Tough Choices: A Memoir [SIGNED FIRST EDITION]

Fiorina, Carly

Published by Portfolio / Penguin Group, New York, 2006

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Fine condition black boards with gold spine lettering, contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Acknowledgments; Prologue; Epilogue; and Index. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs. Signed and dated by the author with thin blue Sharpie on the blank first front free endpaper. "At age twenty-three, Carly Fiorina was a law school dropout who had no idea what to do with her life. Twenty-two years later, Fortune named her "The Most Powerful Woman in Business" and she was recruited to be chief executive officer of Hewlett-Packard - the first female CEO of a Fortune 20 company - with a mandate to shake things up. And then her story really gets interesting. For five and a half years, Fiorina led HP through major internal changes, the worst technology slump in decades, and the most controversial merger in high-tech history. Yet just as things were about to turn around, she was abruptly fired, making front-page news around the world. Fiorina has been the subject of endless debate and speculation. But she has never spoken publicly about crucial details of her time at HP, about the mysterious circumstances of her firing, or about many other aspects of her landmark career. Until now. In this extraordinarily candid memoir, she reveals the private person behind the public persona. She shares her triumphs and failures, her deepest fears and most painful confrontations. She shows us what it was like to be an ambitious young woman at stodgy old AT&T, and then a fast-track executive during the spin-off of Lucent Technologies. Above all, Fiorina describes how she drove the transformation of legendary but deeply troubled HP, in the face of fierce opposition. She was an outsider in every way imaginable - the first CEO not promoted from within; a woman leader in a male-dominated culture; a marketing expert in a company that worshiped engineers; an easterner surrounded by Silicon Valley lifers. As she writes, "Time had stood still for the people of HP; they did not know how to move forward without their founders. They were afraid of change; what if changing anything meant destroying everything?" One of Fiorina's big themes is that "in the end business isn't just about numbers; it's about people." This book goes far beyond the caricature of the "powerful woman executive" to show who she really is and what the rest of us - male or female, in business or not - can learn from the tough choices she made along the way." - from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. Seller Inventory # 003531

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tough Choices: A Memoir [SIGNED FIRST ...

Publisher: Portfolio / Penguin Group, New York

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: Fine

Signed: Signed by Author(s)

Edition: 1st Edition