Talk:Rules of the garage

Can someone please explain why it says both '12 rules' and '11 rules'? How may rules are there? Since the list says 11, I'm changing where it says 12 to 11 until someone can explain the discrepancy. If you have something else, change it. --MPH (talk) 20:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

The source has put two rules on one line (the 9th) and the semicolon is really a period, so there are twelve rules that look like eleven.--Debouch (talk) 21:48, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Removed from page

I removed this from the article itself. I didn't think it belonged there, as it was a criticism of the article itself:

This article is wrong in a number of ways. For example, in his book "The HP Way, How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company", the chapter on the garage mentions that the two level house, a small building and a one car garage were owned by Bill Hewlett and that David Packard and his wife "Lu" rented the lower level. There is no mention of any rules. This seems to be consistent with a speech given by a subsequent CEO, Carly Fiorina, that the rules of the garage were a later fabrication which seem to capture the feeling of the garage: http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/execteam/speeches/fiorina/tiecon_01.html. These weren't created by Hewlett and Packard.

I was reading over the article mentioned and I think I found the quote they are talking about: "We found the best of our culture by going back to our roots, to our origins in the garage and to the ways of working, the mind-sets, the beliefs, that that garage symbolizes for us. We've developed our "rules of the garage" to truly capture the essence of HP's culture." it implies it, but doesn't set it out clearly. Anyone have any more research in this matter? --FlyingGremlin (talk) 15:36, 3 May 2014 (UTC)

Fiorina's Rules; Rules of the Garage did not exist before she came on board.

Fiorina had some wordsmith create those rules; then she propagated them through the company without much explanation. She was hired to change the direction of the company, but she focused on cosmetics like changing the logo (to hp INVENT}. I do not know why she fetishized the Addison Avenue garage so much. But note that the "rules" contain the word "Invent" twice.

She may have been trying to reassure the workforce that it was still Bill and Dave's company, even though Dave was gone and Bill was an invalid when she was hired.

The Compaq merger showed the biggest difference between Fiorina and the previous management. Throughout its history, HP had acquired companies that possessed capabilities that it lacked, especially new technologies. In contrast, Compaq completely duplicated parts of the computer side of the business.50.0.36.160 (talk) 06:05, 20 February 2015 (UTC)