What if HP had hired a college dropout instead of Carly Fiorina

Having never studied business I find it an interesting subject. What is a business or a large corporation but a giant design project in progress. You have all these different elements to combine and exploit effectively. For instance all graphic designers have access to the same elements, fonts, colours, photographs and software and access to the same marketplace. Others are more successful in being able to use these same elements properly.

I look at HP as a design project undertaken by Carly Fiorina who has impressive credentials on paper but wasn't able to deliver. This makes me wonder what if HP had hired a college dropout, someone who loved technology. Do you they the would have done a better job? Someone who realized that technology was changing at such a rapid pace it made no sense to build computers and store them in a warehouse like Compaq had done. Someone who realized that the Wal-Mart generation has been spoiled by cheap prices. Wait a minute if they did that then they would have another Michael Dell.

Some of Carly Fiorina's Seven Deadly Sins by Rich Karlgaard