I’ve noticed in many (but not all) Silicon Valley CEO’s a phenomenon that I’d call Management by Unreasonable Standards. For tech companies, it happens to be an unreasonably effective strategy.
In the top job, any whiff of favoritism or secrecy destroys trust. For Priceline's Darren Huston, any office affair would raise questions: what—or more importantly, who—did he and his partner talk about when they were alone together?