leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 14, 2013
According to Business Insider, last week AOL’s CEO Tim Armstrong told Wall Street they’re cutting Patch – AOL’s local news network – websites from 900 to 600. As a next step, Armstrong got on a conference call with those 1,000 Patch employees with the intention of boosting morale and to talk about what’s next. And it’s all on tape.
leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 20, 2013
Last week we covered the recent case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong firing an employee (Patch creative director, Abel Lenz) publically while on a conference call of 1,000 employees. And it wasn’t until four days after Lenz was fired that Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology for his behavior. It was all caught on tape.
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leaderCommunicator
JANUARY 21, 2014
In August 2013, AOL CEO Tim Armstrong announced that AOL would be reducing the number of Patch websites. Soon afterward, Armstrong spoke to 1,000 employees on a conference call that was intended to boost morale and discuss the future. Armstrong ended up firing Patch’s Creative Director , Abel Lenz, in front of everyone.
leaderCommunicator
AUGUST 21, 2013
It took AOL CEO Tim Armstrong 4 days to apologize for the firing of an employee in front of 1,000 other employees. Here are my thoughts about what might have happened (expletives have been removed): Senior leader to Tim on Monday: “You need to apologize to Abel for what happened.”. One has to wonder what took so long. Tim: “For what?
Harvard Business Review
SEPTEMBER 13, 2013
The second story comes from AOL CEO Tim Armstrong, who last month hosted a meeting and call to address the 1,100 employees of Patch, a unit that had been losing money and was about to face some layoffs. Repeatedly Armstrong told his staff that anyone not fully invested in Patch should leave. Out of here.”
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