The most ridiculous ideas that eventually became successful startups; How to move through the four stages of life: Stage One: The mimicry; Stage Two: Self-discovery; Stage Three: Committment; Stage Four: Legacy; How a 32-year-old who never expected to make any money now earns up to $75,000 a month – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Jun (Fri)

June 19, 2015 Leave a comment

Life

  • The most ridiculous ideas that eventually became successful startups: e27
  • How to move through the four stages of life: Stage One: The mimicry; Stage Two: Self-discovery; Stage Three: Committment; Stage Four: Legacy: Quartz
  • How a 32-year-old who never expected to make any money now earns up to $75,000 a month: BI
  • Avoid a culture of clock-watchers: 5 ways to keep your staff motivated: BRW
  • Vote: Which woman should be shown on the new $10 bill?: Fortune
  • 11 European billionaires who never went to university: BI
  • One of comedy’s most powerful people was brutally rejected by his childhood hero – and it changed his career: BI
  • Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills ‘Really Excited’ About a Woman on the $10: Time
  • Read a 9-Year-Old’s Letter to Obama About Putting a Woman on U.S. Currency – and His Response: Time
  • ‘Inside Out’ Review: Pixar’s Brilliant Life of the Mind; Pixar racks up another masterpiece with a psycho-comical take on the feelings that swirl inside a young heroine’s head: WSJ
  • 5 surprising lessons a psychologist learned from interviewing killers for 20 years: BI
  • How the lessons of Waterloo still echo through today’s economy; Free trade, balanced budgets and insider trading appear high on the agenda in both 1815 and 2015: telegraph

Read more of this post

Filed under Daily Insight

Read a 9-Year-Old’s Letter to Obama About Putting a Woman on U.S. Currency — and His Response

June 19, 2015 Leave a comment

http://time.com/3765227/woman-us-currency-obama-letter/

Read a 9-Year-Old’s Letter to Obama About Putting a Woman on U.S. Currency — and His Response

“Why don’t women have coins or dollar bills with their faces on it?”

The little girl who asked Obama last year why there aren’t any women on U.S. bills has finally gotten a letter back from the President — and she’s invited to the annual White House Easter Egg Roll. President Obama made waves last year when he mentioned he had received a letter from a little girl asking him to put some women on U.S. currency, which he called a “pretty good idea.” That letter was from Sofia, a Massachusetts girl who was just finishing third grade at the time. “I was studying Ann Hutchinson, who stood up for women’s rights,” she says. “Almost everyone who chose a boy, on their poster they had pictures of different dollar bills or coins with their person on it. So I noticed, why don’t women have coins or dollar bills with their faces on it?” Sofia, now 9, knew immediately what she had to do. “I just came home from school and said, ‘I need to write to the president.’” Sofia’s mother provided her letter exclusively to TIME:

SofiaImage courtesy of Kim B., Sofia’s mother

For a while, Sofia didn’t hear anything back from the President. She says she “sort of forgot about it” until her dad showed her the President had mentioned her letter in a speech. “I was really excited about it, because I thought that maybe it would actually happen,” she says. In the months since Sofia wrote to Obama, a campaign to put a woman on the $20 bill has gone viral. The W20 movement is hosting an online poll so the public can vote on which woman should replace Andrew Jackson. The group plans to petition Obama and the Treasury Secretary to make it happen. Almost 220,000 people have voted in the online poll so far. And Sofia, who is now in fourth grade, is a junior ambassador for the campaign. Even though she’s a longtime fan of Ann Hutchinson, Sofia wants to see Rosa Parks on the $20. “What she did was really important,” she says. “If it wasn’t for her, we’d still be segregated today.” She got her whole class to vote in the online poll, and her third grade teacher got her class to vote as well. Last month, Sofia finally got a personalized letter back from the President, along with an invitation to attend this year’s White House Easter Egg Roll. Here’s what President Obama wrote to her:

Obama

Image courtesy of Kim B., Sofia’s mother Read more of this post

Filed under Life

The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Paperback; How toy trains inspired Charles Correa to become India’s greatest contemporary architect; How Ford CEO Alan Mullaly turned a broken company into the industry’s comeback kid; A crucial part of values-based leadership, however, is becoming a “best citizen.” This recognizes the responsibility to make a difference in the world – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Jun (Thurs)

June 19, 2015 Leave a comment

Life

  •  How toy trains inspired Charles Correa to become India’s greatest contemporary architect: Quartz
  • How Ford CEO Alan Mullaly turned a broken company into the industry’s comeback kid;  A crucial part of values-based leadership, however, is becoming a “best citizen.” This recognizes the responsibility to make a difference in the world. Quartz
  • The real secret to a more productive brain: Find the Motivation. Invest in the tools. Learn with others. BRW
  • 3 powerful lessons from a classic book that Tony Robbins always recommends: BI
  • Food Network star Ina Garten on the power of saying ‘no’: BI
  • Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.” Until recently, the same could be said for the factory model of education: Techcrunch
  • On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, remember the dark side of history: Quartz
  • How to word an invoice so it gets paid on time, and other hacks from ‘nudge’ economics: BRW
  • The Last Mover Advantage: techcrunch
  • Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human: HBR
  • Conquering Digital Distraction: HBR
  • Solving Complex Social Problems Through Collaboration: HBR
  • Remembering the legendary Kirk Kerkorian: ‘He paved the way for the modern activist’: FP
  • Should Managers Read Academic Articles?: Forbes
  • Mind the 100-Year Gap in Education; It will take another 100 years for developing countries to reach the levels of developed nations unless drastic measures are taken: Bloomberg
  • The Myth of Perfect Information: SamMcNerney
  • How Maria Sharapova Became the World’s Wealthiest Female Athlete: Bloomberg

Books

  • The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery: Amazon
  • The Four Things That Matter Most – 10th Anniversary Edition: A Book About Living: Amazon
  • As a Man Thinketh: Amazon
  • Your summer reading list: 70+ book picks from TED speakers and attendees: TED

Read more of this post

Filed under Daily Insight

%d bloggers like this: