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Calls for Twitter CEO to ‘step aside’ to allow greater leadership

on Dec 27, 2014 | 0 comments

By Natalie Mortimer

Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has continued to be berated for his leadership skills after Harvard Business School professor Bill George said the social exec is not “in the same class” as the heads of Google and Facebook.

George told CNBC that Costolo should step down from his role at Twitter and be replaced by another leader to reverse the “slow down” in the site’s user base growth.

“Costolo is not a product guy. He’s a consultant,” he said. “He doesn’t really understand product the way a Larry Page or a Mark Zuckerberg does, and so I think you need a new team Read full story ›

Source: The Drum