[Originally posted on Forbes.com.] Andrew Mason’s unsurprising ouster from Groupon last week wasn’t entirely about his personal brand. As anyone who has been paying attention knows, the group-discount company has been performing spectacularly badly. Its fourth-quarter earnings report was awful, with a GAAP loss of 12 cents per share—that’s 10 cents more (or six times [...]
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This is the fourth in a series of 10 posts about different aspects of CEO branding. Where does the buck stop in your organization? U.S. President Harry S. Truman spelled it out with a sign on his desk: “The buck stops here!” With those words, which he also keenly referenced in speeches, he explicitly took [...]
Jul 19, 2012 | Categories:Brands, Features, Insights | Tags: accountability, accountable, BP, business leaders, CEO, CEO branding, CEOs, dignity, employees, fairness, Harry S. Truman, Howard Schultz, humility, News Corp., News of the World, president, respect, Rupert Murdoch, shareholders, Starbucks, The buck stops here, Tony Hayward, trust | Leave A Comment »
