Fast Chat: Fiorina's 'Choices'

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By Newsweek Editors

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Carly Fiorina says she wrote her memoir, "Tough Choices," to share lessons from her 25 years in business, first at AT&T and then as CEO of Hewlett-Packard--not to settle scores. But the HP board members who ousted her in 2005 have made headlines of their own; former HP chairman Patricia Dunn was indicted last week by the California attorney general on charges of wire fraud and conspiracy. Fiorina talked to Brad Stone.

I'm sad for the company and shocked at the things that appear to have been done. My third reaction is that it lifts the veil on the dysfunction that existed in the boardroom at the end of my tenure.

I asked direct questions and I expected direct answers. And when it was clear that I was not getting direct answers, my next step was to ask our outside counsel to have a conversation with each one of them. Our outside counsel gave a report to everyone in the boardroom and said there were clearly at least two people who talked to the press; only one confessed, Tom Perkins. The reality is that everyone knew [Keyworth] had leaked and I was planning to do something about it, but they did something about me first!

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