HP's Meg Whitman Setting New Lows in CEO Incompetence

If Whitman thinks she can get 320,000 HP employees across six divisions on the same page, she's certifiably insane.

As David Faber noted, HP has 2,100 different SKUs of laser printers.

The fact that she proceeds with any of this only highlights how out of touch she is with reality.

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple, the first thing he did was slash the product line down to what would evolve into a handful of winners. Whitman needs to do something similar and probably more drastic at HP.

And she needs to do it with far fewer cooks in the kitchen, alongside innovators who can come up with something other than a retool of what hasn't been working for the last several years.

At the time of publication, the author was long FB.

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Rocco Pendola is a private investor with nearly 20 years experience in various forms of media, ranging from radio to print. His work has appeared in academic journals as well as dozens of online and offline publications. He uses his broad experience to help inform his coverage of the stock market, primarily in the technology, Internet and new media spaces. He has taken a long-term approach to investing, focusing on dividend-paying stocks, since he opened his first account as a teenager. Pendola, 37, is based in Santa Monica, Calif., where he lives with his wife and child.

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