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The Top 3 Corporate Communication Mistakes of 2013

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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. Armstrong ended up firing Patch’s Creative Director , Abel Lenz, in front of everyone. What happened instead was far from morale-boosting.

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