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Life

• The way billionaire Warren Buffett defines success has nothing to do with money:  “I measure success by how many people love me.”’: BI
• One of America’s most beloved authors shares a simple strategy for overcoming adversity; Bravery means coming to terms with your emotional experience — even if it’s uncomfortable. BI
• Yogi Berra, an American story; The Extraordinary Journey of Yogi Berra: In 90 years, the Yankee legend lived many lives: war veteran, humorist, manager and baseball’s greatest catcher; Yogi and the Three Bears: Applying baseball great Yogi Berra’s wit and wisdom to global markets; Yogi Berra, linguistic savant; U.S. Baseball Legend Yogi Berra Dies; Hall of Fame catcher renowned for his malapropisms dies aged 90: WaPo, WSJ, FP, Economist, WSJ
• ‘Phishing for Phools’: A Q&A With George Akerlof and Robert Shiller; The Nobel laureates discuss their new book and explain why tricksters are an integral part of capitalist economies: WSJ
• Keeping Things Simple and Tuning out Folly: Farnam
•  William McKnight: The Basic Rule of Management that Propelled 3M; “If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give the people the room they need.”: Farnam
• Why Good People Do Bad Things: A Conversation With My Daughter: SN
• Is this Australia’s youngest entrepreneur? She’s barely out of primary school but Bella Tipping has come up with an ingenious idea turning travel on its head.: TheAge
• The Four Desires Driving All Human Behavior: Bertrand Russell’s Magnificent Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech; “Nothing in the world is more exciting than a moment of sudden discovery or invention, and many more people are capable of experiencing such moments than is sometimes thought.”BP
• Michael Faraday on Mental Discipline and How to Cure Our Propensity for Self-Deception: BP
• Happy Birthday, William Faulkner: The Beloved Writer on Beginner’s Mind and the Mystique of the Muse; BP
• Big Magic: Elizabeth Gilbert on Creative Courage and the Art of Living in a State of Uninterrupted Marvel: BP
• Exceptional Leaders Create An Awareness Of Greatness In The Workplace: Forbes
• How Frank Gehry Became Frank Gehry: Bloomberg
• How to Get SuperBetter: longreads
• The best entrepreneurs are like brilliant artists in these four ways: qz
• King of Sugar shares pearls of wisdom; Malaysian entrepreneur Robert Kuok on his trading philosophy: FT
• The striking partnership of Alex Ferguson and Michael Moritz; What makes a leader? Football legend Alex Ferguson and venture capitalist Michael Moritz share their secrets: FT
• Barbara Walters on How to Be There for the Newly Bereaved and Heartbroken; “we are more and more driven to depend on one another’s sympathy and friendship in order to survive emotionally.”: BP
• Tony Robbins teaches this management technique to the executives he coaches: BI
• This is the skill that determines your child’s future employability: qz
• 20 cognitive biases that screw up your decisions: BI
• New Neuroscience Reveals 4 Rituals That Will Make You Happy: Barker
• Behavioral Economics: Useful Even If Not New: Bloomberg
• A former Simon & Schuster owner swore by this simple strategy for cutting the length of meetings by 75%: BI
• A Conversation with Luigi Zingales: medium
• Good managers know when to let their staff fail to ensure they succeed in long run: SCMP
• How do academic prodigies spend their time and why does that matter?: Conversation
• Rival Rothschilds at war over family name: Telegraph
• The Case Against Cover Letters: Nobody reads them, and writing one can only hurt you.: Bloomberg
• The day Steve Jobs dissed me in a keynote speech: BI
• How to deliver economic justice to the deprived lot? BT
• Tax Evasion’s Bite, From the Ancient World to Modern Days: WSJ
• What to do if you forget someone’s name immediately after meeting them: BI
• The Aesthetic Instinct: Millennia before Picasso, humans crafted spectacularly refined forms. Were they true artists, or something less? WSJ
• The Makers of American Strategy: The ‘scientists’ find the ‘artists’ amoral and defeatist; the artists see the scientists as doctrinaire and utopian. WSJ
•  The Middle-Class Squeeze: If Western countries want to disprove the dire forecasts of Karl Marx, we must think creatively about how to make the middle class more prosperous and secure: WSJ
• Would Seth Klarman Buy His Own Book? A hedge fund billionaire, a $1,600 hardcover, and the cult of value investing. ai-CIO
•  Better Living Through Social Science Research; “Friend & Foe” demonstrates the value of making technical research understandable to the uninitiated. NYT
• Some advice from Jeff Bezos: people who were right a lot of the time were people who often changed their minds.: medium
• The science behind why inspirational quotes motivate us: Fastco
• A Self-Compassion Exercise: Thebookoflife
• How A Quiet, Failed Comic Book Artist Conquered Hollywood’s Nightlife Scene; Franki Chan was once unemployed and broke. Today, his IHEARTCOMIX empire works with the likes of The Rolling Stones and Skrillex. Fastco
• Collaborating with Creative Peers: HBR
• 3 Things Managers Should Be Doing Every Day: HBR
• Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works: HBR
• Picasso, the sculptor: Master of surprises; Why the Spanish artist was as inspiring a sculptor as he was a painter: Economist
• Unclouded vision: Forecasting is a talent. Luckily it can be learned: Economist
• How chief executives deal with cancer: Goldman Sachs’s boss becomes the latest to carry on while unwell: Economist
• The new science of happiness has its roots in an ancient art; Contentment stems not from material wealth but from relationships: FT
• Poverty: Vulnerable to change; More than 1bn people still live on less than $1.25 a day and the drive to reduce the world’s poor looks difficult to maintain: FT
• How Music Soothes the Troubled Soul; From the strife in Selma to the tension of the Cold War, a personal account of the power of music.: WSJ
• How to master the fine art of the follow-up: FastCo
• 3 Tricks to Overcoming “The Expert’s Paradox” as a Presenter: Slideshare
• The Reclamation of Strategy: Strategy&
• The future of language: WaPo
• Daniel Pink’s Required Reading: Strategy&
• Meritocracy without the Numbers: Strategy&
• Aspire to be a technopreneur, rather than a doctor or lawyer: TODAY
• How one woman went from making $11 an hour to building a business that earns nearly $7 million a year: BI
• The CEO who knowingly sold tainted peanuts that killed 9 people got 28 years in prison: BI
• Tim Cook personally called the teenager who says an Apple Watch saved his life and offered him an internship at Apple: BI
• Tech titles dominate shortlist for FT business book of the year: FT
• Billionaire Marc Benioff has a foolproof tip for giving great presentations: BI
• 5 strategies for conquering fear and anxiety, from one of the most successful self-help authors in history: BI
• Roche scion André Hoffman on benefits of family ownership: FT
• Tod’s tycoon Diego Della Valle targets Italian philanthropy: FT
• Observe, Question, Reinvent: Lessons For Seeing Clearly From George Carlin: FastCo
• Spotlight shone on David Teoh, TPG’s famously private CEO; A rare look at the secretive billionaire behind the operation of one in every four Australian internet connections.  TheAge
• Jan Singer of Spanx: Using Votes to Guide a Group;  Singer, chief executive of Spanx, says one way she gives direction to conversation about an issue is by asking a group to vote on it.: NYT
• Corporate scandals and how (not) to handle them; After a disastrous week for VW, we look back at 30 years of business disasters and their cost in lives, money and reputations: Guardian
• Can Entrepreneurs Succeed In Today’s On-Demand World?: Techcrunch

Books

• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction: Amazon
• Insight Out: Get Ideas Out of Your Head and Into the World : Amazon
• Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times : Amazon
• Grit to Great: How Perseverance, Passion, and Pluck Take You from Ordinary to Extraordinary: Amazon
• Collaborative Intelligence: Thinking with People Who Think Differently: Amazon
• Friend & Foe: When to Cooperate, When to Compete, and How to Succeed at Both: Amazon
• What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential: Amazon
• What You Really Need to Lead: The Power of Thinking and Acting Like an Owner: Amazon

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