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What You Can Learn from Ted Leonsis' Life List

Next Level Blog

  He was really busy with AOL and didn’t feel the time was right and passed.    He had never sold AOL stock before but had to in order to fund the Caps deal. .    He had never sold AOL stock before but had to in order to fund the Caps deal. Go one on one with Michael Jordan.

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Why Facebook Should Worry About Tencent

Harvard Business Review

Tencent’s mobile messaging service, WeChat (known as Weixin in China), has over 300 million users worldwide, and standalone, it is already valued at around $30 billion compared to WhatsApp’s $19 billion price-tag. The Chinese giant also owns QQ, an instant messaging program used on PCs, which had over 818 million users last year.

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When Strategy Fails the Logic Test

Harvard Business Review

I pretty much knew that the reaction to my last blog analyzing the flawed logic of the AOL-Time Warner merger would elicit comments blasting me for using 20-20 hindsight. Tags: Boards Mergers & Acquisitions Strategy. However, being right was not the point. It is a dangerous trap in strategy and in life.