This is clearly not ideal but a strong underlying management structure is now in place and day-to-day management of the business will be unaffected.

It is a well-used tactic by US lawyers to pitch for wildly optimistic damages claims to force a pre-trial settlement.

It's easy to be caught up in the frenetic day-to-day issues and neglect the strategic part of management. That's why it's important to have a strategic portfolio management process that forces managers to pick their heads up from time to time and look at the big picture. Over time, they'll find they're affected by these disruptive technologies less and less.

We consider it as a political intervention in the day-to-day management of the Internet.

At the end of the day, they are really betting on the management team's ability to execute the business plan.

Time management is critical to productivity because most people try to cram as much as possible in a day.