This is interesting at the end of the interview, John Bryne looking at the differences between Lisa Su and Rory Read with regards to leading AMD.

Byrne: Lisa and I have worked together as peers for three years. She became my boss for three or four months as COO. Lisa and I have a great relationship. If I was to articulate the difference between then and now, Rory is an operational wizard. Being the COO of the world’s largest PC manufacturer at Lenovo and getting an operation moving super fast and then changing directions super fast — Rory was brilliant.

The level of discipline that Rory brought to the company … by discipline, I don’t just mean the balance sheet and profitability, although those are big things. But even assuring that we brought the products to market. Because he came from a customer. AMD had these great products, and then they’d have a slip. A great product, then a slip. It impacts your ability to get share. Rory brought in that level of execution.

With Lisa, Lisa obviously has operational discipline, but being a technologist and an engineer, she has a true passion for the technology and the products we’re bringing to the marketplace. That’s a subtle difference. Rory got us in a great fitting. Stage one of the reset, acceleration, getting us into the beginning of transformations. Transformations are never linear. I wish they were, but they’re not. Lisa is the right leader at the helm for AMD.

If Rory and John are part of the Poet future, I think we'll be in good hands.