Why this VC who sold his last company for $3 billion asks this unusual interview question: “What did you learn from your mom?” “Basically I’m testing them to see, ‘How human are you ready to be with me?’ – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Oct (Sun)

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Life

  • Why this VC who sold his last company for $3 billion asks this unusual interview question: “What did you learn from your mom?” “Basically I’m testing them to see, ‘How human are you ready to be with me?’”: BI
  • Lars Dalgaard: Build Trust by Daring to Show That You’re Human: NYT
  • ‘What quality do you look for in a spouse? Do you look for beauty? Do you look for brains? Do you look for character? Do you look for honesty? Do you look for humor?’ No, no no,” added Buffett. “You want to marry the last-look for someone with low expectations”: Fortune
  • Why this CEO thinks a 6-figure salary isn’t always worth your time; If you only look at financial compensation, you might miss out on doing something you truly love: Fortune
  • Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work: NYT
  • Office Shows the Person: The assumption of authority brings out the leader’s inner world. It reveals whether the leader has undergone a process of honest self-discovery that allows for the productive application of power. Forbes
  • Girl, 3, takes care of bedridden mother in hospital: AsiaOne
  • Worry less, live more: Star
  • Why What You Learned in Preschool Is Crucial at Work: NYT

Books

  • Word Hero: A Fiendishly Clever Guide to Crafting the Lines that Get Laughs, Go Viral, and Live Forever : Amazon
  • Confessions of the Pricing Man: How Price Affects Everything : Amazon
  • Power Pricing: How Managing Price Transforms the Bottom Line : amazon
  • Manage for Profit, Not for Market Share: A Guide to Greater Profits in Highly Contested Markets: Amazon
  • Anxious: Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety: Amazon

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The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners; Hard Work Makes Children, and Families, Stronger; Think Like an Author, Not an Owner; Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15-17 Oct (Thurs-Sat)

October 18, 2015 Leave a comment

Life

  • Hard Work Makes Children, and Families, Stronger: NYT
  • The Best Leaders Are Constant Learners: HBR
  • Think Like an Author, Not an Owner; Oswald’s story teaches us that what is most valuable in an economy is not what authors make, but their ability to make it. The executives at Universal tried to extort Disney and Iwerks by holding one of their creations hostage. But this was a naïve move. HBR
  • Trailblazing Astronomer Vera Rubin on Obsessiveness, Minimizing Obstacles, and How the Thrill of Accidental Discovery Redeems the Terror of Uncertainty; Why all creative endeavor is a matter of “getting hung up on little interesting things.” BP
  • Nietzsche on the Journey of Becoming and What It Means to Be a Free Spirit; “.become master over yourself, master of your own good qualities. acquire power over your aye and no and learn to hold and withhold them in accordance with your higher aims: BP
  • The Top Ten Resilient Animals on Earth: KM
  • What They Don’t Teach You in Business School: AWCS
  • Head to head: Michelangelo and Raphael; Leibniz and Newton; Constable and Turner. Does every creative genius need a bitter rival?: Aeon
  • The Innovative Mindset Your Company Can’t Afford to Lose: HBR
  • How to Turn a Bad Day Around: HBR
  • Be Your Own Best Advocate: HBR
  • The Best Data Scientists Know How to Tell Stories: HBR
  • A Simple Formula for Changing Our Behavior: HBR
  • The fascinating science behind your tastes and preferences: qz
  • Is necessity really the mother of invention? 14 speakers at TED@IBM challenge this adage: TED
  • You’re a Great Man, Charles Schulz: The soulful wit of Schulz’s writing is framed by his spare art—blanks left for the eye and brain to fill. WSJ
  • Success depends on succession: KH
  • The billionaire founder of Sam Adams shares his top 4 productivity tips: BI
  • A worthy journey to rethink how, what, where and when we learn: TODAY
  • Education ‘needs rethink to focus on individual’; “Kids want to grow into vocations, professions and careers that can allow them to protect the ones they love, to walk through fire to save others, to cure the sick, to build cars, to fly to the moon, to understand Mother Nature … the higher education system must help people uncover and pursue their passions, and chase their respective rainbows.”: TODAY
  • ‘This is what I was put on earth to do’: Elizabeth Holmes and the importance of passion: WaPo
  • How Injustice Affects Decision-making: K@W
  • The Social-Network Illusion That Tricks Your Mind; Network scientists have discovered how social networks can create the illusion that something is common when it is actually rare. TR
  • VW’s Problem Is Bad Management, Not Rogue Engineers: HBR
  • Professor Dr Robot QC: Once regarded as safe havens, the professions are now in the eye of the storm: Economist
  • Reality cheque: Angus Deaton wins the Nobel prize for bringing economics back to the real world: Economist
  • How The Apprentice Explains Donald Trump’s Campaign; His base is Apprentice viewers; and his Iowa coordinator is an Apprentice finalist who chooses delegates using Apprentice-style games.: Bloomberg
  • The Funny Thing About Adversity; It makes you more compassionate. Except when others are suffering just as you did. : NYT
  • Back to business: Michael Bloomberg; He ran New York for 12 years. Now the politician must fix the company he started 30 years ago: FT
  • A college entrance consultant with 19 years of experience describes the best essay she has ever read: BI
  • 9 tricks to motivate yourself to reach your goals: BI
  • Richard Branson, Tony Robbins, and 5 other successful people share their best productivity tricks: BI
  • Authors, Beware: Billionaire Subjects Don’t Make For Best-Selling Biographies: Forbes
  • The 10 funniest Dilbert comic strips about idiot bosses: BI
  • The riff: Mastered by ‘The Apprentice’; The TV show’s amorality has seeped into business culture: FT
  • How to unlock your secret productivity powers: FastCo
  • Help for Pantsers and Plotters: SP
  • Frontline Leadership: A New Source of Competitive Advantage: BCG
  • Demand-Centric Growth: How to Grow by Finding Out What Really Drives Consumer Choice: BCG
  • The Self-Tuning Enterprise: Wouldn’t it be nice if an algorithm could tell you when to develop a new business model or whether to enter a new market? BCG
  • Creating Exponential Growth at the Edge; An Interview with Entrepreneur and Author Salim Ismail: BCG
  • The Tim Ferriss Way: Life Is a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Game: Success
  • You’re not as virtuous as you think: WaPo

Books

  • Rocket: Eight Lessons to Secure Infinite Growth: Amazon

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