23andMe's Anne Wojcicki, formerly married to Google co-founder Sergey Brin, says Jensen Huang's affair shows what happens when CEOs think they are "untouchable"
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When personal conduct becomes a public narrative about being "untouchable," governance scrutiny tends to expand from boards to regulators, partners, and employees. If you’re leading a high-power org, assume your personal risk surface is now part of the company’s risk surface.
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Vendors are explicitly selling behavior change, not just seats and features—which means your real cost is the disruption tax on how people communicate and decide. Treat tools like Slack as org design interventions and budget for training, norms, and process rewrites, not just licenses.
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The Chinese spy allegation that toppled Nvidia's CEO is starting to look shaky
Leadership risk in strategic tech is now entangled with geopolitical narratives that may not hold up under scrutiny — board and succession planning needs a geopolitical lens, not just a performance one. If your roadmap depends on specific silicon vendors, model scenarios where leadership turbulence and export politics, not technology, are the binding constraint.