Outsource the CEO next time

The Sacramento Bee ^ | Sunday, February 15, 2004 | Rich Heintz

[1rudeboy]

Then I'll just follow your advice and set my sights as low as possible.

[the invisib1e hand]

My kids want to study engineering.

that would be a shame if they really loved engineering, and you pushed them into plumbing just for the money.

why don't you encourage them to study engineering, learn how to run a business, start one, employ people, administer valuable resources, and then they can decided who or what to outsource?

[the invisib1e hand]

I think I smell a manager of some stripe that THINKS he's immune.

you might smell someone who's been there and done that.

[Print]

It might be a better article if Ms. Fiorina's name was spelled correctly. Making a fundamental spelling mistake twenty times tends to undermine an author's credibility.

True.

[Cronos]

Perhaps it's about time we expaned the US to take in more states? Mexico, the Phillipines, the UK, Australia?

[Nick Danger]

There are arguments to be made against outsourcing, but I wonder if Free Republic is the right place to bring the ones that turn on painting profit as evil, fomenting hate-the-rich class warfare, and calling for government intervention to control every corporate hiring decision.

Wouldn't this article be more at home if it was posted to DU?

Hewlett Packard was once widely known for some research they had done which showed that the single biggest factor affecting a new product's success was whether it got there first. Has Carly seen that study? Does she know what she's giving up to save a few bucks on salaries? When a product that has $20 or $30 million invested in its development falls on its butt because HP got there 6 months behind Sony, what is she going to tell the board? That she saved $5 million by outsourcing the software to India?

Anyone who is in a time-to-market business should forget all about outsourcing. You don't want to introduce communication difficulties into a project where time is money.