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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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Niall Ferguson and the Rage Against the Thought-Leader Machine

Harvard Business Review

These are all leading members of a rising digital media elite, closely connected via social media, who are pretty sure their peers and readers would never let them get away with nonsense like that. Which is where my thought leader idea comes in. for a sample) who seems to have stretched himself too thin.

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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. The Bin Laden operation was a seminal moment in the campaign to decimate Al Qaeda’s leadership. Reorienting priorities in a large government bureaucracy is hard enough.