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AUGUST 14, 2013

Still worse, by the CEO. 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. The one out of line was Tim Armstrong. Armstrong owes Lenz a formal apology. Want more on CEOs? A bad dream? David Grossman.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s firing of a Patch employee and subsequent apology. 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.

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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.

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