{"id":698,"date":"2006-09-13T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2006-09-13T13:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"tag:www.computerworld.com:\/\/f35e24f84527dd3802adbfdd6f1dcafa"},"modified":"2006-09-13T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2006-09-13T13:00:17","slug":"what-hp-should-have-dunn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=698","title":{"rendered":"What HP should have Dunn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been criticized on my post yesterday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3448\">HP head does the decent thing<\/a>) for not calling what has happened at HP 'incompetence'. <\/p>\n<p>James Earl, who commented this fact, has some other strong opinions on what should have happened, and I don't in any way disagree with him. <\/p>\n<p>Incompetence is not the right word though; Incompetence implies that HP don't have the skills to do the job properly. <\/p>\n<p>What the chairwoman did here was not incompetent, it was malicious, AFAIK illegal, and well executed, if , as we'll all agree, very badly thought out. What the board did when they found out was not incompetent either, it was instead the comparatively typical response for a group of people who's responsibility is to the shareholders and the company. As I mentioned yesterday, those shareholders hold a significant amount of sway in any company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=HD08F9\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=HD08F9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/21814471\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been criticized on my post yesterday (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/3448\">HP head does the decent thing<\/a>) for not calling what has happened at HP &#8216;incompetence&#8217;. <\/p>\n<p>James Earl, who commented this fact, has some other strong opinions on what should have happened, and I don&#8217;t in any way disagree with him. <\/p>\n<p>Incompetence is not the right word though; Incompetence implies that HP don&#8217;t have the skills to do the job properly. <\/p>\n<p>What the chairwoman did here was not incompetent, it was malicious, AFAIK illegal, and well executed, if , as we&#8217;ll all agree, very badly thought out. What the board did when they found out was not incompetent either, it was instead the comparatively typical response for a group of people who&#8217;s responsibility is to the shareholders and the company. As I mentioned yesterday, those shareholders hold a significant amount of sway in any company.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=HD08F9\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=HD08F9\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/21814471\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}