Last year when I addressed CPAC I actually talked about technology, and I talked with you about technology because it has fundamentally altered the pace of change for our communities and for our nation, because technology empowers the individual in truly historic ways, and technology also overwhelms large centralized bureaucracies (think our US Government), rendering them overtime increasingly incompetent even if they remain powerful; and of course, as we will here form at least one of our panelists, technology is also a tool to enforce transparency and accountability.

As I mentioned, today’s topic is really the state of business in America today, but I start with technology because it really sets the frame for everything we need to do, and it limits the time, in which we have to do it. I want to start if I may with two anecdotes.

Recently I was on a Sunday morning newscast, this week with George Stephanopoulos and I had the opportunity to debate Paul Krugman. In the course of this debate I made what I thought was a pretty basic statement, I said “you know, when we think about the health of the US economy we have to remember that a private sector job and a public sector job are not the same thing. A private sector job pays for itself, a private sector job creates other jobs. A public sector job is paid for by taxpayers.” I thought it was a pretty obvious statement, but later my staff was contacted by a reporter who felt he needed to fact check this statement. Seriously. It was interesting to me because it said how little so many people understand what makes the economy go, and I think one of our fundamental issues in this country is we have a lot of people setting policy that impacts our economy but they don’t understand how the economy actually works, and the impact of that policy.

My second anecdote is this, in a recent poll, 70 percent of small business owners said they that thought the federal government was hostile to them. Not neutral. Not negative. Hostile, to them. Remember that figure and remember that statement. Here we have the stock market achieving record highs day after day, after day. We have large companies in many, many industries reporting record profits and yet the state of our economy is not good.

We know these statistics, but they are worth repeating: There are 12.3 million who are still unemployed. One in six Americans lives in poverty and that burden falls most heavily on women, and their children. There are 48 million Americans living on food stamps. We have lost 6.4 million fulltime jobs in this country. Eight million Americans are working part time and they would rather work fulltime, and 10 million Americans have dropped out altogether. Why? Because small business and entrepreneurship is the engine of growth in this American economy.
We know, and you will hear inspiring stories from some of our panelists today. We know that every American get their first chance in a small business. We know that wave after wave of immigrants get their first handhold on that first rung of the American ladder by opening a small business. I started out in a little business with nine people, as a secretary and my story is not unique, it is the American story.

Whether it is the taqueria or the deli on the corner, the dry cleaner, the auto mechanic, the IT services business, the oil services business, small business is the engine of growth for this economy. Small businesses create over two thirds of the jobs in the country. Small and new businesses employ over half the people. I was privileged to be the Chief Executive of Hewlett Packard for six years and during that time we generated 11 patents a day, but do you know that small businesses innovate at a rate 11 times that of big businesses. In other words it is small business that are the engine of growth in our US economy; and today remembering all of those terrible statistics I just covered for you about the number of people unemployed, the number of jobs we have lost, Why? Because today fewer small businesses are forming and more small businesses are failing than at anytime in the last 40 years. Why is that? If you ask them they will tell you, its just too hard.

We have today a 27,000-page federal tax code. Hundreds of new federal regulations are enacted every single year and virtually never is a single regulation repealed. This represents a thicket of complexity that is simply impossible to navigate. A big business can navigate this, big labor can navigate big government, but small business cannot. We need fundamental, simplifying tax reform. We don’t need to tweak our tax code just to get a budget deal. Although it’s important to get a budget deal, we need something fundamental that is vastly simplified. My answer, lower every rate, close every loophole, but the fundamental truth is that we are literally choking the life out of the American economy and we have the numbers that prove it.

In order to get this economy back on its feet, in order for this country to be the beacon of hope and the shining city on the hill for so many both for those who are already here, and people who dream of coming here someday, we need three other things as well, fundamental reforms. We need fundamental education reform, we’ve talked a lot about that in this conference but lets remember what’s really needed. We spend more money per pupil on education in this country than virtually every other country in the civilized world and yet our results are poorer. We have increased the budget of the Department of Education for virtually every year for the last 40 years and yet the quality of our education continues to deteriorate. Why? Because it isn’t about how much money you spend. Its about how and where and on whom, and we know that the most important thing in order for a child to learn is a good teacher in the classroom, which means we must push for the opportunity for every parent to have a choice and every child to have a chance.

We must deliver fundamental immigration reform. We need those high skilled workers with a great degree but we also need those folks maybe don’t have a higher degree, but who have huge ambition and big dreams. We need a legal immigration system that works in this country because this is the century of brainpower.

And finally we need fundamental innovation reform. Perhaps we’ll talk about that with our panel but it means that the government has to decide to play the right role in encouraging and fostering innovation, creating an environment where people can take a risk and the right role for government is most definitely not to pick winners and losers and to try and act like a venture capitalist. They do a lousy job.

This is the century. The 21st century is the century of brainpower and innovation, and small business and entrepreneurship is where this starts. It is fundamental that as we look at the state of our economy going forward that we think about small businesses and entrepreneurs first.

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Today Fiorina is a former CEO, as well as a former political candidate, after an unsuccessful run for Barbara Boxer’s seat in the U.S. Senate. She speaks out as a political commentator and has much to say on the topic of women in leadership and the current debate over working from home.

Mashable got a chance to chat with Fiorina after her keynote at the Harvey Nash Leadership Lecture in New York.

Work From Home Debate

Mashable: What do you make of the debate surrounding Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer’s decision to put an end to remote working?

Fiorina:I think one of the things we’re bumping up against is the limitations and the possibilities of technology. I happen to believe that

telecommuting and working from home is a really wonderful option for all kinds of employees, most especially women balancing very complex lives. On the other hand, there are times when a face-to-face meeting is really required. Generally, I tend to shy away from absolute edicts — everyone has to be in the office all the time or everyone gets to telecommute all the time. I think both of those are the wrong answer. I think a mix of those tools is appropriate. We all know in our daily lives that technology can do a lot, thank goodness it can do a lot. There are times where you really really really have to be at your child’s school play, but you can also monitor something important that’s going on in the workplace. But we also all know that there are times when you have to look somebody in the eye and have a face-to-face conversation.

Mashable: It seems technology leaves so many parents, not just women struggling with that work-life balance, because it lets you be at the school play and check your BlackBerry or your iPhone, but it also means that you never put it down.

Fiorina: I totally agree with you. I think every family is struggling with, “When do you put it down?” I think we’re learning a new skill because we have this new tool…

Technology cannot control our lives, we have to control the technology. It is a tool — no more, no less. The most productive thing people can do sometimes is put it away, to give themselves time to think, time to refresh, time to be with their families, time to really be with a coworker. I think it’s going to take us a while to learn that, but we need to. Always on all the time doesn’t mean you’re productive at all. It just means you’re engaged in a bunch of activity and you’re responding to things.

Mashable: And it kind of makes you brain dead in the end.

Fiorina: There is no question. I mention in my remarks that leaders know the difference between activity and impact. You can spend all your day in activity that is generated by technology and have no impact at all.

Women as Leaders

Mashable: One of the things you said about leaders that struck me is that leaders can be made. Can you explain?

Fiorina: I don’t think anyone is born a leader, actually. Of course, people have certain skills and certain attributes, but everyone is made a leader through a combination of opportunity that comes their way, people who take a chance on them, they have the tools to take advantage of those chances and opportunities, and just plain guts to keep going when the going gets tough.

I firmly believe, based on experience, that anyone can lead. Many choose not to, but anyone actually can.

Mashable: Do you have any advice to give to women to help them believe they can get to a position of leadership?

Fiorina: Let me first define what I mean by leadership, because we often get mixed up and think, “I’m not a leader unless I have a big title.” Leadership isn’t about title actually, it’s about having a positive impact. What I would say to women is, have the confidence and the courage to live the life you choose. And make your own choices and live with your choices. Women have extraordinarily difficult choices to make, let’s not sugarcoat it. They have tougher choices than men have to make, still. Make your choices and feel good about those. Maybe you don’t want to be a CEO. That’s okay, that doesn’t mean you’re not a leader and it doesn’t mean you’re not successful. If you want to be a CEO, great. But we shouldn’t define success simply by how big somebody’s paycheck is.

Mashable: Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, in her new book, encourages women to reach out to other women, but in the real world sometimes women make it very difficult for other women to rise to the top. Do you have any thoughts on that?

Fiorina: Well, women are people too, and there are people who help others and people who don’t. I’m always struck by the fact that women continue to be talked about always in a gender-laden context. When women disagree, “Oh my gosh, let’s have a discussion about women.” When men disagree, we focus on the substance of the disagreement. Some help others, some people don’t. We shouldn’t be surprised when some women help others and some don’t. It’s human nature.

Getting Kids Interested in STEM

Mashable: For kids just starting out who want to get involved in the tech world, how do you get them involved in STEM (science technology engineering and mathematics) studies?

Fiorina: First it has to be accessible and fun. Kids don’t want to be bored. It’s why a good teacher is so important. If you have a lousy teacher, you’re not going to like the subject. I started out as a medieval history major. Why? Because I had this fantastic teacher who made it so interesting. If we want more kids to be excited about STEM, then we have to have great teachers in STEM. The data is pretty clear that we don’t have enough of them.

Mashable: How do we fix that? Can local governments pitch in, and corporations help with sponsorships?

Fiorina: The answer is all of the above. I actually wrote my thesis while I was at MIT on education and the role business should play — and government. I do think that companies can help, local companies in a community can help by sponsoring great teachers, providing internship opportunities for young kids: “Here let’s give you a look at the what of job you could have if you succeed in these studies.”

One thing we did while I was at Hewlett-Packard was we would identify kids in underserved communities, make sure they got into a program of STEM education, and then we would employ them over the summer, we would mentor them, we would help make sure they moved onto college, we gave them jobs in the summer. In other words, the community can really help support these teachers and these students by sponsoring them, giving them opportunities, bringing them into places of business to show folks the possibilities.

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Before Marissa Mayer and Sheryl Sandberg became the faces of female leadership in Silicon Valley, there was Carly Fiorina. She stepped into the CEO job at Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) in 1999, the first woman to run a Fortune 20 company. Fiorina famously declared that there was no glass ceiling. By 2005, when she was pushed out after a rocky tenure, Fiorina had a very different view. She’s since penned a memoir, run for governor of California, and launched the One Woman Initiative to empower women in the Muslim world.

So what does Fiorina, 58, make of Mayer, chief executive officer of Yahoo! (YHOO), halting employee telecommuting and Sandberg, chief operating officer ofFacebook (FB), campaigning to have women “lean in” and stick with their careers? I caught up with Fiorina on Feb. 27 in New York, where she gave the annual leadership lecture for search firm Harvey Nash.

What do you make of the reaction to Sheryl and Marissa?

Men disagree all the time and it’s not talked about in a gender-laden context. So why is it that when women disagree, the conversation is all about gender? The media kind of likes a catfight, so you have Ann-Marie Slaughter and Sheryl have different points of view. What a shock. People have different points of view all the time.

Let’s break it apart. Marissa is being pilloried for telling her employees they can’t work from home, especially as she’s now a working mother. Is she right to want everyone at the office while this company is in crisis?

I think the telecommuting discussion is interesting. We’re grappling with both the limits and the possibilities of what technology makes possible. There’s no doubt in my mind that every organization I’ve been a part of has benefited enormously by the existence of telecommuting options that give everyone—but most especially women—the opportunity to balance an enormously complicated life. I applaud the tools. But sometimes there’s no substitute for face to face.

Is this one of those times for Yahoo?

I tend to shy away from either-or answers. I think it’s all about balance. I would always want a viable telecommuting option available to everyone in the organization and I’d want to be able to say, “Today we need you in the office.”

You were in the spotlight as a female CEO. When you look at these women, does the attention feel different?

I think it has gotten better. There are more women CEOs. But women are subjected to a higher level of scrutiny and criticism than men, in every field.

Did you talk much about being a woman when you ran HP?

I was hesitant to speak about gender more than anything else. I tried to speak to all of our workforce. I was never politically active as a CEO, either. I felt it was important that I represent all of the company, not just some of the company. Obviously my heart is in helping more women and girls achieve their potential. That’s where I spend a lot of my money now. But a CEO always has to be careful to remember that they represent the company and everyone in it.

Has the culture of Silicon Valley changed?

The fact that we’re so laser-focused on these two women says something, doesn’t it? Silicon Valley fixates on people at the top, whoever they are. There’s this culture of the startup story, the iconic founder, so it’s in the water there. We’ve made some progress but there’s a long way to go. If Marissa and Sheryl were men who were making these kinds of pronouncements, given the importance of their companies, they would still get a lot of attention. Yahoo is a big company in the midst of yet another turnaround attempt. Attention will be paid to their CEO. Is the attention hotter, more critical, because she’s a woman? Probably. Women get more scrutiny than men. That’s just a fact.

What advice do you give to young women?

Recognize the reality that many of your co-workers, because they are men, will view you in a certain way. Some of them will be protective of you. Some of them will be threatened by you. Some will be genuinely interested in your development. Be realistic that you’ll run across some attitudes that are frustrating. But don’t get a chip on your shoulder. Don’t make it your problem. Being here is a relatively new phenomenon in human history.

Do you think too few women lean in and stay committed to their careers? Was that a problem in your peer group?

Women are more likely than men to get hurt by what people say about them. Don’t. Just accept that people will talk about you. Don’t dwell on it. Just keep going. It was more important to me to do the job I was hired to do. No matter what you do, people will talk about you.

Brady is a senior editor for Bloomberg Businessweek in New York.

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Former CEO of Hewlett-Packard Carly Fiorina believes that if Hewlett-Packard wants to be the number one computer vendor in the world, they should start by putting their money where their mouth is.

HP is racing to build a portfolio of tablets in its quest shift resources from the declining PC market to the profitable tablet and smartphone market.  But they have a long way to go to catch up with the likes of Apple.  In fact, Apple is selling more computers than HP, if you include iPad sales.  Fiorina believes HP could do it, but they need to start investing.

“HP has been the number one computer vendor in the world, so there’s no reason they shouldn’t be able to do it, but time will tell,” Fiorina told me at the Harvey Nash Leadership Conference Wednesday.  “It all depends upon the choices they make now, but it will require ongoing a very substantial investment in both innovation and marketing–things that prior to Meg Whitman’s tenure were slashed too much.”

Fiorina is, of course, referring to the days of Mark Hurd and Leo Apotheker.  Hurd, who was named CEO of HP in 2005 after Carly Fiorina was forced to resign, had a reputation of aggressive cost-cutting.  Hurd laid off ten percent of the workforce shortly after becoming CEO.  He also reduced the IT department by more than half and cut the number of software applications that HP used from 6,000 to 1,500.  Apotheker, who was CEO of HP for less than a year after Mark Hurd’s resignation, didn’t do much to help the company develop.  During his tenure, the company lost more than $30 billion in market capitalization after a series of strategic missteps, leading to his resignation.

The cuts may have been too much for HP, which has been slow to compete in the successful mobile market of smartphones and tablets.  Current HP CEO Meg Whitman is in the midst of slashing jobs as part of a $3 billion restructuring plan.  However, she is trying manage the consumer’s rapid transition to mobile by introducing a slew of Windows and Android-based tablets to the market, including the HP Slate 7.

But while HP is racing to catch up to the rest of the market, the declining PC market proved to be too much for Dell.  Dell recently announced its plans to go private, and Fiorina believes it was a smart move.

“I actually think Dell’s move to go private makes a lot of sense because it gives the company time to regroup– to reengineer away from the level of expectation of the public market,” Fiorina said.  “I think it creates some interesting new possibilities in the PC space, I mean maturing industries need to consolidate.  All of a sudden you have this private entity that maybe can attract some consolidation, so I think it was a smart move.”

The PC market has been consolidating for years, so it will be interesting to see who is left that would even be interested in teaming up with Dell.  But Fiorina thinks Dell needs to make a decision about its future pretty quickly.  Is it going to be a device company like Apple or a services company like IBM?

“They either have to get less into the device market or they have to follow the trends in the device market,” Fiorina said.  “They have to go one way or another.”

It may be too late for Dell, but is it too late for HP?  As Fiorina said, “time will tell.”  I think HP may be too far behind the 8-ball to catch up.  Who knows?  Maybe they will be the next one to go private.

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NEW YORK—While business leaders are worrying about how one cliff will constrain U.S. economic growth, there’s another critical ledge that should concern them: an “IT skills cliff.”

The term—which Bob Miano, president and CEO of executive search and recruitment firm Harvey Nash plc, used at an event his firm held Feb. 27 here—refers to shortages of skilled technology professionals.

This abyss created by the IT skills shortfall in areas including Java, .NET and C++ could severely curtail future U.S. economic growth, Miano told eWEEK. He compared it to the fiscal cliff that would result from sequestration—the politically charged combination of federal tax increases and spending cuts due to take effect March 1 that some analysts say can have dire effects on the U.S. economy.

“Unlike the fiscal cliff, where we are still peering over the edge, we careened over the ‘IT skills cliff’ some years ago as our economy digitized, mobilized and further ‘technologized’ and our IT skilled labor supply failed to keep up,” Miano wrote in a paper released at the event.

The shortage of IT talent is real and likely to accelerate in the near term, according to Miano. “It is not a cost issue but a demand issue,” he said.

Although discussions about skills gaps can become political—as some are inclined to dispute the existence of a shortage—others agree with Miano.

An IBM study released late last year found that the most acute need for IT skills is in the areas of mobile computing, cloud computing, social networking and analytics.

Also in demand are security skills. A shortage of security experts with leadership and communications skills poses a direct challenge to global organizations, according to a new study from International Information Systems Security Certification Consortium, or (ISC)2.

Employment trackers say the IT jobless rate is less than half the U.S. unemployment rate, hovering just under 8 percent. In some IT job segments, Miano said, the unemployment rate is 1.5 to 2 percent.

Three key means of meeting demand for IT talent, he said, are encouraging more students in the United States to pursue computer science careers, enabling foreign IT talent to immigrate to the U.S. via H-1B visas and tapping IT workers overseas.

Taking aim at U.S. economic and employment challenges, political commentator and former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina called for immigration and education reform, as well as finding ways to spur innovation and strengthen small businesses. Speaking at the Harvey Nash event, Fiorina said, “Our economy will continue to underperform unless we can deal with structural” obstacles and find long-term solutions to these issues.

“We have to have an ongoing fact-based dialogue about these challenges,” Fiorina told eWEEK. “There’s too little fact-based longer-term discussion in the public square and a lot of hyperbole-laced short-term discussion.”

That includes “getting great teachers in front of” students; simplifying tax code and the regulatory environment for small businesses; fostering innovation through gender, ethnic and cultural diversification; and passing immigration reform through “delicately crafted compromise,” Fiorina said.

The Immigration Innovation Act of 2013, introduced in late January by a bipartisan group of 10 senators, would increase the H-1B visa ceiling from 65,000 to 115,000, and could be adjusted to as high as 300,000.

The H-1B program enables U.S. businesses to “employ foreign workers in specialty occupations that require theoretical or technical expertise in specialized fields, such as scientists, engineers, or computer programmers,” according to the official U.S. government Website.

“Immigration is our life blood, and we need a comprehensive, long-term plan,” Fiorina said.
Harvey Nash plc uses a combination of U.S.-bred talent, immigrants and outsourcing to fill overflowing demand, Miano said. “Over 50 percent of my contractors are H-1B” to fill in gaps in .NET, Java, C++, SQL and other areas. We have to either grow more here, import more or outsource. You only have three options.”

And what about the other cliff—concerning the federal budget? As the hour glass runs out and there’s “little real effort under way to avert automatic budget cuts that take effect” March 1, politicians, businessmen and others consider the implications on the job market and the economy, according to a Feb. 27 article The New York Times.

If the U.S. economy, now recovering slowly, fell into a recession, “there would still be a need to replace people in IT—but for utility-type functions. However, innovation would suffer,” Miano told eWEEK. “During the recession of 2008, we still had to import H-1Bs. In 2008 and 2009, for example, we did not focus much on digital media. If we don’t move on [new technologies], other countries will take the lead.”

Uncertainty has made business planning difficult, Alice Hill, managing director of career and recruiting site Dice.com, told eWEEK in an email. “There’s still growth and opportunity, but not as much as there could be if we didn’t have this question hanging over our heads. One brighter spot is cyber-security where government budgets are a little more secure, so that area is less likely to be affected,” she wrote.

However, Hill explained, technology is integral to defense, and military contractors, particularly small ones, are apt to feel the pain of cuts because they depend more on government awards than large, diversified companies.
Fiorina sees “room to cut” inefficiencies. “If people manage smartly through this process,” she toldeWEEK, “it doesn’t need to have such an impact on the economy or the people.”

Overall, Fiorina expressed optimism about the long term. “The 21st century is unlike any other in human history,” she said. “This is the first time where any person anywhere can get any piece of information that they want. This is a brave new world. The 21st century will be defined by brain power.”

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Ms. Fiorina, who spoke an event sponsored by technology executive recruiting firm Harvey Nash, said government should invest in basic research and allow more immigration, and that companies should embrace diversity as a means of stimulating innovation. She emphasized the role of government in protecting corporate intellectual property, but distinguished that sharply from other areas of government investment, which she said the federal government should avoid.

“There is no question China is engaged in industrial espionage on a massive scale,” she said. Later, she added that individual companies can’t protect themselves because of the cost of developing defensive technologies and because competitive pressures prevent them from cooperating on this front. “That’s a place where no single company can invest enough,” she said during a private meeting with CIO Journal following the event.

Government has an important role to play in supporting innovation through education and a more favorable treatment of small businesses, Ms. Fiorina said, and it should invest more in basic research in energy, space exploration and information technology. She said she’s concerned that “government is walking away from its role of investing deeply in industries that are going to define this century.” But she was also critical of federal investment in areas in which private companies are already investing, saying “the government is a lousy venture capitalist.” She said government shouldn’t “pick winners and losers” among companies competing with established technologies. She criticized federal investment in 3D printing technology, mentioned by President Obama during his State of the Union address in January, as “just more of the same.”

Ms. Fiorina said that U.S. competitiveness would be improved if the government allowed more immigration, which she called “the life blood” of the economy. But she also said companies need to do more to diversify their executive ranks. She said the U.S. shouldn’t cap immigration allowed under the H1-B visa program. “It is critically important to have more H1-B visas” and said government can’t “know how many [H1-B visas] is enough.”

But companies with homogenous leadership have more trouble innovating, she said. Ms. Fiorina challenged executives to create diversity within their ranks, saying “you get more breakthroughs when people who are different challenge each other… We’ve made a mistake in business by pushing forward with diversity as a nice-to-do. It isn’t a nice-to-do; it’s a have-to-do.”

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