BP's CEO, Tony Hayward, who has been with the company since 1982, was chastised again recently for poor leadership. This time, it was for taking a day off to watch a yacht race. He was seen as out of touch with what was happening to his company, which has lost more than half of its stock value, and for being out of touch with the enormity of the disaster in the Atlantic Ocean.
However, at this point, he's no longer who the rest of us should be watching. It's become very apparent that he's ineffective. Even BP's chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg, who has held the post for only a year, slipped on at least one occasion when talking about just who's in charge of stopping the leak. He later cleared up the confusion and said that they would not be changing CEO's in the middle of a crisis.
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