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Ancestry CEO adopts Tim Cook's lunch strategy for unfiltered employee insights

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Ancestry CEO Howard Hochhauser has adopted a practice of eating lunch with employees in the break room, a strategy he learned from Apple's Tim Cook. Hochhauser believes this approach provides unfiltered information and helps CEOs avoid becoming isolated in a "bubble." AI

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Ancestry CEO adopts Tim Cook's lunch strategy for unfiltered employee insights

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  1. Fortune TIER_1 English(EN) · Emma Burleigh ·

    Ancestry’s CEO says a billionaire boss taught him to eat lunch with employees in the break room—it gives him access to ‘unfiltered information’

    Ancestry’s Howard Hochhauser says that CEOs get wrapped “in this bubble.” Apple and Duolingo execs are also breaking free by breaking bread with staffers.

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