Fiorina recounts ‘tough choices’ as CEO of Hewlett-Packard

“Tough Choices: A Memoir”

by Carly Fiorina. Portfolio Publishers, $24.95 Hardcover, 300 Pages, October 2006, ISBN 159184133X.

During her tenure as chief executive of Hewlett-Packard, Carly Fiorina became a celebrity, her life scrutinized by the media. In “Tough Choices,” Fiorina understands that readers will want to know what happened at H-P, so she opens her story the day she was fired by the H-P board. But this book is more than a chronicle of her years running and leaving H-P. She begins her second chapter with: “How a story ends has much to do with how it begins, and so…