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The Path to Transparency

Coaching Tip

A deliberately byzantine system of virtual tunnels that conceal the origins and destinations of data, and thus the identity of clients, Tor has been around since 2001, when programmers from M.I.T. Naval Research Laboratory introduced it at a California security conference. and the U.S.

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How Companies Escape the Traps of the Past

Harvard Business Review

And yet without Box 2, organizations don’t truly transform; they persist in limiting ways of operating. ” In his characteristic style, Welch blasted the Elfun Society at their leadership conference. So, how do you build Box 2 muscle? How do you build a company that’s able to routinely toss what no longer works?

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

Harvard Business Review

May 2 marks the fifth anniversary of the operation that killed the world’s most wanted terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. 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 trail had gone cold. He had deep knowledge and credibility.