Comments on: Throw The Book At HP Snoopers http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/09/18/throw-the-book-at-hp-snoopers/ The View From Connecticut's Northwest Corner Sat, 22 Nov 2008 06:26:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Yankee http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/09/18/throw-the-book-at-hp-snoopers/#comment-513 Yankee Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:32:41 +0000 http://tcextra.com/terrycowgill/2006/09/18/throw-the-book-at-hp-snoopers/#comment-513 The HP board has for quite some time been dysfunctional. While the board member who leaked can be criticized for breaking appropriate board confidentiality, that is generally a sign of a board in severe distress -- e.g. the American Express board back in the early 1990's when just before the shareholder/board revolt that threw out Jim Robinson for his surpassingly poor performance as CEO. So not much new there. The remarkable news is the reax of the leader of the board at HP -- Ms. Dunn -- in allegedly having private eyes trail people, tell lies to get phone records, and even consider planting spies in newsrooms, e.g. The Wall Street Journal San Francisco bureau. I suggest the entire baord hadn in their resignations and let the new CEO pick a new baord with some hold overs so that the company can focus on matters going forward, and let the law enforcement authorities sort out if crimes were committed by Ms Dunn et al. The HP board has for quite some time been dysfunctional. While the board member who leaked can be criticized for breaking appropriate board confidentiality, that is generally a sign of a board in severe distress — e.g. the American Express board back in the early 1990’s when just before the shareholder/board revolt that threw out Jim Robinson for his surpassingly poor performance as CEO. So not much new there.

The remarkable news is the reax of the leader of the board at HP — Ms. Dunn —
in allegedly having private eyes trail people, tell lies to get phone records, and even consider planting spies in newsrooms, e.g. The Wall Street Journal San Francisco bureau.

I suggest the entire baord hadn in their resignations and let the new CEO pick a new baord with some hold overs so that the company can focus on matters going forward, and let the law enforcement authorities sort out if crimes were committed by Ms Dunn et al.

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