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Meg Whitman Gets Credit for Her Job But Not Her Candor
She did the job as well as anyone could until it came to talking about staying.
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There are two takeaways from the tenure of Meg Whitman, the longtime technology executive who said Tuesday that she plans to step down as CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co.
One, Whitman doesn't seem to have been entirely forthcoming about her willingness to stay in her job. And two, she was dealt a bad hand at a company destined for the scrap heap and did as well as anyone could in preventing that outcome.