Success Outside the Dress Code: The subtle cues that help nonconformists break from the pack and thrive; Power of sweatpants

Success Outside the Dress Code

The subtle cues that help nonconformists break from the pack and thrive; Power of sweatpants

SHIRLEY S. WANG

March 17, 2014 7:13 p.m. ET

Even though humans are wired to conform and be part of a group, being a nonconformist can sometimes increase a person’s status and perceived competency. Shirley Wang reports on Lunch Break. Photo: Videoblocks. Read more of this post

Wharton Names New Dean; Garrett, of Australian School of Business, to Succeed Robertson as Elite B-School Faces Challenges

Wharton Names New Dean

Garrett, of Australian School of Business, to Succeed Robertson as Elite B-School Faces Challenges

MELISSA KORN

Updated March 17, 2014 7:55 p.m. ET

The University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School surprised many with its choice for a new dean, as the elite business school fights to remain in the very highest echelon of M.B.A. programs. Read more of this post

Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, the Listerine fortune heiress, died at 103 years old; “She worked quietly behind the scenes for many years to support horticulture and the arts. She leaves behind a meaningful legacy.”

Rachel ‘Bunny’ Mellon, arts patron and confidante of Jackie Kennedy, dies at 103

View Photo Gallery — Kennedy confidante and arts patron Rachel ‘Bunny’ Mellon dies: Rachel “Bunny” Mellon, a close friend of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis who redesigned the White House Rose Garden, died at age 103. Read more of this post

Are we a nation of zombies? People forfeiting their identity to fit in with the corporate world

Are we a nation of zombies?

March 14, 2014

James Adonis is one of Australia’s best-known people-management thinkers

Walk through most workplaces and what you’re bound to see is sameness. Dull and robotic sameness – people forfeiting their identity to fit in with the corporate world. Read more of this post

The Art Of Self-Promotion: 6 Tips For Getting Your Work Discovered; guidelines for promoting your work without spamming

THE ART OF SELF-PROMOTION: 6 TIPS FOR GETTING YOUR WORK DISCOVERED

BY JESSICA GROSE

Writer and author Austin Kleon shares some guidelines for promoting your work without spamming from his new book, Show Your Work! 10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.

The subtitle of the writer and artist Austin Kleon’s new book, Show Your Work!, is “10 Ways to Share Your Creativity and Get Discovered.” But that subtitle could just as easily be, “How to Self-promote Without Being a Jerkface.” It’s an incredibly useful and compulsively readable short book about how to use social media and networking if you’re a creative person of any stripe. Read more of this post

Art of Accounting: Be a Sounding Board to Your Clients; Entrepreneurs are the most focused and determined people I know. But it is also lonely for many of them

Art of Accounting: Be a Sounding Board to Your Clients

MARCH 14, 2014

BY EDWARD MENDLOWITZ

Entrepreneurs are the brightest, most focused and determined people I know. But it is also lonely for many of them.

There are few people they can trust, and sometimes they just need a sounding board of someone who won’t pass judgment but might point out inconsistencies or illogical conclusions. That is a role for CPAs, and sometimes great things come out of it. Read more of this post

How to find the right co-founder: Right Click Capital’s Benjamin Chong

How to find the right co-founder: Right Click Capital’s Benjamin Chong

Published 17 March 2014 13:29, Updated 17 March 2014 13:40

Benjamin Chong

Building a startup requires hard work and perseverance. It’s difficult to do it alone and something, I suggest, you shouldn’t do alone. You need a cofounder with whom you can share the ups and downs of starting a business. Read more of this post

“In all probabilistic fields, like investing and gambling, the best performers dwell on process.”

Five Stinkin’ Feet

Posted on March 14, 2014

Robert Seawright

Investment Belief #5: Process Should Be Prioritized Over Outcomes

My first baseball memory is from October 16, 1962, the day after my sixth birthday, by which time I was already hooked on what was then the National Pastime. In those days, all World Series games were played during the day. So I hurried home from school on that Tuesday afternoon to turn on the (black-and-white) television and catch what I could of the seventh and deciding game of a great Series at the then-new Candlestick Park in San Francisco between the Giants and the New York Yankees. Read more of this post

When Giovanni Castiglioni’s father died in 2010 he left a massive legacy – and the seemingly impossible job of turning round the legendary motorbike brand MV Agusta. In just three years, Giovanni has done it

THE REMARKABLE RETURN OF MV AGUSTA

ARTICLE | 14 MARCH, 2014 03:27 PM | BY JEREMY HAZLEHURST

It would be an exaggeration to say that Giovanni Castiglioni was born riding a motorbike, but only just. He got his first pushbike at the age of two and his first engine-powered bike when he was four. Now aged just 33, he is the CEO of MV Agusta, a legendary racing marque which he has turned from a moribund relic into a thriving concern. Just 18 months after his family re-took control of the business, sales have increased by 300% and are on an upward trend. Many have tried to revive MV Agusta, and all have failed – including Harley Davidson and Giovanni’s father Claudio. Many thought it was a poisoned chalice. But now it is winning a whole new generation of fans, and when Castiglioni talks about an IPO that would rival Ducati’s, he is taken seriously. How did he do it? And why? Read more of this post