times' article from this morning, which basically said that the HP board hired Apotheker without meeting him, because the board members all couldn't stand each other and didn't want hang out together long enough to vet him. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-chief-without-meeting-him.html http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/22/business/voting-to-hire-a-... These people, it's amazing.