As of Monday, Carly Fiorina was tied for third in popularity among candidates for the Republican presidential nomination. I had never heard anyone I know say a good word about Fiorina. (It’s a sign of how high the walls rise in the silos so many of us live in.) Nor had I read a line of praise for her that went beyond nodding respect for her gumption. She can look Donald Trump in the eye and put him in his place—which isn’t all we’re looking for in a president. But last week I drove out to Downers Grove for a friend’s book signing, and in this arty milieu somebody mentioned that she used to work for Hewlett Packard.
HP created i-communities in Kuppam, India, and Mogalakwena, South Africa, which Gifford visited at one point. She remembers standing in the back of HP’s auditorium on more than one occasion listening to Fiorina firing up the troops with stories of successes on the ground—stories that Gifford had told Fiorina herself. She remembers reading memos from Fiorina to her boss praising the EMS team’s work.
