Rule #21 Do Not Give Massive Bonuses for Scandalous Behaviour

Big bonus despite HP scandal for Mark Hurd.

Just like giving Patricia Dunn an award just after she was exposed for having acted in incredibly unethical behaviour. I don't think I own anything by HP and I don't really see that changing, ever. A company that rewards its execs in the midst of scandal isn't a company I will have anything to do with.

Stranger is that HP declined to comment on the bonus, instead serving up Viet Dinh, a Georgetown University law professor and attorney for former HP board member Tom Perkins, who resigned last year after learning that the company's investigators had surreptitiously accessed his phone records. That's right, HP didn't want to go on record so they had a professor and lawyer speak for them. What did he say? Hurd was CEO, not the Chairman of the Board.

Nice try but that'll fly about as well as a turd with feathers stuck in it.

Rule #21 is Don't Give Out Bonuses While Being Investigated for Scandals

Rule #2 Don't Do What HP Has Done

A perusal of the news turns up exactly what not to do in the case of HP's spying on their board of directors, the resultant resignations and half-assedery that's trying to placate a rather startled and confused corporation.

Rule #2 is Don't spy on your own board of directors, don't pretext journalists and do not get defiant in the face of the scrutiny, you will only come off looking stupid, ineffective and out-of-touch.

Don't be like HP.