Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either; Seven intelligent fanatics from India; At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Jul (Fri)

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Life

  • Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either. Fortune
  • At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies; 6S = Seiri (Keep things organized), Seiton (Keep things available), Seiketsu (Keep yourself clean), Seiso (Keep things clean), Saho (Keep good manners), Shitsuke (Keep good discipline). Bloomberg
  • TED Before Bed: One mother’s nightly ritual with her son: TED
  • 9 TED Talks to inspire smart conversation: TED
  • Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career: BI
  • 13 things mentally strong people don’t do: BI
  • Reading their minds: Animal congnition is an ever-growing field: Economist

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Billionaire Charlie Munger’s favorite life hack can help anyone be more successful; Here’s what Jeff Bezos says he’s looking for in an Amazon show: “One way you can think about TV is you can say, ‘I want to make something that millions and millions of people are going to watch.’ If that’s your starting point, you paint yourself into a corner and you often end up with homogenized, uninteresting content. If you say, ‘Let’s hire the world’s greatest storytellers. Let’s encourage them to take risks,’ then you’re going to end up with a remarkable story, and remarkable stories always find an audience.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 Jul (Thurs)

July 17, 2015 Leave a comment

Life

  • Billionaire Charlie Munger’s favorite life hack can help anyone be more successful: BI
  • Here’s what Jeff Bezos says he’s looking for in an Amazon show: “One way you can think about TV is you can say, ‘I want to make something that millions and millions of people are going to watch.’ If that’s your starting point, you paint yourself into a corner and you often end up with homogenized, uninteresting content. If you say, ‘Let’s hire the world’s greatest storytellers. Let’s encourage them to take risks,’ then you’re going to end up with a remarkable story, and remarkable stories always find an audience.”: BI
  • 25 super-successful people share their best career advice for 20-somethings: BI
  • 5 habits visionary thinkers have in common: BI
  • July 15, 1838: Young Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address; Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.  BP
  • How a debate between two of Wall Street’s most powerful CEOs went completely off the rails; “the problems you had in ’07, where you had brand names on a lot of these housing things; but worse than that, they believe there is liquidity here”: BI
  • 3 ways flat management structures can kill your business; It’s not about choosing the trendiest flat organization to adopt. It’s about finding the one that works best for your company. FastCo
  • Growing beyond the core business: McKinsey
  • Diebold Grows Bold: The ATM maker is remaking itself into a services-driven company. An Interview with Christopher A. Chapman, SVP and CFO, Diebold. CFO
  • Trump Builds One Brand and Damages Another; His true gift is an ability to exploit other people’s emotions, even those whose response to him is revulsion. It’s the art and craft of a demagogue.  NYT
  • Here’s why Salma Hayek’s billionaire husband made her go back to work after having a baby: BI
  • A Case of Successful Failure: Strategy&

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