Published on: Wednesday, July 14, 2010

BP “Needs Adult Supervision”

Posted By: Robyn Greenspan
Filed Under: robyn greenspan, leadership, execunet, marketing, roundtables, general management, bp, sales, crisis, consulting

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There's no disputing that the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico has been over-analyzed by multidisciplinary external interests, but this ExecuNet member in our Sales and Marketing Roundtable group summarized it very simply, while echoing many of the sentiments coming from other senior-level professionals that someone needs to step up and display some authentic leadership.

"Two other guys there [would] have been better with the media and in general, but it would help if there were some women in BP visible too, as women are perceived as caretakers and generally better perceived in governance and accountability," this CEO of a marketing communications company added.

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