You need to directly link to this because this apology does not actually show up on https://newsroom.uber.com/ . http://i.imgur.com/9fiFNJx.png
A profound apology
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#62Here's the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTEDYCkNqns
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#63> This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it. That's bold. I can't remember hearing any recent CEO saying this. Best of luck to Uber and their CEO.
That's because normally the CEO is fired after presiding over a fuckup of this magnitude. (The rampant racism and sexism, not just this latest)
If social media wants his head, I'm sure they can get it.
I think it's bad for tech and the country when we don't support people who say they made a mistake and are seeking help. If you do that, you only end up with really good liars in charge.
Allow someone, somewhere, to admit a mistake and correct it in a leadership position.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
So, welcome to the world, where there's a reason why the phrase "public figure" contains the word public . I tend to agree that, in an ideal world, it wouldn't be that way. But this is hardly an ideal world, and I'm kind of frightened that someone confused on this point should be building a read/write API on bank accounts.
Your point about ideal world vs. real world makes sense. But your personal attack on sjtgraham is unwarranted.
Thank you for this foo101.
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#65I'm a bit unclear what is so negative about this. While there is an argument that a leader should be able to handle criticism without losing his/her temper, he appears to respond to the driver as an equal with whom he profoundly disagrees. He didn't write the man off or act as though he wasn't worth his time, he simply responded in a frustrated manner to an interaction that he clearly was not in the mood for. Does be…
>Kalanick: You know what?
>Kamel: What?
>Kalanick: Some people don't like to take responsibility for their own shit. They blame everything in their life on somebody else.
I think that is a very insulting and superior thing to say to someone.
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#66> This is the first time I’ve been willing to admit that I need leadership help and I intend to get it. That's bold. I can't remember hearing any recent CEO saying this. Best of luck to Uber and their CEO.
> That's bold. I can't remember hearing any recent CEO saying this. It sounds more like the kind of apology one would make after getting caught diddling children and blaming it on an addiction to snorting horse tranquilizer.
Hey so for what it's worth those horse tranquilizers will leave you totally unable to diddle, or even stand.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
I certainly do not intend to take Travis' side on anything, but sometimes genuine internal realizations are set off by external events (e.g. Spiderman and his Uncle getting shot, or in more seriousness, any number of reformed ex-cons). The problem is that it is largely impossible for an external observer to differentiate genuine internal realization and competency at public relations.
The good news is that determining the truth of "internal realizations" is entirely irrelevant. Look at what people do, what they have done, not what they say. On that account, Uber and Kalanick's track record is quite clear. We've gone through this apology ruse any number of times, and yet here we are again.
> We've gone through this apology ruse any number of times, and yet here we are again.
Not to this degree. He said he intends to get help. Companies don't change their culture without the CEO being involved in the process. A CEO saying this is a big deal.
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No, bold would be stepping down after this degree of widespread failure. This is just a new flavor of bullshit.
That would be an easier path. Retire rich. The harder one is facing his mistakes publicly and trying to correct them.
It would be easy for you, I doubt it's easy for the personality type we find in him.
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#70At this point who can have empathy for the management of this company? This overvalued, overinvested company.