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What I Learned When I Quit the Rat Race

Lead Change Blog

Yes, I did reach the top, traveled a lot, could make decisions, had power, influence, money, and everything that I had dreamt for. Sail away from the safe harbor. To achieve my goal, I had worked hard and grown through the ranks. I had relentlessly pursued the dream of reaching the top. I loved my career.

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The EU Privacy Ruling Won’t Hurt Innovation

Harvard Business Review

The EU’s human rights-centered views have been influencing global standards and privacy practices in the Middle East for decades, and businesses have adapted to more restrictive markets, like China and North Korea , and thrived. Google has asserted that this will adversely affect innovation, but those claims are premature.

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How to Reduce Primary Care Doctors’ Workloads While Improving Care

Harvard Business Review

In contrast to cardiologists or orthopedists who can limit their responsibility to heart disease or joint- and bone-related issues and triage all other issues back to primary care providers, those providers have no safe harbor.

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How the Apple/FBI Fight Risks the Whole U.S. Tech Industry

Harvard Business Review

The damage has also extended through to Europe, specifically through the Safe Harbor provisions that govern the transfer of data between the U.S. In the words of the committee, these Chinese companies “cannot be trusted to be free of foreign state influence and thus pose a security threat to the United States and to our systems.”

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Remaining Objective Is Hard, But the Best Leaders Figure Out How to Do It

Harvard Business Review

In other words, during periods of great stress, our best leaders rely on sound tradecraft as their safe harbor. I thought that our secrets were the key to guaranteeing the intelligence community’s continuing influence and access to the president and to other senior policymakers.

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Understanding Your Legal Options If You’ve Been Sexually Harassed

Harvard Business Review

The law too often gives employers a safe harbor. Kalanick recently stepped down as CEO, in part because of the company’s culture and his influence on it.). Women who are considering making a formal complaint should be realistic about the financial, psychological, and reputational cost of pursuing it.

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

The DSM will facilitate data-sharing “safe harbor” agreements, bank licensing agreements, and uniform rules affecting digital traffic ranging from e-commerce to digital streaming across the EU. Hostility Between US Companies and EU Regulators will Increase, and Britain’s Influence Will Wane.