| > If you watch the video closely the story is a little different from that. I watched it several times. Your summary doesn't seem to conflict with my post... However, it also doesn't seem to quite fit what they said. > The hired management forced Sandy out by threatening to quit en masse if she didn't leave. Don Valentine: "Seven vice presidents of Cisco Systems showed up in my office. We had a reasonably civil meeting in our conference room, the outcome of which was a very simple alternative: Either I relented -- and allowed the President to fire Sandy Lerner -- or they, all seven, would quit."
> I got the impression that Don Valentine actually wished she could have stayed. Sandy Lerner:
"Don's opening words to me, you know, the first time I ever met that man -- I wouldn't have known him from the man on the Moon -- were, "I hear you're everything that's wrong with Cisco." I didn't say they left in disgust, I said they sold their shares because of disgust with the way they were treated. |