{"id":185169,"date":"2011-09-22T18:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-22T23:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/22\/our-masters-of-the-universe-ceos-now-accountability-free\/"},"modified":"2011-09-22T18:23:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-22T23:23:00","slug":"our-masters-of-the-universe-ceos-now-accountability-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2011\/09\/22\/our-masters-of-the-universe-ceos-now-accountability-free\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Masters of the Universe CEOs, Now Accountability Free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because <a href=\"http:\/\/dealbook.nytimes.com\/2011\/09\/22\/in-whitman-h-p-gains-a-prolific-deal-maker\/\">Meg Whitman just became HP&#8217;s CEO<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whitman&#8217;s claim to fame is her sting at eBay, where she made <b>lots<\/b> of acquisitions, most of them ill-starred. (Skype and their contentious stake in Craiglslist anyone?)<\/p>\n<p>After HP&#8217;s disastrous acquisition of Compaq, and a string of management failures at the top, since their hiring of an outsider (Carly Fiorina), they have continued to bring in sales weasels for what is a technology driven company.<\/p>\n<p>You know, maybe the company wouldn&#8217;t be flailing if the people running it actually <b>understood<\/b> the company, as opposed to stroking their own egos.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously, there is no level of failure that will make one of the members of the CEO class unhirable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because Meg Whitman just became HP&#8217;s CEO. Whitman&#8217;s claim to fame is her sting at eBay, where she made lots of acquisitions, most of them ill-starred. (Skype and their contentious stake in Craiglslist anyone?) After HP&#8217;s disastrous acquisition of Compaq, and a string of management failures at the top, since their hiring of an outsider &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1005,970,975,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-corruption","category-employment","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}