“The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop.”; Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled the World – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 6 Aug (Thurs)

Life

  • “The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one’s curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop.”: BP
  • Here’s how Richard Branson’s quirky uncle has inspired some of the biggest business decisions he’s ever made: BI
  • 13 surprising ways your name affects your success: BI
  • Corporate threads behind Coats’ longevity; Concealed strengths that helped threadmaker adapt: FT
  • How Grohe finds growth through innovation: McKinsey
  • Universities should not become glorified vocational training colleges: SCMP
  • Activist Investors Are Shaking Up Business Schools, Too; Investors like William Ackman and Daniel Loeb are amassing influence-and fans-in M.B.A. programs: WSJ
  • Scientists say social intelligence builds in your 30s and peaks in your 40s: BI
  • Statistics must be improved but also used with more caution:FT
  • How Innovation Is Helping Emerging Multinationals to Race Ahead: K@W
  • Why Companies Need Their Customers to ‘Love’ Them: K@W
  • Johanna Quandt, Billionaire Widow of BMW Car Mogul, Dies at 89: Bloomberg
  • Time to fix patents: Ideas fuel the economy. Today’s patent systems are a rotten way of rewarding them: Economist

Books

  • Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World: Amazon, LinkedIn

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