Thursday, September 19, 2019

How to get the ear of your CEO—and what to say when you have it



‘If I Happen to Fall out of a Window, You Can Be Sure I Was Pushed’ (interview) Edward Snowden, Der Spiegel
Williams @IANS Chicago @MalwareJake

With @Snowden book coming out, I'm hearing multiple respected people in the industry say "the domestic programs were wrong, I just don't agree with how he released the data." I get where these people are coming from, but let's examine why this is a hollow argument.






"Journalism is not a crime and should be never be treated as such," Mr Albanese said to applause.
"It's something we simply can't be complacent about so we need to cherish it, we need to nurture it, and we need to support whatever legislative change is required to ensure that press freedom remains a central component of our democratic democratic system,"

Tax Prof Twitter Census (2019-20 Edition) (Updated)


Hacking away at golf clubs simply par for the course


Golf courses are the easy targets when it comes to finding green space for the ever-increasing numbers of people the government is allowing into the country.



Berejiklian majority at risk as sex selection amendment fails


Rebel MPs have not be given one of their key demands in the abortion debate, prompting fears they will defect to the crossbench.

Is There A Tech Backlash?


No, and it’s wild that we think there is one. “Technology has improved the world, and our lives, in plenty of ways. But it often seems we are willing to overlook significant potential downsides in exchange for rather trivial payoffs.” – The New York Times






Biographer Jean Edward Smith, Who Brought Grant And Eisenhower Out Of Obscurity, Has Died At 83

Smith not only cleared up the reputation of President Ulysses Grant – showing that “Grant’s poor reputation as president had been fostered in part by biased graduate students at Columbia University who wrote the first studies of Reconstruction” – but restored to prominence the contributions of John Marshall, the fourth Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. (And he also wrote a scathing biography of the 43rd president, George W. Bush.) – The New York Times














CEOs are often blind to cultural problems

A new study has also found Australian chief executives saw less need for change than other employees.
Rob Apatoff, via Kellogg Executive Leadership Institute
CEOs are always looking for the best and strongest leaders they can find. That’s one of the most important jobs the CEO has.
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