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Company leaders with motherly traits can help employees develop into the best they can be in their field.

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Are your meetings lacking focus? Learn the art of running an efficient meeting using these five tips.

News updates all day from your Fast Company editors. The Federal Trade Commission has approached both Google and Twitter concerning Facebook 's $1 billion deal to purchase social photo-sharer company Instagram. According to a source speaking to Reuters, it's not known exactly what details the FTC is curious about, but it was rumored that both these other companies and possibly others were interested in bidding for Instagram--itself growing at a swift rate and thus rapidly increasing in value--which caused Facebook's CEO to move very swiftly and conclude the deal in private without his board's full knowledge

That's the plan, says CEO Andrew Mason.

The founder of Second Life, Philip Rosedale, shares his strategies for sparking employee passion about your company. Step one: Introduce the "LoveMachine." Philip Rosedale is strikingly charasmatic in person—perhaps surprisingly so, considering he's best known as the man behind a virtual world in which humans only interact through flying avatars

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Stop giving it away! We asked successful young entrepreneurs to brainstorm creative ways that small businesses can spread word and boost sales without resorting to the likes of daily deals sites. The Young Entrepreneur Council asked 11 successful young entrepreneurs to share a creative way to market a business without resorting to daily deal sites

Freelancers (at least the good ones) have their pick of projects, and you have to work hard to keep them engaged. Here are a few tricks of the trade.

Give yourself a gift this Mother's Day: more time. These tools can help

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Keep these simple facts in mind to build solid, long-term relationships with your customers.

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Should we be bothered by an image of a mother breastfeeding her 3-year-old son?