Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 21 Feb (Sat) – Richard Branson attributes some of his most successful companies to the art of note taking
February 21, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- Richard Branson attributes some of his most successful companies to the art of note taking: BI
- Jack and Suzy Welch on Business Today; The Welches on the problems with business, the state of global competition and their coming book on how to succeed: WSJ
- Religion’s Role in the History of Ideas: WSJ
- An Engineer Creates for Fun After a Lifetime of Workaday Rules; Seth Goldstein, 75, holds degrees in engineering and patents for biomedical innovations. But in retirement, he uses his engineering skills for whimsy and art. NYT
- Jack and Suzy Welch on Business Today; The Welches on the problems with business, the state of global competition and their coming book on how to succeed: WSJ
Books
- The Creator’s Code: The Six Essential Skills of Extraordinary Entrepreneurs : Amazon
Greater China
- Primeline Energy reaches out for respect: ‘Not all Chinese companies listed in Canada are bad’: FP
ASEAN
- Indonesia’s Corruption Fighters in the Fight of Their Lives: NYT
Macro
- IASB Member Sees Revenue Rule Delay As Inevitable: CFO
- Biggest Nordic Buyout Fund Sees “Asset Bubbles Wherever We Look”: Zerohedge
- Stanford dumps coal: why divestment doesn’t work; “You can’t subtract from a company by selling a share, it’s already committed capital, it’s just changing the ownership not the amount of capital. By definition you can’t have direct aggregate impact by divesting,” AW
- Middle Class, Undefined: How Purchasing Power Affects Perceptions of Wealth: WSJ
- Pension funds driven to take higher risks: FT
- The active fund management model is not fit for purpose; Only 19% of US equity fund managers beat Russell 1000 index of large stocks for the year: FT
- Middle Class, Undefined: How Purchasing Power Affects Perceptions of Wealth: WSJ
TMT
- Bill Gurley: FOMO (Fear of Missing Out) in the ‘Private IPO’ Market Is Fueling Valuations: WSJ
- Samsung Gear VR Review: A Shallow Dip Into the Virtual Pool: WSJ
- Can an App Be Too Successful? Ask ‘Trivia Crack’; Mobile game has topped the charts with user-generated questions, but now players gripe of a glut: WSJ
- Brand success in an era of Digital Darwinism; Companies adept at using digital tools along the consumer decision journey are gaining a sizable lead over competitors.: McKinsey
- Cash floods late-stage tech despite warnings: FT
- The New Rules Of Going Public: Techcrunch
- Taking over the world? Tech giants are blowing billions and achieving little: Telegraph
Consumer & Others