Rolls-Royce Takes the Fast Lane Out of Pity City

It seems the automaker’s new CEO was a genius to terrify his troops with the searing image of a flaming wreck.

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Remember in April when the CEO of that furniture company said “you can visit Pity City, but you can’t live there” and everyone gasped in horror? It was clearly the wrong tactic to get employees jazzed about their jobs. But MillerKnoll’s Andi Owen is hardly the first CEO to crash and burn after giving employees a healthy dose of “tough love,” loosely defined.