leaderCommunicator
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. Late yesterday, Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology and cited an apology to Abel. Want more on CEOs? A bad dream? And it’s all on tape.
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?
leaderCommunicator
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. 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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