For the past few years admirers of Hewlett Packard as envisioned by the two founders, William Hewlett And David Packard, have had to endure so much unseemly tumult at the top. This is definitely not the founder’s enlightened HP Way. The following Dilbert cartoon catches the madness:
But the humor is truly black.
Is the modern Wired era in an Endemic ADD state where there is simply no time for wisdom and considered judgement? David Packard, the management side of the impressive duo must be asking Peter Drucker how his concern for management and succession got so sorrily put astray.