People often make the worst professional mistakes when they find themselves acting on their basic emotions. How do I know? I allowed it to happen to me. I considered myself a coolheaded executive until I made a choice that severely damaged my company and colleagues—all because I wanted to fit into Hollywood’s creative community—unleashing one of the worst cyberattacks in corporate history. It exposed the confidential emails of insiders and put my own family at risk. Although the severity of what became known as “the Sony hack” was widely reported at the time, I’ve never told the story as it…

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