Perfect Enough: Carly Fiorina and the Reinvention of Hewlett-Packard

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Summary: A balanced story of a great leader
Review: This is an excellent account of a world class leader who showed courage and conviction in the face of incredible prejudice and adversity and is returning HP to greatness again. Anders tells a balanced story and avoids the sensationalism and cheap shots that other writers have taken at Ms. Fiorina. In this fine book, there are lessons to be learned for all who wish to lead.

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Summary: NOT Perfect Enough
Review: This unevenly written book reads like yet another vehicle for Fiorina's ongoing self-promotion efforts. After a skewed retelling of the 60 year history of leadership at HP, fully 25% of the book is consumed by a blow-by-blow account of the cat-fight leading up to shareholder approval of the aquisition of Compaq. She repeatedly blames HP's recent leadership ills on Lew Platt yet there is so much more that could have been written of Fiorina's view of the leadership at HP such as why the executives of struggling businesses (computers, services) were retained when their peers in the vastly successful printing businesses chose to "seek opportunities elsewhere". Don't waste your money on this one. Anders panders way too much to Fiorina's rhetoric.