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Originally Posted by Txjake
Too bad for Cali that the prof 19 supporters actually came back on the 2nd and voted in the old, demented, Govenor Moonbeam  |
The Nutmeg, who spent $140,000,000 to try for a $174,000 job, would have been far far worse.
Some former eBay executives believe that her personality, and the way she conducted herself as CEO, are in fact a poor match for a brutal political job like being the governor of California.
“She's a pretty typical CEO, the kind who says jump and waits to see how high. She also doesn't look for input because she prefers to make snap decisions. She makes clear that she doesn't want meaningful input from other people,” said Reed Maltzman, onetime director of business development and strategy for eBay, who worked closely with Whitman in her early years at the company.
"Being politic is a skill, and quite useful in the realm of politics. Do I think she would be a good governor? Unequivocally no, ” said Maltzman. “People are afraid of her. I’m afraid to talk to you. The reason I am talking to you is that I love California."
“She makes up her mind on as little information as possible to get to the conclusion she wants,” said Brad Handler, eBay’s associate general counsel and director of law and public policy from 1997 until 2001. “She does not move off her position once she has staked it out. She does not tolerate dissent. She had no interest in government while I was there. She operates like one of the boys in an old boys’ network. She gets people who are extremely loyal to her, surrounds herself with that bubble, and that is the only information she wants to hear.”
A number of other employees who agreed to speak on the condition that they not be identified painted a similar picture.
One employee vividly recalls a late-2006 meeting about potential candidates for a job opening at eBay that left her physically afraid of Whitman.
“Are you f**king kidding me with this s**t?” the eBay chief executive screamed at the executive recruiters who were on the phone, the employee recalled. Whitman was angry because a candidate was not being brought in for an interview. “Do I have to f**king do everything myself? What is wrong with you people?”
The recruiters tried to placate their powerful client, explaining again that the executive was on the verge of accepting a new post elsewhere, according to the staffer. But Whitman would not be consoled. “I don’t want to hear these f***ing excuses. I don’t need this f**king s***.”
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The Bay Citizen is a SF publication,
http://www.baycitizen.org/governors-race/story/ebay-whitman-was-known-fierce-temper/