Former HP CEO Fiorina to Write Memoir
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Carly Fiorina (search), the ousted CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and once the most powerful woman in business, who went from secretary to head of the world's No. 2 computer maker, is writing a book.
Fiorina's as-yet-untitled memoir will include her views on what makes a leader, how women can thrive in business and how technology will continue to reshape our world, said the Portfolio imprint at publisher Penguin Group (USA) Inc.
She left Hewlett-Packard, which she led between 1999 and 2005, in February after disagreeing with the board over how to run the company and failing to produce promised results.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"This is the first time that readers will be able to meet the real Carly Fiorina — how she thinks, what she believes, what she's experienced and what she's learned," said Adrian Zackheim, founder and publisher of Portfolio.
Before HP, Fiorina spent nearly 20 years at AT&T (T) and Lucent Technologies (LU), where she held a number of senior leadership roles and directed Lucent's initial public offering and subsequent spin-off from AT&T.
She worked briefly as a secretary at the Palo Alto, Calif.-based company she would ultimately lead when she was an undergraduate student at nearby Stanford University, from which she graduated.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}World rights were bought by Zackheim from Williams & Connolly, which represented Fiorina, Portfolio said, adding that it expects to publish the book in the fall of 2006.