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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. I then worked to transfer my virtual connections into the real world — ideally, at a conference or networking event.

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3 Reasons to Kill Influencer Marketing

Harvard Business Review

Now, it hardly makes sense that Hosni Mubarak and Viktor Yanukovych, who controlled the media and the major organs of power, lacked influence or access to influential people. In 2001, Jonah Peretti had an e-mail exchange with Nike that went viral on the Web. He was fascinated and, a year later, he met Duncan Watts at a conference.

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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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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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Why GE’s Jeff Immelt Lost His Job: Disruption and Activist Investors

Harvard Business Review

He sold off slower-growth, low-tech, and nonindustrial businesses — financial services, media, entertainment, plastics, and appliances. Everything is on the table,” Flannery said on a conference call to discuss quarterly earnings. He doubled GE’s investment in R&D. “Things will not stay the same at GE.”

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