HPE
Elliott Is Inside HPE. We All Know What Happens Next.
The hidden ways activist investors destroy innovation, and what CEOs, Boards, and shareholders can do about it.
Shell Had Six Years to Prepare. I Had Four Months.
Outstanding leaders under pressure aren't making great decisions. They're executing decisions they already made. The difference is preparation. And most leaders skip it.
How I Mindjacked Boards for a Living
A Confession from Inside the Consulting Industrial Complex
HP Won Innovation Awards. Then Killed What Made It True.
Three years on the Most Innovative list. Thirteen years absent. Here's what changed—and what it proves about causation.
The WSJ Got Quarterly Reporting Wrong: A Corporate Executive's Response
Why James Mackintosh's defense of quarterly reporting ignores what actually happens in corporate boardrooms.
Being Thrown Under The Bus: The Dilemma of Blame
This last week, I got pulled back into a Hewlett-Packard Enterprise ($HPE) news cycle. Last Thursday, the UK courts ruled there was fraud by Autonomy, their CEO and CFO related to its acquisition by HPE. When HPE wrote down $8.8 billion against the acquisition in 2012, HPE executive leadership got b
