Tough Choices: A Memoir by Carly Fiorina
This memoir is mainly focused on Carly Fiorina’s experience as a CEO of Hewlett-Packard company, and her business life seems to begin when she worked as a receptionist at the Marcus & Millichap after she dropped out of law school. She described her difficulties as a woman realistically and vividly. Unlike these days, working women in the 80s and 90s, especially women working at a company, might have to make much more effort to prove their abilities than women these days. I couldn’t fully grasp the meanings of many business and technical terms and abbreviations in this book. (Mentioned many companies and people’s names were quite unfamiliar to me, as I don’t have background knowledge on IT business due to my limited work experience and interest.) She tried to convey what she valued or prioritized, and what she actually did in HP as a CEO. I guess she must have devoted all her energy, worked extremely hard, and been at a peak of her business career in HP. From my point of v...