The lady got fired from her CEO job and no one has hired her since for a CEO job. She refused to take advice from her board and stockholders and lost everyone money while she fled the company in disgrace with a hundred million dollar golden parachute.
There are basically two types of CEO's. Ones that have been "fired" and ones that will be "fired". I'm sure she made mistakes. Show me a CEO that hasn't. Consumer goods once included a McDLT:
Classic Coke:
The WNBA:
The WLAF: aka NFL Europe:
Seriously, you have McDonalds, Coke, The NBA, The NFL....
Apple? Yeah, they had failures too:
Remember this?
I don't even know what that was....
All of these products went through the CEO's office. The only one still around is the WNBA and it only exists in the public consciousness because the NBA forces networks to air the games as part of the NBA package.
Seen any jackets with shoulder pads lately?
Anyway, the point is that CEOs screw up all the time. Is Carly one of them? Sure. With 20/20 hindsight, anyone can point out what she should have done differently. And I'll point out that the current front-runner of the GOP filed bankruptcy four times himself. So business acumen isn't apparently a factor.
As for the golden parachute...yeah; she's the ONLY ONE who ever walked away from a CEO slot with mega bucks.