leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 14, 2013

Instead, he took a very no-holds-barred approach to the conversation and ended up firing Patch’s Creative Director, Abel Lenz in front of those employees. Late yesterday, Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology and cited an apology to Abel. And it’s all on tape. Armstrong owes Lenz a formal apology. What took him so long?

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leaderCommunicator

AUGUST 20, 2013

Last week we covered the recent case of AOL CEO Tim Armstrong firing an employee (Patch creative director, Abel Lenz) publically while on a conference call of 1,000 employees. It was all caught on tape. And it wasn’t until four days after Lenz was fired that Armstrong sent AOL employees an apology for his behavior.

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leaderCommunicator

JANUARY 21, 2014

Armstrong ended up firing Patch’s Creative Director , Abel Lenz, in front of everyone. Soon afterward, Armstrong spoke to 1,000 employees on a conference call that was intended to boost morale and discuss the future. What happened instead was far from morale-boosting.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2016

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. The key, Abell learned, is not to chase its unfurling arc: “Let the rope come to you.” Photo Credit: Sam Abell. Read Creativity, Inc. ,

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Then, abruptly, he fired someone standing in the room with him: creative director Abel Lenz. “Stop shooting”, he said, followed quickly by: “Abel you’re fired. ” That sort of response pushes the brain into fight or flight mode, reducing its ability to reason, problem-solve and think creatively.

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