Benhamou's DOUBLE VISION

摘要

Eric A. Benhamou, chairman and interim CEO of Palm Inc., admits to being intensely focused, persistent and always conscious of the strategic picture. That's a good thing, because challenges at Palm could easily distract a lesser executive. The U.S. recession has dampened sales in the handheld computer industry. Microsoft Corp. is reaching for Palm software market shares. Palm must overcome past operational blunders. And, not-so-incidentally, Benhamou is splitting the company in two. Palm's interim CEO was called out of the boardroom in November 2001 to replace CEO Carl Yankowski and right the floundering $1.03 billion, Santa Clara, Calif.-based leader of the handheld device market. As Palm chairman, Benhamou says he intimately knew the situation he was inheriting as temporary chief executive―and how to address it.