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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s Apology to Employees is Pathetic

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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?

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The Right Way to Rally Your Troops

Harvard Business Review

How do the best CEOs confront that challenge? When the heat is on, and pressure intense, how do they rally their troops? For 10 years, I worked as a consultant to John Emery, CEO of Emery Worldwide, now part of UPS. Every six months, we produced a video to update employees around the world on how the company was doing.

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