AOL’s ‘Unappealing’ Tim Armstrong Provides a ‘Lesson’

Financial Times: AOL CEO Tim Armstrong “is living proof that it is nonsense to argue that the most successful leaders are the humble ones,” according to Financial Times management columnist Lucy Kellaway. “Every modern management expert will tell you that CEOs who are arseholes no longer survive. Mr Armstrong is living proof that this is nonsense. If you enrich your shareholders — which you tend to do if you are hell-bent on succeeding — you can be as nice or as nasty as you like.”