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AMD and the difference between men and women(2)

Last week, I raised the question of what role gender played in the quick, harsh firing of VMware founder and CEO Diane Greene. I felt the treatment was unusually rough, particularly for a place like Silicon Valley where even the biggest screw-ups never get fired, they just get promoted out of the company, given a nice pat on the back, and a heavy dose of corporate-pr spin to help soothe their bruised egos.

Kind of like AMD’s now-former CEO Hector Ruiz. Read the rest of this entry »

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