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AOL CEO Tim Armstrong’s Apology to Employees is Pathetic

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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.”. Ask for forgiveness and make it right – Talk about how you’ll fix things and follow through. Which makes me think about the dialogue inside AOL. Tim: “For what?

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What Great Leaders Can Learn from Great Photographers

Harvard Business Review

Sam Abell falls into the latter camp of truly reflective practitioners. Abell has figured out that the way to get a great photograph is not to take it but to make it. For him, framing his first photographs as a boy, this meant fighting his instinct to follow a moving subject with his lens. Photo Credit: Sam Abell.

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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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