IMPACTROOM for managers, marketeers and mothers*: WikiLeaks (temporary?) out of business

Sunday, July 17, 2011

WikiLeaks (temporary?) out of business

At the moment WikiLeaks is not accepting new submissions due to re-engineering improvements the site to make it both more secure and more user-friendly. Since WikiLeaks is not currently accepting submissions during the re-engineering, they have also temporarily closed their online chat support for how to make a submission.

Our opinion: If WikiLeaks wants to remain a believable news source it has to remove the Homepage ad, featuring Julian Assange asking the public 'to keep us stong'. Who is 'us' in the ad ? It is not clear any more if donations are used to help finance the defence of Assange's personal court case, or the further development of WikiLeaks as a news site.

About Impactroom

Impactroom is a personal research blog on life, leadership and management issues by Gert Van Mol.

Gert Van Mol founded The Wall Street Journal Europe Future Leadership Institute (later to become 'The Future Leadership Institute') as well as The International Student Senate. He is also Non-Executive Director EU Policy at OLPC (One Laptop Per Child). Between 2011 and 2013 he was CEO of the TV station Life!tv. In 2013 he became CEO of Skyview, an Amsterdam company installing permanent Giant Ferris Wheels in top tier European cities. In 2015 he was asked to execute the Chapter 11 (WCO) conditions of www.foto.com for the Belgian court of Nivelles.

About the Impactroom idea

Impactroom evolves around questions such as: What is the difference between a manager and a leader ? Should we read expensive managementguru books or just pass them around as gifts ? Are excellent male managers better fathers ? Why are managers spending more time with their colleagues than with their own family ?

About the 'Mothers*' in the title of this blog? Mothers are managers by nature, although they don't see it that way most of the time. Important lessons are to be learned from women with children. They are the future topmanagers.

Copyright all texts and pictures @ Gert Van Mol unless otherwise stated.