The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking; John Dewey on How to Find Your Calling, the Key to a Fulfilling Vocation, and Why Diverse Interests Are Essential for Excellence in Any Field – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 Oct (Tues)

Life

• John Dewey on How to Find Your Calling, the Key to a Fulfilling Vocation, and Why Diverse Interests Are Essential for Excellence in Any Field: BP
• Manny Stul takes out Australian EY Entrepreneur Of The Year; Stul says the secret to Moose Enterprise’s success is “innovation with integrity”. TheAge
• Dilbert creator Scott Adams presents his 10 favorite comics of all time: BI
• Watch A Clip From Pixar’s Super Team of Hindu Deities: WSJ
• The histories of Judaism and Christianity suggest that words alone won’t pacify Islam. Its transformation will be long and bloody. WSJ
• Richard Branson explains his 10 rules for being a great leader: BI

Books

• The Opposable Mind: How Successful Leaders Win Through Integrative Thinking: Amazon

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What the most successful people understand about creative work; Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert shares her ideas about the importance of constantly moving between extremes for creative success – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Oct (Mon)

Life

• What the most successful people understand about creative work; Best-selling author Elizabeth Gilbert shares her ideas about the importance of constantly moving between extremes for creative success. FastCo
• Physicist Lisa Randall on the Sublime, Our Human Quest for Meaning, and the Crucial Differences Between How Art, Science, and Religion Explain the Universe: BP
• This Is The #1 Mistake Parents Make When Arguing With Kids: barker
• How to train your brain by thinking like an expert: Wired
• How to Work More Efficiently — The Eisenhower Matrix: Farnam
• Marijn Dekkers, Bayer: From GE to Germany; Running a €90bn life sciences group without burning out: FT

Books

• Avoiding Disaster: How to Keep Your Business Going When Catastrophe Strike: Amazon
• 5 Gears: How to Be Present and Productive When There Is Never Enough Time: Amazon

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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)

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)

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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Reflections on Leadership from Gettysburg – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13-14 Oct (Tues-Wed)

Life

• Reflections on Leadership from Gettysburg: HBR
• A Child Who Treats Their Parents With Respect Is An Employee Any Boss Would Be Thrilled To Hire: Forbes
• Oprah Winfrey hates meetings so much she once persuaded Coretta Scott King not to visit her; “[I] really, really, really try to avoid meetings.” She prefers that her staff instead send her detailed emails. BI
• Minimizing our problems can help us cope. Maximizing our strengths can help us flourish. Forbes
• Louis I, King of the Sheep: An Illustrated Parable of How Power Changes Us; “Never be hard upon people who are in your power,”Charles Dickens counseled in a letter of advice to his young son: BP
• The Gentle Giant: Oliver Sacks and the Art of Choosing Empathy Over Vengeance; An existential lesson gleaned from a brush with death and foolishness.: BP
• The Four States of Mind: Farnam
• Hunter S. Thompson on Living versus Existing: Farnam
• The cofounder of Apple talks about how Steve Jobs viewed innovation and instilled it into the company’s products: BI
• 13 tricks Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, and other famous execs have used to run effective meetings: BI
• Why Angus Deaton Deserved the Economics Nobel Prize; Angus Deaton: A Skeptical Optimist Wins the Economics Nobel; Angus Deaton is a meticulous scholar who believes that reducing the world to simple theories is almost always dangerous; Nobel Economist Showed We’re Helping the Wrong People: NYT, NewYorker, Bloomberg
• Former Indonesia investment banking head of UBS fined by Singapore regulator for insider trading; currently works for private equity firm Carlyle Group as the Indonesia head: Reuters
• An email adding one letter to his domain name almost cost Centrify’s Tom Kemp $500,000. Here’s his 4 tips for avoiding ‘CEO fraud’. BRW
• New Billionaire: Martin Selig Escaped Nazi Germany to Seattle, Where He Built Fortune In Real Estate: Forbes
• Mental competency tests in the C-suite are more common than you think: Fortune
• How Charles Koch made his billions; His new book Good Profit shows another side to the billionaire businessman: Fortune
• The Innovative Mindset Your Company Can’t Afford to Lose: HBR
• 4,000 Starbucks workers are going to college for free: CNN
• Giant, ancient viruses are thawing out in Siberia – and they’re changing everything we thought we knew about them: BI
• How Office ‘Bad Guys’ Handle the Role; Whether they are axing pet projects or firing underperformers, some managers learn how to be comfortable with being unpopular. WSJ
• GE’s Jeff Immelt on evolving a corporate giantGE’s Jeff Immelt on evolving a corporate giant, what’s driving the company’s evolution, how he leads, and why he’s different from Jack Welch. McKinsey
• What’s the Difference Between Data Science and Statistics?: PN
• Chinese scientists are developing color-changing paint you can remotely control: BI
• Famous last words of 18 famous people: BI
• Woody Allen inspired billionaire Uber CEO Travis Kalanick to get back into startups: BI
• Uber CEO Travis Kalanick knows a thing or two about when to call it quits if your company’s not finding success.: BI
• Lunch with the FT: Jonathan Franzen; What is it about the great American novelist that provokes such strong reactions? FT
• How Google’s head of marketing handles 20 meetings a day: FastCo
• How Ads for Big Brands Could Benefit Rivals Instead: Strategy&
• Freakonomics author Steven Levitt got a whole bunch of college kids to confess to cheating: BI

Books

• 100 Baggers: Stocks That Return 100-to-1 and How To Find Them : Amazon

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The key to Oprah Winfrey’s success: radical focus; After revamping her once-struggling TV channel, OWN, Oprah Winfrey has figured out how to make time for the projects she cares about most – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 12 Oct (Mon)

Life

• The key to Oprah Winfrey’s success: radical focus; After revamping her once-struggling TV channel, OWN, Oprah Winfrey has figured out how to make time for the projects she cares about most. FastCo
• Elise Andrew, the woman credited with making science sexy and interesting for millions around the world, says she was offered $40.1 million to sell her runaway success Facebook page and websites. TheAge
• The Importance of Recreational Math: ‘Fun’ problems can lead to striking, unexpected discoveries.: NYT
• Secrets from 11 of the most productive people from Oprah to Aziz Ansari: FastCo
• Joining the family business: An emerging opportunity for investors: McKinsey
• The Nobel prize in economics was awarded for showing the world as it is-not how it should be; Don’t let the Nobel prize fool you. Economics is not a science: qz
• Making Caregiving Compatible with Work: HBR
• The six lists you need to make every day productive: FastCo
• Angus Deaton Awarded Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences; Professor of Economics and International Affairs at Princeton University wins for his analysis of consumption, poverty, and welfare: WSJ
• They may be fighting like rats in a sack’ – how to survive a VW-style corporate crisis; From Enron to Kids Company, Northern Rock to the News of the World, former employees recall their feelings of excitement, isolation and despair  Guardian
• Don’t let the Nobel : Guardian
• Why It’s Important To Understand Cultural Difference In Business: Forbes
• Ruby McGregor-Smith, Mitie CEO: Outsourcing’s prickly peer; Managing cleaners and carers has led her into the House of Lords – and a national debate over pay: FT
• The problem with those who cheat; Insead professor of ethics analyses how the Volkswagen brand came to fail: FT
• Maestro Guitarss found ways to improve its guitar quality expand the business: ST
• Ageing: switching off genes could extend lifespan by 60 per cent, scientists say: TheAge
• The Trouble With Economics: Bloomberg
• Ageing: switching off genes could extend lifespan by 60 per cent, scientists say: TheAge
•  The Trouble With Economics: Bloomberg
• Ferrari Scion, Steered Away From Racing, Ends Up a Billionaire: Bloomberg

Books

• Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street : Amazon

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Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe; You can learn to be creative, if you’re willing to embarrass yourself; Prepare yourself for the good, bad, and ugly moments of life; Steve Jobs used to ask Jony Ive the same question almost every day; Perfecting Pixar’s movies takes a crazy amount of research – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 7-11 Oct (Wed-Sun)

Life

• You can learn to be creative, if you’re willing to embarrass yourself: qz
• Prepare yourself for the good, bad, and ugly moments of life. TWS
• Steve Jobs used to ask Jony Ive the same question almost every day: BI
• Perfecting Pixar’s movies takes a crazy amount of research: Wired
• Why an Open Mind Is Key to Making Better Predictions: K@W
• The four critical traits of highly successful people; never give up on the dream, invest in experience – practice mastery, learn relentlessly…. persistent but also patient: LinkedIn
• Read Tim Cook’s Note To Apple Employees On The Anniversary Of Jobs’ Death: Techcrunch
• How To Never Get Angry: 3 New Secrets From Neuroscience: Barker
• How Grok Learning uses fake Shakespeare sonnets and microwaved marshmallows to teach computers to kids: BRW
• Mixed blessing for Tu’s Nobel honor; Nobel Winner’s Story Highlights Flaw in How China Picks Top Academicians: Standard, Caixin
• Meet early Macintosh marketer Joanna Hoffman, who was not afraid to stand up to Steve Jobs: BI
• For think tanks, it’s either innovate or die: WaPo
• The science of organizational transformations; New survey results find that the most effective transformation initiatives draw upon four key actions to change mind-sets and behaviors. McKinsey
• From rags to riches to jail: More details have emerged of the rags- to-riches Macau billionaire at the center of a bribery scandal that has rocked the United Nations. Standard
• Why Businesses Back Innovation Centers: techcrunch
• Why Free Markets Make Fools of Us: NYBooks
• How Picasso the Sculptor Ruptured Art History: Vulture
• “Just Googling it” is bad for your brain: qz
• 9 Simple Statements That Will Make You Think Differently About the World: Fool
• Why Are Black Action Stars So Old?: PE
• Should You Ever Use a Pie Chart?: PE
• Class 3 Notes From Reid Hoffman, John Lilly, Chris Yeh, and Allen Blue’s Technology-enabled Blitzscaling – CS183C Class At Stanford: LinkedIn
• The Most Important Thing, and It’s Almost a Secret: NYT
• The Big Decisions: NYT
• The madness of Charlie Brown: Lancet
• Poultry to property: how Australia’s richest families are making second fortunes: BRW
• The Devil’s Dictionary: AB
• Angela Merkel’s incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world’s most powerful woman: BI
• The fascinating life of Nikola Tesla, the man who electrified our world and fell in love with a pigeon: BI
• Here’s a young Steve Jobs giving the best advice on hiring, success and failure: BI
• Treasures in our hearts: Star
• Alice Walker on What Her Father Taught Her About Lying and the Love-Expanding Capacity of Telling the Truth: BP
• Keeping it in the family: Asian tycoons lack confidence in their sons and heirs: SCMP
• How to become CEO of a huge public company: Fortune
• How the Star Wars producer went from secretary to studio boss: fortune
• 6 fascinating ideas that are about to change our world: BI
• Why elephants rarely get cancer – and what we can learn from them; CBS
• There’s a fascinating reason why it feels like it keeps getting harder to sleep as you age: BI
• These 3 simple words can help almost anyone earn their boss’s trust: BI
• In Lotteries, Lucky Numbers Will Only Win You Less; Popular picks are no more likely to hit than others—and mean more potential winners when they do: WSJ
• A Criminal Mind: For 40 years, Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist who oversaw a clinic for troubled children, and doted on his four daughters and nine grandchildren. Then, suddenly, he became a major drug dealer. Why?: CS
• The Importance of Empathy in Our Services-Centric, People-Oriented Economy: WSJ
• Ken Jeong, From Medicine to Laughter; The doctor-turned-actor can’t quite leave his medical past behind: WSJ
• Gil-li Vardi: Can Businesses Learn from Military Strategy?: Stanford
• Dunkin’ and the Doughnut King: Ted Ngoy overcame poverty and escaped genocide, made a fortune off doughnuts and gambled it all away. Today, Ngoy is back on top — but America’s biggest doughnut chain could threaten the hundreds of California shops that are his legacy: CS
• Rebirth of a Salesman: At 66, the founder of Men’s Wearhouse is starting over – with a startup.: CS
• Why our demand for instant results hurts think tanks: WaPo
• Successful and disastrous career of music legend: WaPo
• Perfecting Pixar’s movies takes a crazy amount of research: Wired
• The Meaning of History: Farnam
• How to Disagree: Amin Maalouf on the Key to Intelligent Dissent and Effective Criticism: BP
• Billionaire’s Dropout Grandson Wants to Kill Work E-mail: Bloomberg
• Amazon Wants to Know How Its Employees Feel Every Day: Bloomberg
•  How Two Guys Lost God and Found $40 Million: Bloomberg
• How to Live and Invest Without Failure: SN
• Driven to distraction by mounting multitasking; With evidence mounting against multitasking, bosses could do well to hit the pause button and spare staff from productivity-sapping overload: SCMP
• From Langham To Xintiandi, Hong Kong’s Lo Clan Stays Together, Apart: Forbes
• Near Misses: Clans Too ‘Poor’ For FORBES’ Inaugural List Of Asia’s Richest Families: Forbes
• More Money, More Problems: Asia’s Richest Clans’ Most Notorious Feuds: Forbes
• Galileo on Critical Thinking and the Folly of Believing Your Preconceptions: BP
• Why We Choke: Farnam
• Harvard, Goldman Sachs, Venture Capital.Fugitive; Iftikar Ahmed appeared to be an immigrant success story, but prosecutors and regulators allege he stole $65 million: WSJ
• Pixar President Urges Companies to Tolerate Failure and ‘Mess’: WSJ
• Pixar’s Ed Catmull: What Many Get Wrong About Steve Jobs: WSJ
• Why We Fall for Bogus Research: Bloomberg
• Take Giant Leaps (Because You’re Not Going to Win with Timid Steps): BCG
• Excellence comes from saying no: Forbes
• How Successful People Make Smart Decisions: Forbes
• Stop teaching kids to add up — maths is more important; Business needs problem-solvers who use modern tools: FT

Books

• Foolproof: Why Safety Can Be Dangerous and How Danger Makes Us Safe: Amazon, FT
• Traction: How Any Startup Can Achieve Explosive Customer Growth : Amazon
• Zen Pencils Volume Two: Dream the Impossible Dream : Amazon
• Zen Pencils: Cartoon Quotes from Inspirational Folks : Amazon
• The De-Textbook: The Stuff You Didn’t Know About the Stuff You Thought You Knew: Amazon
• What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions: Amazon
• Everything Is Bullshit: The greatest scams on Earth revealed: Amazon
• Hipster Business Models: How to make a living in the modern world: Amazon
• Transformative Experience: Amazon
• Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business : Amazon
• Better Places, Better Lives: A Biography of James Rouse; A visionary developer and master planner, James Rouse was a key figure in the story of how and why the United States was built the way it was during the last half century.  Amazon
• The Real Deal: The Autobiography of Britain’s Most Controversial Media Mogul: Amazon
• The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons : Amazon
• Zeckendorf: The autobiograpy of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history.: Amazon
• Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn from Their Mistakes–But Some Do: Amazon

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Not For Investors Only: Top 10 Nuggets Of Buffett Wisdom For Life Success; How Michelle Phan Built A $500 Million Company; The One Thing You Must Ignore To Boost Your Business and Elevate Your Craft – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 6 Oct (Tues)

Life

• Not For Investors Only: Top 10 Nuggets Of Buffett Wisdom For Life Success: Forbes
• How Michelle Phan Built A $500 Million Company: Forbes
• The One Thing You Must Ignore To Boost Your Business and Elevate Your Craft: Forbes
•  From Apple to Python: how everyone can tap teams’ creative juices; A leader’s talent lies in integrating other people’s work rather than trying to direct every aspect: FT
• How the most successful people keep track of their best ideas; five leaders share how they record, organize, and manage their ideas.: FastCo
• How Much Should Scientists Check Other Scientists’ Work? A debate is growing in the research world over the value of replicating older, peer-reviewed studies: WSJ
• Is the Theory of Disruption Dead Wrong? The sexiest idea to come out of business schools in decades has major flaws, a new study says. Bloomberg
• A Billionaire New York Landlord Who Doesn’t Trumpet His Wealth; New York real estate billionaire Larry Friedland got his start while he was studying to be a pharmacist in the late 1950s when he met a guy named Nathan Miller. Bloomberg
• 15 inspirational quotes from Steve Jobs on the fourth anniversary of his death: BI
• A former real estate agent reveals 7 broker tricks to look out for when searching for apartment rentals: BI
• 20 things you should say at work if you want people to trust you: BI
• The Network Man: LinkedIn’s Reid Hoffman’s big idea. NewYorker
• Here’s how the cofounder of LinkedIn starts every dinner meeting: BI
• Here’s the unglamorous job Hillary Clinton was fired from before she was famous: BI

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Listen Widely and Be Curious – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 5 Oct (Mon)

Life

•  Weekend Listening: Listen Widely and Be Curious: CFA
• Psychologist Barry Schwartz on What Motivates Us to Work, Why Incentives Fail, and How Our Ideas About Human Nature Shape Who We Become: BP
• The 9 habits of insanely likable and charismatic people: GSK
• How to Be a Speed Writer: HBR
• Mystery of how fire ants survive floods solved: Insects hook their legs together to form LIFE RAFTS that help them float: Dailymail
• How Uncertainty Teaches Us To Adapt For The Better: Forbes
•  5 Easy Ways To Improve Difficult Relationships, Backed By Research: Barker
• How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly: HBR
• Inside The Epic Fantasy That’s Driven Donald Trump For 33 Years: Forbes
• Michael O’Leary, Ryanair CEO: Growing up in public; A more adult approach has lifted the budget carrier’s profits: FT

Books

• Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective: Amazon

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Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; We must learn to appreciate the different aspects that make our life complete, and not dwell on the imperfections – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Oct (Sun)

Life

• Life is like a jigsaw puzzle; We must learn to appreciate the different aspects that make our life complete, and not dwell on the imperfections. Star
• The Mountain View of the Mind: Simone Weil on the Purest and Most Fertile Form of Thought; “Our thought should be empty, waiting, not seeking anything, but ready to receive in its naked truth the object that is to penetrate it.” BP
• In 1975, this Kodak employee invented the digital camera. His bosses made him hide it.  BRW
• Gary Smith of Ciena: Build a Culture on Trust and Respect: NYT

Books

•  How to Build and Sustain a Championship Culture: Amazon
• H3 Leadership: Be Humble. Stay Hungry. Always Hustle: Humble (Who am I?), Hungry (Where do I want to go?) and Hustle (How will I get there?).  Amazon

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Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Oct (Sat)

Life

• To Get More Out of Workers, Invest More in Them: NYT
• How Managers Can See the Future More Clearly: HBR
• Warren Buffett urges young tech titans to give big and early:FT
•  Three Reasons You Need To Say ‘No’ More Often: Forbes
• Good design is good business: McKinsey
• The truth about story-telling; It can be a powerful tool to ensure brand success: Star
• ‘The Big Bang Theory’ Has Hidden Jokes Down to a Science; The CBS sitcom works to make sure its whiteboard equations and physics references are accurate: WSJ
• One story that tells you everything you need to know about working for Elon Musk: BI
• One CEO says résumés are a thing of the past — here’s what he looks at instead: BI
• Holly Tucker, 38, founded the gift website Notonthehighstreet.com with Sophie Cornish from her kitchen table in April 2006: FT
• Presidential interpreters: Insiders behind the curtain; Top interpreter reveals life in translation: KH1, KH2

Books

• Everybody Matters: The Extraordinary Power of Caring for Your People Like Family: Amazon

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Nike’s founder reveals the best decision he ever made; What Generous People’s Brains Do Differently; “No artist is pleased… There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 2 Oct (Fri)

Life

• Martha Graham on the Life-Force of Creativity and the Divine Dissatisfaction of Being an Artist; “No artist is pleased… There is only a queer divine dissatisfaction, a blessed unrest that keeps us marching and makes us more alive than the others.”: BP
• Nike’s founder reveals the best decision he ever made: BI
• What Generous People’s Brains Do Differently: HBR
• How Gratitude Can Help Your Career: HBR
• 4 Steps To Overcome Adversity And Amplify Your Success: Forbes
• Old Money’s 7 Essential Ways to Stay Rich; Lessons from five centuries of safeguarding family money.: Bloomberg
• How the Superwealthy Plan to Make Sure Their Kids Stay Superwealthy; Passing on a fortune isn’t as easy as it seems.: Bloomberg
• Rewriting the Economic Rules; it’s insidious that farmers are buying genetically modified seeds. Attacking innovation is a strange way to save capitalism. WSJ
• Nicolas Berggruen is on a crusade for ideas; wants to be “midwife” to new conceptual frameworks that can rank alongside the Reformation, the Enlightenment, Marxism or the Washington Consensus: FT
• Psychiatrists use an old trick to get people to trust them with their secrets – and it works just as well in business: BI
• Capitalism and its discontents: Anti-capitalism is being fuelled not just by capitalism’s vices but also by its virtues: Economist
• 10 idioms from around the world that make absolutely no sense in English: BI
• 8 bizarre German words with no English equivalent: BI
• 3 brilliant ways to breeze through the mid-afternoon slump and have more energy all day: BI
• Rewriting the Economic Rules; it’s insidious that farmers are buying genetically modified seeds. Attacking innovation is a strange way to save capitalism. WSJ

Books

• First, Fast, Fearless: How to Lead Like a Navy SEAL : Amazon

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Happy 100th Birthday, Jerome Bruner: The Pioneering Psychologist on the Act of Discovery and the Key to True Learning; “Discovery, like surprise, favors the well-prepared mind.”; From humble patent clerk to the world’s most beloved genius: the fascinating life of Albert Einstein – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1 Oct (Thurs)

Life

• Happy 100th Birthday, Jerome Bruner: The Pioneering Psychologist on the Act of Discovery and the Key to True Learning; “Discovery, like surprise, favors the well-prepared mind.” BP
• From humble patent clerk to the world’s most beloved genius: the fascinating life of Albert Einstein: BI
• Henry David Thoreau on Success: Farnam
• 4 Tips for Launching Minimum Viable Products Inside Big Companies: HBR
• What does it take to go from challenger brand to market leader? These businesses start out as underdogs but can end up disrupting an entire industry: Guardian
• The perils of true-crime writing; For even a scrupulous, serious-intentioned writer attempting to chronicle a contentious crime, there are all sorts of potholes along the way: Forbes
• Claude Dauphin, Trafigura Trading House Founder, Dies at 64; Dauphin spent five months in an Ivory Coast jail in 2006 and 2007 over a dispute involving alleged dumping of toxic waste in Abidjan. The jail held some 4000 prisoners and did not have showers. Bloomberg, Reuters
• Why More People Want an M.B.A.: Number of applicants seeking admission to business-school programs is on the rise: WSJ
• A psychologist says there are 2 simple strategies for surviving anxiety in your 20s: BI
• Meet the man behind the corporate world’s most incredible parties – and see his stunning work; When companies like J.P. Morgan need an event planner, they call Ron Wendt.: BI
• The first results of a massive brain study reveal something fascinating about smart, successful people: BI
• A hotel magnate warns CEOs about one major danger that comes with success: BI
• 8 TED talks that can help you become insanely productive: BI
• American Colleges Pay Agents to Woo Foreigners, Despite Fraud Risk; Campuses pay commissions to build foreign enrollment but sometimes get phony applications, ghostwritten essays: WSJ

Books

• From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places: Amazon

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Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education; “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 29-30 Sep (Tues/Wed)

Life

• Nietzsche on How to Find Yourself and the True Value of Education; “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life.”: BP
• How Yogi Berra Turned His Love for a Kid’s Game Into a Lifetime of Service; Berra spent decades inspiring kids and creating educational opportunities for them, writes the founding director of the Yogi Berra Museum: WSJ
• From dirt poor to billionaire – the incredible rags-to-riches story of fashion legend Ralph Lauren: BI
• A mentor to some of Wall Street’s biggest names has died—here’s what he taught them: BI
• The industrialist Andrew Carnegie used these 10 principles to become the richest man in the world: BI
• All Storytelling is About Metaphor: SP
• This Billionaire Knows The Secret To Saving A Family Business: Forbes
• Vietnamese-American Pharma Billionaire Debuts On The Forbes 400: Forbes
• James Dyson’s advice to Germany: scrap rules for real Vorsprung durch Technik; Regulations often offer little more than a smokescreen for manufacturers to hide behind. They are a form of control which stifles progress: Telegraph
• How Meetings Differ, from Stockholm to New Delhi: HBR
• Profit Is Less About Good Management than You Think: HBR
•  “Companies Don’t Go Global, People Do”: An Interview with Andy Molinsky: HBR
• Here’s a straightforward solution to the insanely complex ‘Einstein Riddle’: BI
• 8 books Europe’s top business school recommends on entrepreneurship, finance and economics: BI
• The Joy of Following: Many offices are finding they have plenty of leaders but not enough followers. And it isn’t easy to follow well: WSJ
• Making design a business priority: Being “design driven” means operating in a fundamentally different way. In this video, McKinsey’s Mahin Samadani explains how companies can make the transition. McKinsey
• Building a design-driven culture; It’s not enough to just sell a product or service—companies must truly engage with their customers. Here’s how to embed experience design in your organization. McKinsey
• 9 hard-earned leadership lessons: FastCo
• The Mindset of Internationally Successful Companies; Risk management for going global requires a delicate balance of detail-oriented preparation and openness to uncertainty. Insead

Books

• The Art of Execution: How the world’s best investors get it wrong and still make millions: Amazon
• A ZEBRA IN LION COUNTRY: The Dean Of Small Cap Stocks Explains How To Invest In Small Rapidly Growing Companies: Amazon

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Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose; “The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 Sep (Mon)

Life

• Uncertainty and Our Search for Meaning: Legendary Psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom on How We Glean Our Sense of Purpose; “The search for meaning, much like the search for pleasure, must be conducted obliquely. Meaning ensues from meaningful activity: the more we deliberately pursue it, the less likely are we to find it.” BP
• The Five Life-Stages of Happiness: How Our Definition of Contentment Changes Over the Course of Our Lifetime; “Our meaning of happiness is constantly shaped and reshaped by small choices we make every day.” BP
• 11 wildly successful people who dropped out of high school: BI
• Inside Chipotle’s extremely intense, 39-point checklist for good management: qz
• Decision Making on Freeways and in Parking Lots: IC
• Finding the next Einstein: Forbes
• A new kind of smart: It’s time to change the way we think about human potential, says Scott Barry Kaufman. APA
• Why You Should Stop Trying to Learn From Your Mistakes; A new study shows that remembering past mistakes can impact your self-control and decision-making: FastCo
• Pascal’s Wager 2.0: Pascal’s famous wager requires a choice between believing and not believing in God. But there’s more than one way not to believe. Opinionator
• Ditching work-life balance can ease multitasking malaise; Strict compartmentalisation can be counter-productive: FT
• How Humans Can Win the Race Against the Machines; American education is ripe for a technology revolution to prepare students for the 21st century: WSJ
• Legendary Investor Richard Rainwater Dies: Master deal maker helped turn Bass brothers of Texas into billionaires: WSJ

Books

• Kerry Stokes: the Boy from Nowhere: Amazon

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The way billionaire Warren Buffett defines success has nothing to do with money: “I measure success by how many people love me.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22-27 Sep (Tues-Sun)

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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The way Walt Disney inspired his team to make ‘Snow White’ reveals his creative genius — and insane perfectionism – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 Sep (Mon)

Life

• The way Walt Disney inspired his team to make ‘Snow White’ reveals his creative genius — and insane perfectionism: BI
• Never take things for granted: Star
• Jonathan M. Tisch: Beware of the Thin Air at the Top: NYT
• The quieter you become, the more you can hear; Markets don’t speak to us; they whisper.  A quiet mind makes for a keen ear. TF
• Here’s what you can learn about leadership from ‘Everest’: Fortune
• Lee Kuan Yew’s daughter: I’m a Martian anyway; Book by Dr Lee Wei Ling, A Hakka woman’s Singapore stories: My life as a daughter, doctor and diehard Singaporean.: AsiaOne
• The Difference Between Good And Bad Organizations: Farnam
• 6 Entrepreneurship Lessons From Family Businesses; Entrepreneurs who have built companies that touch multiple generations share what they have learned along the way: NYT
• On How to Disagree: thebookoflife
• What We Do When Someone Disagrees With Us: Farnam

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Fraud, Fools, and Financial Markets; CEO of $50 billion Salesforce shared his epic founding story to inspire a small business owner – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 Sep (Sun)

Life

• Fraud, Fools, and Financial Markets: PS
• CEO of $50 billion Salesforce shared his epic founding story to inspire a small business owner: BI

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Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success; Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Sep (Sat)

Life

• Humanity as a Competitive Advantage; As technology advances, people will need qualities such as empathy, care, attunement, self-awareness and generosity to get ahead. NYT
• After Trauma, New Strength as Well as New Scars; Survivors of terrible accidents and losses often find more meaningful ways to live and richer types of happiness: WSJ
•  When C.E.O. Comebacks Fail ; Companies that hire back their old executives hope to emulate Apple. But not everyone can be Steve Jobs. : NewYorker
• The Sum of Human Knowledge: Computers govern how long the microwave heats food or the dryer spins clothes. Can they learn to form ideas and theories about the world around them as well?: WSJ
• Why We Can’t Get Over Ourselves: Exposing the reasons we fail to understand the minds of others. Nautil
• Why Etsy engineers send company-wide emails confessing mistakes they made: qz
• Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science: HBR
• This tower purifies a million cubic feet of air an hour: Wired
• Asia fund industry veteran goes independent to promote corporate governance: SCMP
• In warming Arctic, mosquitoes may live long and prosper: Reuters

Books

• Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success: Amazon
• Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth: Amazon
• What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth: Amazon
• Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want : Amazon
• Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time: Amazon
• Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By: Amazon
• The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are: Amazon

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How a brilliant female chemist who owns 55 patents re-invented cotton and made it ‘the fabric of our lives’; Dreams are all about values – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17-18 Sep (Thurs/Fri)

Life

• Some of the Wisest Words to Create and Live By: “Be a good steward of your gifts. Protect your time. Feed your inner life. Avoid too much noise. Read good books, have good sentences in your ears.”: BP
• How a brilliant female chemist who owns 55 patents re-invented cotton and made it ‘the fabric of our lives’: BI
• Dreams are all about values: JA
• 10 unique ways leaders bond with employees; Writing a letter to your parents, brewing beer together, playing cards against humanity: These CEOs have cracked the code on engagement.: FastCo
• SAP CEO Bill McDermott lost his left eye in a freak accident that almost killed him: BI
• 9 proven strategies to become more charismatic:BI
•  Some of the best economics teachers are genuine storytellers: TheAge
• 8 tricks for remembering everything you read: BI
• SAP CEO Bill McDermott lost his left eye in a freak accident that almost killed him: BI
• Some of the best economics teachers are genuine storytellers: TheAge
• The 2015 world champion of public speaking has a surprising trick for beating stage fright; “keep in mind that you are better than everyone who’s watching you because you have the courage to stand and they don’t.”: BI
• A prestigious American magazine has named Singaporean scientist Benjamin Tee Chee Keong as an innovator to watch, after he developed an electronic skin that could make prosthetic limbs as sensitive as human ones. ASEAN
• “World class thinkers learn early on that becoming a millionaire isn’t easy and the need for comfort can be devastating. They learn to be comfortable while operating in a state of ongoing uncertainty. The great ones know there’s a price to pay for : BI
• 7 lessons you can learn from kids that will make you a more successful adult: BI
• What Apple employees really think about the company’s internal corporate culture: BI
• The economics of deception: You have been warned; Two heavyweights show how markets can turn against the unsuspecting: Economist
• Why markets will never be free of fraud and fools: MW
• Hostess Brands doesn’t live by Twinkies alone. Two years after being resurrected by private-equity owners, the maker of Ding Dongs, Ho Hos and its famous creme-filled cylindrical cake is setting its sights on bread.
• Death and transfiguration: The golden age of the Western corporation may be coming to an end: Economist
• The unlikeable way Facebook pushes our buttons: FT
• How to Spot Hidden Opportunities for Sales Growth: HBR
• Nietzsche on the Power of Music; “Without music life would be a mistake.”: BP
• Bobby Fischer, a troubled genius in the pre-internet age: Guardian
• We’re All ‘Phools’: Nobel Laureates Have a New Critique of Capitalism; In addition to giving us what we really want, markets also systematically target our weak spots, book says: WSJ
• Why work? A psychologist explains the deeper meaning of your daily grind: qz
• Feeling Overwhelmed? Here Are Three Ways To Gain Perspective: Forbes
• The Systems Mindset: Managing the Machinery of Your Life: Installment 1: WTS
• 9 proven strategies to become more charismatic: BI
• 8 tricks for remembering everything you read: BI
• 5 Common Mental Errors That Sway You From Making Good Decisions: JC
• How to ruin your financial life, #badadvice: PT
• Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation: BP
• Why Talking About Strategy “Execution” Is Still Dangerous: HBR
•  Li Ka-shing plans to make a killing as he cuts corporate ties with HK: SCMP
• New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead: HBR
• Why Talking About Strategy “Execution” Is Still Dangerous: HBR
•  10 reasons that explain why the octopus is the most incredible creature of the sea: bi
• The CEO of Goldman Sachs just talked about China in a way we’ve never heard before: BI
•  Mark Zuckerberg said this genius is his favorite scientist: BI
• John Cage on Human Nature, Constructive Anarchy, and How Silence Helps Us Enlarge Each Other’s Goodness: BI
• 4 misleading signs of entrepreneurial success: Fortune
• Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation: BP
• A Professor Who Put Teaching First; Peter Schramm didn’t publish much, but he showed countless students how to think: WSJ

Books

• The Most Dangerous Trade: How Short Sellers Uncover Fraud, Keep Markets Honest, and Make and Lose Billions : Amazon
• Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity : Amazon
• Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential : Health
• Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success : Amazon

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Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation: “There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 Sep (Wed)

Life

• Thoreau on How Silence Ennobles Speech and the Ideal Space for Conversation; “There are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout.” : BP
• John Cage on Human Nature, Constructive Anarchy, and How Silence Helps Us Enlarge Each Other’s Goodness; “It is essential that we be convinced of the goodness of human nature, and we must act as though people are good.”: BP
• Study: Feelings of Pride Influence How Much Willpower You Have; Pride in who you are, not what you’ve accomplished, is the key to self-discipline.: Forbes
• A Professor Who Put Teaching First; Peter Schramm didn’t publish much, but he showed countless students how to think: WSJ
• 4 misleading signs of entrepreneurial success: Fortune
• The 2015 world champion of public speaking has a surprising trick for beating stage fright; “keep in mind that you are better than everyone who’s watching you because you have the courage to stand and they don’t.” BI
• Mark Zuckerberg said this genius is his favorite scientist: BI
• New Managers Need a Philosophy About How They’ll Lead: HBR
• Why Talking About Strategy “Execution” Is Still Dangerous: HBR
•  Ex-Evernote CEO turns VC: ‘I don’t believe in work-life balance. I believe in life’s work.’: BI
• 10 reasons that explain why the octopus is the most incredible creature of the sea: BI

Books

• Bounce: Mozart, Federer, Picasso, Beckham, and the Science of Success : Amazon
• Trying Not to Try: Ancient China, Modern Science, and the Power of Spontaneity : Amazon
• Compelling People: The Hidden Qualities That Make Us Influential : Amazon

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Go North, Lost Leader. Former CEO Bill George argues that leadership is a journey that requires a special compass if it is to be authentic; Charlie Munger and the Pursuit of Worldly Wisdom – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15 Sep (Tues)

Life

• Go North, Lost Leader. Former CEO Bill George argues that leadership is a journey that requires a special compass if it is to be authentic. Strategy&
• Charlie Munger and the Pursuit of Worldly Wisdom: Farnam
• Your Company Culture Shouldn’t Just Be Great-It Should Be Distinctive: HBR
• Subway co-founder Fred DeLuca died Monday at the age of 67. BI
• BMW chief’s collapse highlights executive stress; Even when they are under the weather, leaders feel pressure to carry on: FT
• A Billionaire’s Crusade to Make L.A. the Contemporary Art Capital of the World: Bloomberg
• Finding Gravitas: Combining style and substance: Why developing genuine gravitas is important for your career. Insead
• Reading a room is a skill that can be learned; a guide to nonverbal cues like how people stand or hold their hands: WSJ
• Here’s what it would look like if Picasso had painted the presidential portraits: WaPo

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What Formula Would Einstein Use If He Was A Business Leader Today? PROGRESS = SPEED times LEARNING divided by COST (P = SL/C); Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 14 Sep (Mon)

Life

• What Formula Would Einstein Use If He Was A Business Leader Today? Forbes
• The leadership genius of Abraham Lincoln: FastCo
•  Socrates knew it: the secret of disagreeing successfully: BRW
• Zuckerberg’s meaningful failure: JA
• To get the most out of your day, manage your attention not your time: qz
• 3 Ways Empathy Can Improve Your Life, Backed By Research: Barker
• The cofounder of Apple talks about what it was like to work with Steve Jobs when the company was failing: BI

Books

• Empathy: Why It Matters, and How to Get It : Amazon

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Walt Disney, a Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mouse – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13 Sep (Sun)

Life

• Walt Disney, a Visionary Who Was Crazy Like a Mouse; Disney was constantly reinventing his company, a practice that drove his more business-minded brother crazy but ultimately helped his studio thrive: NYT

Books

• Training Camp: What the Best Do Better Than Everyone Else: Amazon
• Move Your Bus: An Extraordinary New Approach to Accelerating Success in Work and Life : Amazon

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Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 11 Sep (Fri)

Life

• Richard Bolles: The man who shaped careers advice; ‘What Color is Your Parachute?’ author looks back over 40 years: FT
• Socrates knew it: the secret of disagreeing successfully: BRW
• To implement change, you must rewire your organisation: BT
• Question Certainty: HBR
•  The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back: HBR
• Helping a Coworker Who’s Stressed Out: HBR
• Lennon and McCartney: Fifty years of “Yesterday”: Economist
• The Big Misconceptions Holding Holacracy Back: HBR
• How One CEO Uses Extreme Openness To Lead 8,000 People: Forbes
• Question Certainty: HBR
• Germany in the 18th century: Prussian and powerful; What made Frederick great?: Economist

Books

• Grounded: How Leaders Stay Rooted in an Uncertain World: Amazon
• You First: Inspire Your Team to Grow Up, Get Along, and Get Stuff Done: Amazon
• Stop Playing Safe: Rethink Risk. Unlock the Power of Courage. Achieve Outstanding Success: Amazon
• Red Team: How to Succeed By Thinking Like the Enemy: Amazon
• Great Work: How to Make a Difference People Love : Amazon
• Stacking the Deck: How to Lead Breakthrough Change Against Any Odds: Amazon
• ENGAGED!: Outbehave Your Competition to Create Customers for Life : Amazon
• The Oz Principle: Getting Results Through Individual and Organizational Accountability: Amazon
• The Wisdom of Oz: Using Personal Accountability to Succeed in Everything You Do : Amazon
• Ted Leonsis On Six Books Every Entrepreneur Must Read: Forbes

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Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers: “People calculate too much and think too little” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 10 Sep (Thurs)

Life

• Charlie Munger on Avoiding Computers: Farnam
• What Does Aristotle Have to do With Business Ethics?: WSJ
• These 150 People Are Ridiculously Successful and All Have the Same Career Path: None: LinkedIn
• Is Our Identity in Intellect, Memory or Moral Character?: WSJ
• Scorpions, cockroaches and the reality of unpleasant leaders: FT
•  To find success, make people laugh: Seth Goldstein: e27
• Germany in the 18th century: Prussian and powerful; What made Frederick great? Economist
• Digital Taylorism: A modern version of “scientific management” threatens to dehumanise the workplace: Economist
• Boom, bust and broken trust mark the ages of finance; Managers of other people’s money lack ‘anxious vigilance’ that they might apply to their own cash: FT
• Why It’s Sometimes Better Not to Tell Employees Where They Stand: K@W

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The Magic Question: A Simple Question Every Leader Dreams of Answering – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 9 Sep (Wed)

Life

• Secrets To Success: 6 Tips From The Most Successful People: Barker
• The Two Types of Knowledge: Farnam
• Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings: HBR
• Big question: Is speed reading actually possible? Wired
• Literally flying toward better ideas: the creative habits of Paul Scheer: FastCo
• Manage Stress by Knowing What You Value: HBR
• Making Better Decisions in Your Family Business: HBR
• Is Our Identity in Intellect, Memory or Moral Character? WSJ
• Setting Aside Shame and Blame in Financial Decisions; Not only does shame fail at changing behavior, it can also trigger the mistakes you are trying to avoid.: NYT
• How Billion-Dollar Unicorns Are Changing the Face of American Entrepreneurship: VF
• Australia’s secret hot beds of innovation and disruption: BRW

Books

• The Magic Question: A Simple Question Every Leader Dreams of Answering: Amazon

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Sir Adrian Cadbury, corporate governance pioneer, 1929-2015 – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 8 Sep (Tues)

Life

• Sir Adrian Cadbury, corporate governance pioneer, 1929-2015: FT
• Why More and More Companies Are Ditching Performance Ratings: HBR
• How non-technical startup founders can find their technical ‘other half’: BI

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Warren Buffett on Scorecards, Investing, Friends, and the Family Motto – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 7 Sep (Mon)

Life

• Warren Buffett on Scorecards, Investing, Friends, and the Family Motto: Farnam
• The Ten Golden Rules of Argument: Farnam
• How companies from Zappos to Canva swap hierarchies for holacracy: BRW
• Keeping it in the family: the key to making succession planning work: SCMP
• Family-owned businesses outperform others, says Credit Suisse report: SCMP
• Meet Reed Hastings, the man who built Netflix; BI

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The First Golden Rule Of Leadership: Develop an inner clarity. Understand your bright and dark sides, your personal strengths and weakness. Self-comprehension is a fundamental precondition necessary for real leadership – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 6 Sep (Sun)

Life

• The First Golden Rule Of Leadership: Develop an inner clarity. Understand your bright and dark sides, your personal strengths and weakness. Self-comprehension is a fundamental precondition necessary for real leadership. Forbes
• Every moment counts: Life is about getting our priorities right so that we still have time to savour a cuppa.: Star
• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff built a $50 billion empire by following 7 lessons from his mentor-turned-nemesis Larry Ellison: BI
• Rising to Your Level of Misery at Work: NYT

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