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Three Headwinds for Facebook's IPO

Harvard Business Review

While this is a surmountable problem, it puts the media company in a very different position than that of Google in 2004 - the company that Facebook is most often compared against. Over the past couple of years, I've become close with a handful of web product managers. Venture investors look for home runs.

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Connecting To Happiness: A Single Model For Leadership Excellence

Terry Starbucker

You can imagine this specific application of the model wouldn’t work for certain other constituencies – like investors or executive management, for example ( I often did imagine the reception I’d get if I drew a smiley face in the boardroom, but alas, I never tried it ). happiness). But the model itself still works for them too.

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