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Boringness: The Secret to Great Leadership
Until recently, I hadn't really known any great leaders. As a writer, the highest-ranking people I deal with are editors, and they're pretty much just writers who have gotten lazy...
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"I don't think [Facebook] is a bubble. I think it's the beginning of the end of the valley as we know it."
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Until recently, I hadn't really known any great leaders. As a writer, the highest-ranking people I deal with are editors, and they're pretty much just writers who have gotten lazy...
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While Facebook's rise took many by surprise, its success was little surprise to the hundreds of researchers who study social interactions in neuroscience labs across the country...
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Nick Hanauer is the kind of innovator and venture capitalist expected to power the country's next wave of growth. So why does he insist that only the fading middle class can rescue America?
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Polymath is one of those words more likely to show up on the SAT than in everyday conversation...
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Over the 23 years since we met, my wife Eleanor and I have spent considerable time, money, and energy on our development...
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Believe it or not, other stocks besides Facebook traded on Friday. Although Zynga probably wishes…
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If you're marketing a bass guitar or an orchid or an electric SUV, why are you concerned with what everyone thinks about it? It seems to me that you should only care about the opinion of those that...
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Two leading banks, honored for National Small Business Week, offer their best advice to business owners seeking credit.Get the latest blog articles on...
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A meticulously prepared portrait of how ExxonMobil sees itself as bigger than individual nation states
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Without control over its currency, the country is left without its best tool to fix the economy
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A roundup of the highlights from The Globe's home for entrepreneurs
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With the Apple founder's death and the Facebook IPO, there's been a changing of the guard in Silicon Valley. Here's how the two leaders'...
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How to make your office project a professional image for your business, and a look at products to help you do it.
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If you are seeking capital to fund your business, whether from angel investors or VCs, here are three things you need to know.Get the latest blog articles on...
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A man has been injured after a shooting incident at a building outside Longford town in the early hours of this morning.
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Big cash influx after initial public offering also expected to spark a flurry of weddings
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Facebook's shares open for trading today. Chances are, you're holding your breath or rolling your eyes...
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After weeks of anticipation, the companys initial public offering was beset by technical difficulties and only modest gains
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Investors prove cool to much-anticipated IPO, and to similar social media platforms, on skepticism over viability, strength of advertising base
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After weeks of anticipation, Facebooks IPO was beset by technical difficulties and only modest early gains
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Vodafone Ireland scored a hat trick while Blacknights Michele Neylon put his companys social media success down to a personable approach at the second annual Social Media Awards.
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People talk about Francis Bacon as the last person to know everything. Apparently, these people don't know any 15-year-old girls. Because these girls know everything...
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Nick Hanauer is a venture capitalist from Seattle whose speech at TED was deemed "too politically controversial" for the website.
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Espen Robak is the president of Pluris Valuation Advisors, where he tracks burgeoning trading on the secondary private market.
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Today's IPO could price the social network at more than $100 billion. Here's how you can try to emulate that success.
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I’m fond of saying that I look for entrepreneurs that have a chip on their shoulder. That they have something to prove. That they’re not afraid to stick their noses up to the establishment...
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Guest post by Jim Manzi, founder and Chairman of Applied Predictive Technologies, and the author of…
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Newfoundland, NWT also make impressive gains on resource wealth
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A generation is a terrible thing to lose
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If the stock pops 35%, Facebook's market cap will eclipse JP Morgan, making it more valuable than any bank in the United States.
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Not the easiest, but the quickest: Don't demand authority. Eagerly take responsibility. Relentlessly give credit.
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CEO Jamie Dimon can no longer play down the situation as bank faces loss of an entire quarters earnings
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Sales of soft drinks are falling in the United States. But don't start writing the industry's obituary yet.
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Are you hoping an angel investor will pump big money into your business in exchange for a tiny sliver of equity ownership? If you think that will fly, see...
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Government regulations that have slowed the market are seen as risky by many economists
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My last HBR blog post, How to Close a Sales Call, reviewed sales call closing techniques. Now let's analyze whether or not you are a natural born closer...
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You want to start a business. So you need a plan, right? No. Not really...