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The article alleges that the board compared notes after speaking individually with Altman and determined that he had misrepresented statements/opinions from the other board members when speaking to them one on one. This caused the board to believe Altman is/was not being genuine and honest with them. Is an attempt to manipulate the other board members into firing one board member reason enough to be fired?

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> Is an attempt to manipulate the other board members into firing another board member reason enough to be fired?

No, but lying to Board members about what other Board members have said is. The employee equivalent would be lying to one member of the C-suite about what another had said.

> Is an attempt to manipulate the other board members into firing one board member reason enough to be fired?

Yes. He's not a teenage girl, he's the CEO of a nonprofit. At his level this is fraudulent misrepresentation.

The board should have shared those specific details with their initial announcement. Might not have been enough to win over the employees/stakeholders, but they'd have a much better chance that way than how things actually played out

There were no notes.

But there were plenty of lawyers on all sides with some threatening to sue anyone who said a bad word about Altman regardless of the truth. A threat can be exactly worded or implied.

The rack up debt and fail on mediocre idea and then sell your only valuable resource, your human employees Plan gave him a lot of money to hire a lot of law school grads who have since made partner.

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