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For CEOs, Safe Decisions Aren’t Always Safe

N2Growth Blog

What we don’t need is more CEOs who hide in safe harbors. If you sit in the big chair, you don’t get paid to make safe decisions; you get paid to make the right decision. Being politically correct rarely solves problems – it exacerbates them. We need CEOs who want others to do better and be better.

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List to the Lee

Chris Brady

     It's our true calling Our life's one purpose That carries us home again Safe harbor's purchase. .     But it's there for good For our greatest gain And sometimes we find it most When in the most pain.

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Innovating Now for a Post COVID19 World

Innovation Excellence

We are presented with a huge opportunity to nudge, seed and begin to establish future habits, and to create safe harbors that will thrive as the storm clears. Globally distributed and limited source supply chains are cost efficient, but fragile to natural disasters and political upheaval. Actions Now Matter.

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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

To stop all the downloading , Wayne's record label must issue takedowns to newalbumreleases and/or RapidShare, which are protected from liability by the DMCA (as long as they are following the safe harbor provisions), and only I and the million downloaders are liable. It's about protecting intellectual property.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

In the midst of protests emerging all around the US complaining about the power that corporations have inside our political system, big content is quite literally trying to foist its own version of the Great Firewall of China on to the American public. If they don't, they lose their safe harbor provisions. So what's in the bill?

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

Harvard Business Review

For example, I recall multiple instances during the Obama administration when, during debates about America’s Afghanistan strategy, the intelligence analysis of deteriorating political and security conditions in the country stood in sharp contrast to more upbeat assessments from U.S. officials in Kabul.

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Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees

Harvard Business Review

in 2016 , despite a failed coup attempt, terror attacks, political turbulence, and a halt to international capital inflows felt across emerging economies. Syrians no longer feel as welcome as they did when the Turkish border first opened to give them safe harbor. That’s one reason why Turkey’s GDP grew by 2.9%