Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 17 Apr (Fri) – A doctor who swallowed a petri dish of bacteria and won a Nobel Prize can teach you a valuable lesson about success. We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other
April 17, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- A doctor who swallowed a petri dish of bacteria and won a Nobel Prize can teach you a valuable lesson about success: BI
- Most of the world’s billionaires didn’t inherit their wealth – they earned it: BI
- Saying No: How Successful People Stay Productive: Farnam
- Seymour Schulich on Deals, Business, Decisions and Life: Farnam
- We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other: HBR
- Motivating staff with values, not red tape: BT
- Only 3% of family businesses make the fourth generation: here are 4 essentials to getting there: BRW
- Why We Need “Game of Thrones”; Series like “Game of Thrones” and “Downton Abbey,” like Balzac and Dickens before them, serve as a source of entertainment and fodder for debate. PS
- The Look of Love Is in the Dog’s Eyes; Dogs who trained a long gaze on their owners had elevated levels of oxytocin, a hormone produced in the brain that is associated with nurturing and : NYT
- Beyond Beanbags: A guide to what makes Google a great workplace: Forbes
- The power of making people ‘feel felt’; Mark Goulston, the psychiatrist and difficult conversations expert explains the power of making people ‘feel felt’: Forbes
- Workin’ 9 to 5 to make a livin. and every other minute on your startup; Many don’t have the luxury of quitting their day job to focus on their new business. Here three entrepreneurs explain how to juggle both: Guardian
- CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation: HBR
- The power of families: Dynasties; The enduring power of families in business and politics should trouble believers in meritocracy: Economist
- One Way to Get Unstuck and Move Up? All You Have to Do Is Ask; At software firm Salesforce, Leyla Seka found the confidence to ask for more responsibility: WSJ
- Happy birthday to Johnson’s dictionary: Economist
- Reforming Islam: A controversial new book says Islam must change in five important areas: Economist
- The music industry: Super fantasy; “What about relying on super fans to fund you more regularly?” : Economist
- A very British business: Some lessons from the success of Britain’s elite private schools: Economist
Bamboo Innovator 