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...Carly Fiorina may have been the most powerful woman in business, but she didn't see herself that way. "I don't think of myself, nor do I appreciate being characterized, as a woman CEO," she told TIME in 2002. But she was one of just eight female CEOs of a FORTUNE 500 company, and so her performance at HP drew keen attention. As it turns out, Fiorina took the same risks as her male counterparts, made the same mistakes--and met the same fate. "This is not about gender. It's really about business," says Deborah Soon of Catalyst...
...INDICATORS Printer Jammed Shares in Hewlett-Packard slid after third-quarter net earnings of $586 million came in below market expectations. Citing poor performance at the computer maker's business server and storage unit, CEO Carly Fiorina promptly fired three executives...
Maybe we're just busy living our lives. A new book by the Stanford political scientist Morris Fiorina, Culture War? The Myth of a Polarized America, argues that a closely divided nation isn't necessarily a deeply divided nation. Fiorina cites polling data that show minuscule differences between red-and blue-state voters on most issues (for example: 64% of blues and 62% of reds believe corporations have too much power). Even on ballistic issues like abortion, the "never" and "always" believers tend to be a distinct minority; the vast American middle says, reluctantly, "sometimes." And while gay marriage...
There is a problem with Fiorina's data, though. Most were collected before Sept. 11, 2001. "In 2000, average voters were having a hard time telling the difference between the presidential candidates on most issues," says Kohut. "That's not the case this year. There are real anxieties, real differences on the big issues--the war and the economy. The cultural issues are less important now. The partisan differences between the political activists are the greatest I've ever seen." But again, what about the rest of us? "If one-third of the public are activists, another third are leaners...
Affected or infected? Fiorina believes the public debate has been hijacked by political "purists"--like the abortion-rights activists at NARAL and the gun lovers at the N.R.A.--who find that taking the most extreme positions is the most efficacious way to solicit money, and also by the corruption of journalism by partisan blowhards like Moore and Limbaugh. And he has a point. In a world where Islamist terrorism and globalization-induced economic anxiety were distant clouds, single-issue fanatics had a clear field to pollute the public square. Scream journalism--Crossfire, Hannity and Colmes, the various "gangs" and "groups...