US management leadership: Carly Fiorina and her influence in the new HP

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The company Hewlett Packard was created in Palo Alto by two engineers, Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard in the year 1939. This project was developed right after the Second World War, by the formulation of scientific applications for the computer and printer domains. Just after its creation, HP was well known for the quality and reliability of its products and the new innovative ideas that were displayed by their brands. The charisma of the two founders has engendered a high company culture based on the humanism, the HP way. The culture, notoriety and the strong image of the brand was realized by adopting a paternalistic way of management where the employees hold a central position in the company and a consensus was always obtained in order to make decisions. This working method and culture was integrated in the company before the arrival of Carly Fiorina in 1999. This 46 years old women, who has built her career in the telecoms, became the first woman CEO and more importantly the first CEO who was recruited outside the HP Company.

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[...] Marc Jourdan representing CFDT at the central committee of company To achieve its goal, Carly Fiorina thus applied an autocratic leadership while calling in question famous HP Way”. Thanks to these different leadership skills, Carly Fiorina has engendered one of the most important changing in the history of HP. These results were clearly due to her ability to convince employees, shareholders of this fusion. That's why this concrete example is a sign of success engender by a leader Conclusion While arriving to HP, Carly Fiorina modified the strategy of the company like its culture. [...]

[...] In spite of the defection of the founders families, and whereas many commentators predicted his failure, she convinced the shareholders to give to him their support thanks to a will without fault. Leadership of Carly Fiorina All the companies which succeed have a joint point: capacity with directing their teams well. The leadership is a talent essential with the success on all the levels of the company. On the basis of theoretical concept, we will analyze the leadership of Carly Fiorina within HP. The leadership is defined as art to bring, persuade, direct people to voluntarily achieve a task and even with enthusiasm. [...]

[...] Political orientation? Republican conservatism Education - License in medieval history and philosophy at the University of Stanford, - A cash flow diploma in direction of the businesses at the University of Maryland - Master of science to M.I.T. school of Sloan. Experiment Professional Secretary in the department forwarding at Hewlett-Packard ( ) as seasonal, Receptionist at Marcus & Millichap (real estate agents), it finds himself at the end of three months important analyst of project, Teaching English in Italy during two years after having followed its first husband, Post with responsibility at the giant for AT&T telecommunication, Director of one of divisions in more strong growth of Lucent (during separation AT&T and Lucent), that of the service providers, equipped with a turnover of some 20 billion dollars. [...]

[...] Despite all the problems Carly Fiorina will win its project in 2002, with the realization off the new brand HP Compaq. That' s why today we are going to try to analyze the influence of Carly Fiorina in the HP brand in order to understand her ability to renewal the brand and its changing with the fusion with Compaq thanks to her leadership skills, before her departure in off the brand; the 9 February 2005 Carly FIORINA Biography Cara Carleton Sneed Old: 47 years Born in: Austin (Texas) Her religion? [...]

[...] Aptitudes of the leader Any leadership requires taking into account the personal dimension of the leader. It consists of three types of aptitudes: vision, confidence, Adhesion. Vision: capacity to stimulate the others, to push them towards an enthralling vision of the future. It projects a future situation which does not exist yet and existed forever before. Adhesion: However to cause a vision is not enough, it is also necessary, to exert an influence, to render comprehensible the goal to reach with the members of the organization. Carly Fiorina actually had qualities of visionary. [...]