R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
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10 Things Only Lousy Managers Say
God bless the bad managers we’ve struggled under, those toads and zombies who taught us so many valuable leadership lessons (all lessons of the How Not to Lead variety). We still remember those managers years later, with their tempers, idiosyncracies and neuroses.
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17 Successful Entrepreneurs Share Their Best Productivity Hacks
RICHARD FELONI STRATEGY MAR. 19, 2014, 1:17 AM
Starting and maintaining a small business takes an exceptional amount of work, and time is a precious commodity. That’s why most successful entrepreneurs have developed a few tricks along the way to increase their productivity and effectiveness.
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7 Philosophies That Have Made Apple Designer Jony Ive A Legend
DRAKE BAER STRATEGY MAR. 18, 2014, 11:30 PM
Sir Jony Ive has led Apple’s design team since 1996. Along the way, he’s become a living legend in the design world, dreaming up the candy-colored iMac, the music industry-disrupting iPod, and the world-changing iPhone — to name a few of the products that earned him his knighthood.
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Gorgeous Maps Of The World Made With Iconic Local Foods
HARRISON JACOBS THE LIFE MAR. 18, 2014, 11:35 PM
China is made up of various types of noodles.
New Zealand photographer Henry Hargreaves has always liked to play with his food. In his newest collaboration with food stylist Caitlin Levin and typographer Sarit Melmed, Hargreaves takes playing with food to another level by creating maps that use the iconic foods of the countries and continents that they depict.
Before he was a photographer, Hargreaves worked in the food industry and found himself fascinated by how what people ordered reflected their personality. In many ways, Food Maps similarly reflects how what we eat connects with who we are.
Hargreaves, Levin, and Melmed shared some of their playful maps with us here, but you can see more of Hargreaves and Levin’s work at their website. Note that each map is made using real food.
France is made out of bread and cheese.
The United States is made out of different types of corn and corn products.
Japan is made out of different types of seaweed.
Australia is made from “shrimp on the barbie,” a traditional Christmas food.
Africa is made of bananas and plantains.
India is, of course, made of spices.
The United Kingdom and Ireland are made out of biscuits.
South America is made up of citrus fruits, such as lemons, limes, oranges, and grapefruits.
New Zealand, Hargreaves’ home country, is constructed out of kiwis. Though not native to the country, they have been hugely popular in the country since they were first introduced in the early 1900s.
Similarly, while tomatoes are not native to Italy (they actually come from South America), they have since become central to Italian cuisine.
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CHART OF THE DAY: A Breakdown Of S&P 500 Company Costs Since 1994
SAM RO MARKETS MAR. 18, 2014, 11:27 PM
Corporate profit margins are right at record highs.
Coming out of the financial crisis, fattening profit margins have helped corporate profits surge despite lackluster revenue growth.
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Coming Soon, Maybe: ‘Knowledge Pills’ That You Eat To Automatically Learn Anything
DYLAN LOVE TECH MAR. 19, 2014, 1:25 AM
Nicholas Negroponte, founder of the MIT Media Lab, appeared on stage in Vancouver at TED’s 30th anniversary event last night and made a number of predictions about what technology will do over the next 30 years. Via Ars Technica, here’s his most startling one:
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How A Powerful Mathematical Principle Spelled Doom For Absurdly Large Centipedes
ANDY KIERSZ SCIENCE MAR. 19, 2014, 2:27 AM
One of the great things about mathematics is its ability to bring together apparently completely unrelated phenomena, and explain them all with the same simple concept. It turns out that a very basic mathematical idea — power laws — describes the economics of pizza, limitations on the sizes of insects, income inequality, and countless other things.
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Lululemon Has Entered Completely New Territory With A New Clothing Line
HAYLEY PETERSON RETAIL MAR. 19, 2014, 4:37 AM
This $198 dress is part of Lululemon’s new clothing line, &Go.
Lululemon has launched a brand new line of casual clothes for outside the yoga studio that includes sundresses, pants and tank tops.
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No easy answers in key leases standard debate
BY KEN TYSIAC
MARCH 18, 2014
FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) are struggling to find common ground in their efforts to create a converged standard for financial reporting on leases.
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12 Things Successful People Do In The First Hour Of The Workday
JACQUELYN SMITH CAREERS MAR. 19, 2014, 9:00 PM
The first hour of the workday is critical, since it can impact your productivity level and mindset for the rest of the day.
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March 18, 2014 5:45 pm
Regulations threaten S Korea’s gaming industry
By Song Jung-a in Seoul
Kim Jin-woo, a high school student in Incheon, South Korea, used to play online games like League of Legend, Fifa Online 3 and Sudden Attack for up to 10 hours a day in smoke-filled internet cafés, having instant noodles when hungry or sometimes even skipping meals.
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March 18, 2014 6:58 pm
Asos suffers growing pains as costs rise
By Duncan Robinson
On Thursday night, Asos chief executive Nick Robertson stood in front of the retail world’s glitterati and accepted a gong for retail leader of the year at a black-tie do in a swanky hotel on Park Lane.
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March 18, 2014 11:02 pm
Supermarkets find move into banking difficult
By Emma Dunkley
It’s not just the grocery market facing troubles, as supermarkets trying to establish retail banks are finding out.
Sainsbury’s, which has reported its first fall in sales for nine years, was the inaugural retailer to launch a bank in the UK, as part of a joint venture with the Bank of Scotland, now Lloyds Banking Group.
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March 19, 2014 12:29 pm
Geely warns of growing international pressure on Chinese brands
By Tom Mitchell in Beijing
One of China’s most successful private car companies has warned that “tremendous cost pressure” is building on already flagging domestic auto brands, and also predicted difficulties overseas as political turmoil in Ukraine and Egypt affect two of its biggest export markets.
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March 18, 2014 5:35 pm
Shell bundles up lossmakers to achieve turnround
By Ed Crooks in New York
Royal Dutch Shell has reorganised its lossmaking American shale gas and oil operations into a single business in an attempt to turn around their performance, the company has said.
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March 19, 2014 5:11 am
Samsonite confident worst of China’s luxury crackdown is past
By Jennifer Hughes in Hong Kong
The worst of China’s luxury crackdown has passed, according to Samsonite, the premium luggage maker that warned last year that Beijing’s austerity drive was hurting its high-end sales in the country.
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March 19, 2014 8:58 am
India’s Common Man party oozes charisma on its poll mission
By Amy Kazmin in Bhopal, India
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March 19, 2014 6:40 am
Frustrations over China increase at US companies
By Tom Mitchell in Beijing
Almost 80 per cent of US companies participating in an annual survey reported that their China revenues had “increased slightly” or were in decline over the past year, as frustrations mount over everything from government investigations to internet censorship.
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March 19, 2014 11:35 am
US Pacific Fleet commander warns Asia it risks Crimea-like crisis
By Ben Bland in Jakarta
The commander of the US Pacific Fleet has hit out at China’s “revanchist tendencies” and warned that Asia-Pacific nations must forsake “unilateral actions and inflammatory rhetoric” or risk stumbling into a Crimea-like crisis that would damage the global economy.
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March 19, 2014 8:10 am
S Korea regulators launch probe into China banks’ operations
By Song Jung-a and Simon Mundy in Seoul
South Korean financial authorities have launched an inspection of three Chinese banks’ operations in the country, amid worries about booming demand for renminbi-denominated investment products.
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March 19, 2014 12:20 pm
Chicago confronts dirty bonanza of Canadian tar sand boom
By Neil Munshi in Chicago
A bulldozer rumbles over a mountain of fine black powder amid the abandoned shells of long-shuttered steel mills in a poor neighbourhood on the far southeast side of Chicago.
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March 18, 2014 3:39 pm
Freedom is not having to stoop to sycophancy
By Luke Johnson
Being phoney, a requirement for climbing the greasy pole, is corrosive and bad for one’s health
Possibly the best thing about working for oneself is that you don’t have to do any arse-kissing.
Now obviously that is not entirely true, because there are always some people to whom you have to grovel – bankers, investors, regulators, even customers. But, generally speaking, the self-employed are required to tolerate and dispense considerably less insincere bullshit than is the norm within big organisations.
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March 19, 2014 7:05 am
China’s financial distress turns all too visible
By George Magnus
Country’s economic change will have deflationary consequences
Investors have a lot to worry about without cause to fret about China, but now they have that too. Trend growth is slowing down, and markets have been shaken up by the actions of the People’s Bank of China (PBoC), which is trying to tame a virulent credit boom.
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Big Bang: Einstein’s relativity theory backed by new-wave discovery
March 19, 2014
Nicky Phillips
Science Editor
A telescope at the South Pole recently discovered gravity waves dating back to the moment of the Big Bang. Science columnist Peter Spinks discusses the findings with astrophysicist Professor Karl Glazebrook.
In the first moment following the Big Bang, scientists believe the universe got very big, very quickly.
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Google Unveils Software for Smartwatches-to-Be
By BRIAN X. CHEN
The interface of Android Wear, a version of Google’s mobile operating system for wearable devices, was designed to be “glanceable,” said Alex Faaborg, an Android designer, in a video promoting the software system.
Google is taking its fight with Apple to the wristwatch.
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March 18, 2014 7:56 pm
Turkey: The Erdogan-Gulen showdown
By FT reporters
FT reporters profile two men locked in conflict that threatens legitimacy of country’s government
Fethullah Gulen: the exiled preacher
At the beginning of the year the Turkish government appeared to be starting a run on the country’s biggest Islamist bank, writes Daniel Dombey Institutions such as Turkish Airlines, 49 per cent state-owned, began to withdraw their deposits from Bank Asya, founded by the followers of the preacher Fethullah Gulen
. Within days, hundreds of millions of dollars left the bank.
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Investors must collaborate to innovate
Posted By AMANDA WHITE On 19/03/2014 @ 12:13 pm In ANALYSIS | No Comments
Institutional investors are sheltered by competition, which in some instances can be beneficial, but it also means they are shielded from competitive forces that drive innovation. A new paper by Gordon Clark and Ashby Monk, looks at why the current model of either insourcing or outsourcing investment management doesn’t allow for innovation, and the models of cooperation and collaboration that can change that.
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Brazil’s Debt-Laden Firms Try to Stay Afloat
Some Ethanol, Mining Companies Are Under Stress
EMILY GLAZER And LUCIANA MAGALHAES
March 18, 2014 6:38 p.m. ET
Brazil weathered its largest-ever bankruptcy filing late last year, but there may be more to come for the embattled South American nation.
As its economy weakens and investor confidence flags, a number of firms that loaded up on debt during the nation’s boom years are poised to follow companies controlled by Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista into bankruptcy protection, according to investors who specialize in distressed debt, bankers and restructuring professionals.
To be sure, nothing on the scale of Mr. Batista´s corporate collapse is expected.
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Stress Tests Won’t Prevent the Next Financial Crisis
Expected losses under invented scenarios tell us little about risk and reality.
ROSA M. ABRANTES-METZ
March 18, 2014 6:58 p.m. ET
On March 26, the Federal Reserve will release the results of the “stress tests” it conducted on the nation’s 30 largest banks. The findings will purportedly reveal how well a bank can withstand a financial crisis, but the Fed’s decision to implement more complex stress tests doesn’t address what caused the financial crisis of 2008.
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March 18, 2014, 4:19 PM ET
Rule Makers Still Split on Lease Accounting
EMILY CHASAN
Senior Editor
U.S. and international rule makers remained divided Tuesday in the first of two days of meetings aimed at resolving differences on lease accounting.
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