Sexton promoted to VP Stu. Affairs w/ new title Exec Director, Boatright Deputy AD

[SHOCKvalue]

I do not hold a low opinion of him.
I do not hold a personal bias against him.
If you believe he is university president material, I am fine with your belief.
If you believe he is in Mr. Bardo's succession plan for his office, I am fine with your belief.
Ms. Fiorina was never a Peter Principle candidate.

Sometimes I feel like Ralphie with his Ovaltine Secret Decoder Ring on A Christmas Story when I read your posts.

[SHOCKvalue]

I'm not on mobile so I can give this post the dignity it deserves.

If I'm PJB (President John Bardo -- not Peanut Jelly Butter) and I sit down with ADES (Athletic Director Eric Sexton), the conversation regarding HCJA (Head Coach Jody Adams) goes something like ...

PJB says, "Eric! How ya been? I heard on Shockernet that Jody Adams is pissing a bunch of our student-athletes off. What do you make of that?"

ADES replies, "Well, I don't know I was out doin' my 'thang' to raise funds for Coach Marshall. Isn't @ShockerFever: a card?"

PJB responds, "Brilliant! Yes, ShockerFever's a riot, but let's not get sidetracked on this very important conversation. Do you think you can raise another $500,000 per year if Gregg wins the championship next year?"

ADES enthusiastically replies, "You bet I can! Already working those channels."

PJB says, "Excellent Eric. Just excellent. I'm glad you realize that he really is the driving force behind making my ambitious plans to build a world class business and tech center a reality.

Screw Jody. Let your peon -- what's his name? -- Boobright deal with her!"

[ADES: nyuck nyuck nyuck]

PJB continues, "Eric, soon we will move into Phase 2 of replacing the entire Board of Regents with humanoid robots that do our bidding. And to think that they will be constructed in the underground labs of the very tech center the Board so willingly approved!"

[Both: muuhahaha MUhhhAahaha MUHAHAHAHA]

"Bernadette will never see what hit her. One day she's the Chancellor of KU. The next day she's the janitor for Wichita University at Lawrence campus."

ADES, walking out of the room, replies "Using our athletic purchases of Gatorade as a microchip fabrication coolant was absolutely brilliant, John. Completely under the radar. Catch ya later."

You need like a Nobel Prize for Mobile Phone Posting for that. Holy crap what a lot of work on a phone.

[Kung Wu]

Please recall Carly Fiorina began her career as an entry level secretary and her work career culminated with her holding the position of CEO of the largest tech company in the world.

It has nothing to do with this discussion, but in my opinion Carly was a terrible CEO and in way over her head. She was also awful at Lucent. I think she's a good woman, but she has not proven herself to be able to lead at the elite echelon level.

[Kung Wu]

You need like a Nobel Prize for Mobile Phone Posting for that. Holy crap what a lot of work on a phone.

I'm NOT on mobile. NOT. :) Previously I was on mobile so I couldn't give you a nice long jackass response. I could only give you something about an empty glass containing tasty beverages.

[Kung Wu]

Kung, I love your stuff but I can't let that one go without the movie clip reaction that flashed through my head...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uoghPts44Ng

LMAO

[Shocker1976]

I do not hold a low opinion of him.
I do not hold a personal bias against him.
If you believe he is university president material, I am fine with your belief.
If you believe he is in Mr. Bardo's succession plan for his office, I am fine with your belief.
Ms. Fiorina was never a Peter Principle candidate.

What does your executive management experience inform regards an individual who reverts to avoidance and deflection when asked to explain/defend an unequivocal statement he has made? Does recant and apologize come to mind?

One final question for you RdR; given your statement that you do not hold a low opinion or personal bias regards Dr. Sexton, why post an inference that Dr. Sexton is an example of the Peter Principle?

[shockmonster]

It has nothing to do with this discussion, but in my opinion Carly was a terrible CEO and in way over her head. She was also awful at Lucent. I think she's a good woman, but she has not proven herself to be able to lead at the elite echelon level.

That could be said of the majority of what is considered higher echelon leadership. They aren't worth the huge millions of dollars a year to be hired for a few years. But that is the Capitalistic way.

[Shocker1976]

It has nothing to do with this discussion, but in my opinion Carly was a terrible CEO and in way over her head. She was also awful at Lucent. I think she's a good woman, but she has not proven herself to be able to lead at the elite echelon level.

I have some knowledge in this area as my wife was a very early Compaq employee and I held a Senior Executive Management position with a Silicon Valley company when Carly Fiorina assumed command of HP. Consequently, I am curious as to what specific management deficiencies Carly exhibited at Lucent and HP that resulted in you forming such a low opinion of her?

[1979Shocker]

I'm starting to wonder if you would argue that a completely empty glass is actually half full. :)

No, he would have argued that it was complete full.....of air.

[Kung Wu]

I have some knowledge in this area as my wife was a very early Compaq employee and I held a Senior Executive Management position with a Silicon Valley company when Carly Fiorina assumed command of HP. Consequently, I am curious as to what specific management deficiencies Carly exhibited at Lucent and HP that resulted in you forming such a low opinion of her?

Well you are an insider and will obviously have a much better perspective (which I value so please share!), but my recollection is that she was a hatchet women that slashed the crap out of research budgets at both Lucent (possibly ultimately leading to the destruction of Bell Labs) and also at HP. The net effect is that both companies lost a tremendous number of some of the brightest scientists and inventors in the world. I was also kind of in disbelief when I first learned that HP acquired Compaq. Ouch.

But I am definitely interested to hear your perspective, especially with your wife's inside track.

[shoxlax]

Only on Shockernet could this discussion turn to Carly Fiorina

[Kung Wu]

Well you are an insider and will obviously have a much better perspective (which I value so please share!), but my recollection is that she was a hatchet women that slashed the crap out of research budgets at both Lucent (possibly ultimately leading to the destruction of Bell Labs) and also at HP. The net effect is that both companies lost a tremendous number of some of the brightest scientists and inventors in the world. I was also kind of in disbelief when I first learned that HP acquired Compaq. Ouch.

But I am definitely interested to hear your perspective, especially with your wife's inside track.

Actually, so that we don't derail the thread, shoot me a PM if you don't mind.

[Aargh]

I have a cousin who was a Sr. Tech at HP. His position was eliminated. He was then offered to come back as a Temp with no benefits at half his previouds pay scale. Stockholders love that kind of stuff because it drives the bottom line. In HP's case it disguised that they were losing the market share battle.

Once the employee morale items hit the fan, the temporay nature of bottom line improvements from pissing off employees may have been a significant factor in driving HP/Compaq behind Dell in the PC market.

HP/Compaq could have and definitely should have absolutely dominated the PC market.

Then Steve Jobs told the world that they could do everything they wanted to do with a computer and have either a telephone or a music player to go along with that, but they didn't need a computer and they could take that technology with them in a convenient package.

[Ricardo del Rio]

What does your executive management experience inform regards an individual who reverts to avoidance and deflection when asked to explain/defend an unequivocal statement he has made? Does recant and apologize come to mind?

One final question for you RdR; given your statement that you do not hold a low opinion or personal bias regards Dr. Sexton, why post an inference that Dr. Sexton is an example of the Peter Principle?

Frankly, I have no idea what you are talking about. And no, recant and apologize does not come to mind.

Regarding your Peter Principle question, I have to reread my statement and report back to you.

[Ricardo del Rio]

One final question for you RdR; given your statement that you do not hold a low opinion or personal bias regards Dr. Sexton, why post an inference that Dr. Sexton is an example of the Peter Principle?

I have reviewed my posts in this thread and I cannot find the inference that you referenced above.

Find it for me and I will comment.

Thanks in advance.