http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/sexism-or-lack-of-execution-rumbles-continue-in-greenes-wake/ A SearchStorage.com blog. Fri, 27 Nov 2009 02:49:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/storage-soup/sexism-or-lack-of-execution-rumbles-continue-in-greenes-wake/#comment-7191 Diane Greene No Longer at VMware — SandyBox Wed, 16 Jul 2008 08:21:23 +0000 http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/15/sexism-or-lack-of-execution-rumbles-continue-in-greenes-wake/#comment-7191 [...] During that same class session, some one raised the question of her relationship with Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC. At least back then she was politically savvy enough to say Tucci and her are cool and he’s leaving VMware alone to do its thing i.e. she told us nothing about the real situation. Now, it looks like some thing was brewing all along - Fair or not, given EMC’s background, when a female CEO gets canned from the wildly successful company she founded and helped steer to its “unsatisfactory” 49% growth, and her “inexperience” and “lack of execution” are cited as the reasons, the tongues are going to wag. [...] [...] During that same class session, some one raised the question of her relationship with Joe Tucci, CEO of EMC. At least back then she was politically savvy enough to say Tucci and her are cool and he’s leaving VMware alone to do its thing i.e. she told us nothing about the real situation. Now, it looks like some thing was brewing all along - Fair or not, given EMC’s background, when a female CEO gets canned from the wildly successful company she founded and helped steer to its “unsatisfactory” 49% growth, and her “inexperience” and “lack of execution” are cited as the reasons, the tongues are going to wag. [...]

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