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The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity: 8 Timeless Strategies for Achieving Financial Success
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The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity: 8 Timeless Strategies for Achieving Financial Success

by Michael Justin Lee
July 2012
Beginner
224 pages
3h 50m
English
McGraw-Hill
Content preview from The Chinese Way to Wealth and Prosperity: 8 Timeless Strategies for Achieving Financial Success

CHAPTER THREEUNDERSTAND THE VALUE OF GUANXI

Has there ever been a phenomenon like Facebook? With all due credit to Apple, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon, the revolution that is Facebook has set the bar higher than it has ever been set before by a technology company. If Facebook were a high school student, it would surely get voted most popular in its graduating class as well as in all previous graduating classes.

Even mighty Microsoft needed 10 years to gain its first grand foothold. In contrast, Facebook, founded only in February 2004, already had more than 600 million users by early 2011. Now that’s rapid growth.

Such has been its clout that the protestors who participated in the popular uprisings in Egypt that toppled President Hosni Mubarak ...

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ISBN: 9780071788724