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Mark Hurd “Left HP in Great Shape” With “Winning Strategy”

How’s HP doing without former CEO Mark Hurd?

Just fine, apparently. Asked what sort of state Hurd left the company in during a media call Thursday afternoon, Cathie Lesjak, Hewlett Packard interim CEO, said it was good. “Mark Hurd left our organization with an extremely strong strategy and a talented management team that’s excited to execute on it,” she said. “He left HP in great shape. We think of ourselves as a team on a mission….When you have a winning strategy, I don’t see motivation to change it. It’s something we’ve been building for the last few years. It’s a well-thought-out strategy that’s working very well for us.”

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Moore’s Law means that more and more things can be done practically for free, if only it weren’t for those people who want to be paid. People are the flies in Moore’s Law’s ointment. When machines get incredibly cheap to run, people seem correspondingly expensive.

— From Jaron Lanier’s new book, “Who Owns the Future?” excerpted on Wired.com