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The Family Dynamics We Grew Up with Shape How We Work

Harvard Business Review

But I’ve found another influence, equally deep-seated, that affects how they deal with others in the C-suite: their earliest interactions with family members and friends. A CEO may recreate dysfunctional early family experiences in the organization, influencing team members (who have their own early family dynamics as a backdrop).

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Use Doctrine to Pierce the Fog of Business

Harvard Business Review

In today's markets, business leaders face a similar challenge: how to pierce through the "the fog of business.". But delegation can lead to invisibility, inconsistency and even chaos. Rather than step in to micromanage, they clarified and reinforced the doctrine. It is authoritative but requires judgment in application."

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The Tangled Web of Net Neutrality and Regulation

Harvard Business Review

To be clear, I agree with Netflix CEO Reed Hastings, who recently acknowledged that net neutrality principles have been and will continue to be strictly enforced not by regulation but by powerful market forces. Here, the effort to transform Internet Service Providers (ISPs) into utilities is a cure far worse than the problem.