CEO who went viral for telling workers to 'leave pity city' now preaches empathy
She says the experience taught her how hard it is to 'be human through a screen.'
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The ‘leave pity city’ CEO says she feels terrible that her ‘rallying cry seemed insensitive’
MillerKnoll CEO Andi Owen went viral for the wrong reasons—she shut down employees who asked if they will get bonuses this year. Now, she is apologizing.
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Sarah Green Carmichael: What if we all work for a ‘Pity City’ boss?
“You can visit Pity City, but you can’t live there,” is pretty good advice in the context of, say, a one-on-one mentoring meeting with a promising-but-entitled young employee who’s just suffered a setback. But it’s exactly the wrong thing to say as the CEO of an 11,000-person company trying to…
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