What Keeps CEOs Up at Night

Mar 11, 2014

What Keeps CEOs Up at Night

NOREENA HERTZ: What  are the top five issues that every CEO faces these days?

1. Technology is proving to be the game changer in industry after industry. CEOs need, to quote Wayne Gretsky, “to see where the puck is going and get there first.” Read more of this post

In business book reporting, it’s all Jim Collins, it’s the story of victory, it’s success bias over and over again. It tends to be peacetime-you’ve defeated the competition, you have the highest margins, the highest multiple

Why Ben Horowitz doesn’t like hiring rich people

By Max Nisen @MaxNisen 5 hours ago

Andreessen Horowitz is one of the largest and most prestigious venture capital firms in the world. With more than $2 billion in assets under management, it has invested in dozens of successful companies including Facebook, Groupon, Zynga, Twitter, and Jawbone. Its founding partners are wise enough to assess what they learned along the way to success. Read more of this post

Surfing champion Layne Beachley on knowing when to quit and bouncing back from failure

Caitlin Fitzsimmons Online editor

Surfing champion Layne Beachley on knowing when to quit and bouncing back from failure

Published 10 March 2014 13:01, Updated 11 March 2014 14:11

Layne Beachley started surfing at the quiet end of Manly Beach in Sydney as a four-year-old in the 1970s. By age 20 she was ranked sixth in the world and she went on to win seven world championships in surfing, six of them consecutive. Read more of this post

Equations Are Art inside a Mathematician’s Brain; Euler’s Identity, which relates the three fundamental constants e, pi and i, was rated the most beautiful of a set of 60 equations by mathematicians

Equations Are Art inside a Mathematician’s Brain

A brain area associated with emotional reactions to beauty activates when mathematicians view especially pleasing formulas
Mar 4, 2014 |By Clara Moskowitz

Euler’s Identity, which relates the three fundamental constants e, pi and i, was rated the most beautiful of a set of 60 equations by mathematicians.  Read more of this post

Steve Smith has come a long way, from family market stall to £750m listing for recession darling with more than 500 stores

As Poundland IPO approaches, founder says: ‘I’m very proud, it’s my baby’

Poundland has come a long way, from Steve Smith’s family market stall to a £750m listing for a recession darling with more than 500 stores

Zoe Wood

The Guardian, Monday 10 March 2014 17.50 GMT

Steve Smith, founder of Poundland: ‘I know people who were too greedy and lost it all.’ Photograph: David Sillitoe for the Guardian Read more of this post

Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

Winning as a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy

by William Barnett  |   1:00 PM March 10, 2014

The maid-of-honor was consoling the bride, desperately trying to keep her makeup from liquefying. The yacht was perfect, of course, and most of the bridesmaids were there as planned. So what was the problem? No pictures. The photographer was a no-show. Well, the bride would make sure that he never got another high-profile job. And to think, all the best families had raved about his genius. Read more of this post

How to Achieve Growth in a Lean Europe: Lessons on winning in a slow market

February 11, 2014 / Spring 2014 / Issue 74

How to Achieve Growth in a Lean Europe

Lessons on winning in a slow market.

by Richard Rawlinson

Executives of consumer products and retail companies in Europe responded to the recent global economic crisis the best way they knew how. As demand shrank, they cut costs across the board. And initially, these measures worked: Between 2009 and 2012, even as revenues fell, many companies posted increased earnings and relatively strong stock market performance. But today this strategy has run out of steam. There’s only so much excess to remove and overhead to reduce. Read more of this post

I Don’t Distinguish Between Traditional and Modern Practices: Rahul Bajaj, patriarch of the Bajaj Group

I Don’t Distinguish Between Traditional and Modern Practices: Rahul Bajaj

by Ashish K Mishra | Mar 11, 2014

There’s only good and bad management, says Rahul Bajaj

He isn’t the most traditional or conservative face of the Marwari community but Rahul Bajaj, grandson of Jamnalal Bajaj and patriarch of the Bajaj Group, is certainly among its most influential.  Read more of this post

9 Things Successful People Do Right Before Bed

9 Things Successful People Do Right Before Bed

JACQUELYN SMITH CAREERS  MAR. 11, 2014, 2:18 AM

The very last thing you do before bed tends to have a significant impact on your mood and energy level the following day, since it often determines how well and how much you sleep. Read more of this post

The Story Of How Marc Andreessen Told Ben Horowitz ‘F- You’ – And Then They Became Lifelong Partners

The Story Of How Marc Andreessen Told Ben Horowitz ‘F— You’ — And Then They Became Lifelong Partners

NICHOLAS CARLSON TECH  MAR. 11, 2014, 3:42 AM

Back when he was still running Netscape in the 1990s, Marc Andreessen hired an executive named Ben Horowitz.

After Microsoft announced that it would bundle its browser with Windows 95, Andreessen, Horowitz, and another guy named Mike Homer spent months coming up with a counter-move. Read more of this post

Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn’t Sure; Tools like Lumosity promise to stimulate your mind, though researchers question how much they improve cognitive performance

MARCH 10, 2014, 7:39 PM  Comment

Do Brain Workouts Work? Science Isn’t Sure

By TARA PARKER-POPE

For a $14.95 monthly membership, the website Lumosity promises to “train” your brain with games designed to stave off mental decline. Users view a quick succession of bird images and numbers to test attention span, for instance, or match increasingly complex tile patterns to challenge memory. Read more of this post