Dear employer, in March last're writing about the resignation of Carly Fiorina as executive president of Hewlett-Packard (HP), a case that, as the author would say, was the chronicle of a Death foretold. Become five cents of how the thing was, you remember that was the first person outside of the HP went with a clear task: create a new strategy and implement it, and did, being instantiation of this change the purchase of Compaq, the computer maker. But doing so he faced some of the analysts do not see clearly the operation, and above all, an important part of the shareholders, led by Walter Hewlett, son of a founder, it objected, but finally won the Fiorina for very little. This development of events suggested that the resignation was due to a power struggle. However, the stock market also told her, and so, after a significant increase in the share price during the first months of Fiorina, the price went down even though the results were good - even when resigned, the results were quite good - because the market did not believe in his project, the market did not share the vision of the executive. I remember that in that letter you made the following reflection: "do not talk about business management, results, but we talk about the direction of future vision of where we go, and the market believes that this is not right where we are going . We talked about expectations. "

After nine months since his resignation has evolved from the contributions of 18.80 dollars per share, at the time, to almost $ 30 now, but I was surprised that his replacement, Mark Hurd says quote: "the same strategy, better execution" (http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches.html). But we had not been that the problem was the strategy? They had told analysts and some shareholders, who joined the business of PC's was a mistake? How can you maintain the same strategy that promoted the Carly Fiorina action increases its value by 67% in nine months? Dear colleague, I have an explanation for it which is summarized in one concept: misogyny. Perhaps the word is a bit harsh and perhaps use of the machismo would be aesthetically more correct, but the question is not aesthetic but moral.

According to some American writers, the American executive was tough as any, no tongue biting in his criticism, and judged severely, all of which are features that still are not accepted women. If we add that he had some traits of pride and arrogance, it seems clear that the candidate was pim pam pum by the American male business people. Now, it is true that there are a handful of senior executive men with the same profile? So why the sudden she analysts often while many of these executives are male object of admiration and criticism only when they fall? From this particular situation, the more generically I raise is: how come there are only eight top executives from Fortune 500 companies when the female population employed in the U.S. is around 64 million women, which represent 44% of the total population? The only answer I can think of is the aversion to women by the collective American business men.

Professor Manuel Castells in his book The Age of Information. Economy, Society and Culture. Vol. 2: The Power of Identity (1997) talks about the crisis of the patriarchal society as a result of one of the most significant social events of the twentieth century and was the liberation of women and not only the most advanced societies but with global dimension which has sotragrat and secular social foundations are shaken. It is a revolutionary change that has just begun. However, as noted by Professor Castells is a revolution with real victims, despite the gains made, as the reduction of legal discrimination between men and women or the labor market tends to equalization as women increase their education, interpersonal violence and psychological abuse is widespread, precisely because of the anger of men, individually and collectively, for their loss of power. He added that the perspective of the phenomenon of globalization and the threat to the patriarchal structures is one of the factors inducing stronger fundamentalist movements, which aim to maintain or restore the structures.

After nine months of the resignation of Carly Fiorina and watching the evolution of the action of HP in this period may already know that the fear of the male was causing the conflict. And at home? Dear employer, I leave for reflection.

Joseph Albet

Director DIRECTORS ALBET BCN