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The Path to Transparency

Coaching Tip

WikiLeaks, the swashbuckling new-media organization whose motto is “We open governments,” relies on a technology of extreme reticence called Tor Hidden Services — a part of the Tor Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated not to light and clarity but to shadows and opacity, to the increasingly difficult art of keeping secrets online.

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Has the HAL 9000 Finally Arrived?

Harvard Business Review

Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey , featuring the HAL 9000 computer with its rogue personality. I remember telling my friends that by 2001 we would all have a HAL to help us manage our lives. Coincidentally, the director of the IBM project is named David, like the astronaut in 2001. The movie was Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C.

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Share Your Own Job-Search Story

Harvard Business Review

It was a late evening in 2001 — in the small Indian town of Kozhikode — when my friend's father, Professor Salahudheen shared this advice, "Son, job hunting is a different art. It demands specific skills and you need to develop these skills to win the game.". We invite you to share your own stories with us in the comments.

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Do You Really Want to Bet Against China?

Harvard Business Review

And after that, when China and India’s spectacular growth in the first decade of the new millennium proved Rohwer right in spades, he wasn’t around to say I told you so because he’d died (in a sailing accident) in 2001. Am I utterly confident in that prediction after four days in Shanghai and just 10 total in China? (I

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The Former Head of the CIA on Managing the Hunt for Bin Laden

Harvard Business Review

His death was the culmination of a global manhunt that lasted more than a decade and assumed extreme urgency after the September 11, 2001, attacks. Pushing for such change at CIA — particularly in 2009, the year we joined, when counterterrorism missions were receiving harsh media and political scrutiny — was even more challenging.

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How Software Is Helping Big Companies Dominate

Harvard Business Review

Even outside of the tech sector, the employment of more software developers is associated with a greater increase in industry concentration, and this relationship appears to be causal. That’s not how Vox Media does it. Over 70% of the firms’ software budgets goes to code developed in-house or under custom contracts.