When Barbara Waugh took a job in the mid 1980s with the venerable blue-chip, high-tech corporation Hewlett-Packard, she was a longtime radical activist--with a history of institutional confrontation--searching for a way to make a bigger impact on the world. It seemed an unlikely match. This galvanizing memoir follows her from day one of her seventeen undaunted years at Hewlett-Packard. She used her positions as company recruiting manager, then personnel director and worldwide change manager at the renowned HP Labs, to energize the latent creativity and altruism of employees at all levels, and to further open up the company to women and minorities. Flying under the radar, maneuvering intuitively around the formal corporate hierarchy, Barbara Waugh discovered and created with her colleagues a set of radical tools. They used these pragmatic change strategies to bring out the best in each other and the company as a whole, on behalf of a larger vision including and beyond the calculation of profit and loss. The result was nothing less than the transformation of Hewlett-Packard`s corporate culture. Determined from the beginning to put teeth into the idea of doing well by doing good, she prompted Hewlett-Packard to embark on a whole new dimension of corporate enterprise. She is now co-founder of HP`s World e-Inclusion, a program to enable the four billion people at the bottom of the global economic pyramid to have easy access to the social and economic opportunities of the Internet. Fast-moving, filled with stirring and often funny anecdotes, THE SOUL IN THE COMPUTER is a visionary`s handbook for practical change, large or small, in any company or organization.