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The culture at Hewlett-Packard, according to the Wall Street Journal, "is considered more of a consensus-building style." You know -- lots of meetings and executives who give time and consideration to each other's very important ideas. Meanwhile, the man who runs EDS, the tech-services outfit HP is buying for $13 billion, likes to fire people who don't agree with him. He's Ronald Rittenmeyer, "a high-control, results-oriented, very focused leader," a rival CEO told the Journal. Rittenmeyer, this CEO said, "is exactly what you want in a senior leader" -- whether HP colleagues like it or not.
Can mamby-pamby HP handle its new Texan?
12:20 PM on Wed May 14 2008
By Nicholas Carlson
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