Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Lego’s saviour builds on success; CEO of the toy industry’s biggest group gained leadership skills teaching toddlers – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 5 Sep (Sat)

Life

• Jorgen Vig Knudstorp, Lego’s saviour builds on success; CEO of the toy industry’s biggest group gained leadership skills teaching toddlers: FT
• The Power of Brains to Keep Growing; Not long ago, scientists thought that after infancy, our brains never added any neurons: WSJ
• Jeff Bezos’ email to his employees shows Amazon’s leadership problems are only beginning: qz
• Longform: the podcast about writing that uncovers the story behind the headlines: Guardian

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Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common; “There is really no substitute for the integrity that inspires people to do good work because they want to do good work.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Sep (Fri)

Life

• Rising Strong: Brené Brown on the Physics of Vulnerability and What Resilient People Have in Common: BP
• “There is really no substitute for the integrity that inspires people to do good work because they want to do good work.”: BI
• Multi-tasking: how to survive in the 21st century; Modern life now forces us to do a multitude of things at once — but can we? Should we?: FT
• The war on malaria: A charge that sticks; Static electricity may lead to better mosquito nets: Economist
• The Trump in every leader; Bosses must learn how to deal with the egomania that comes with power: Economist
• How Trump Invented Trump: Bloomberg
• 5 Strategy Questions Every Leader Should Make Time For: HBR
• How to build a great company by blending bureaucracy and holacracy: WaPo

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Bruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding; Henry David Thoreau on Reading; To Become a Leader, Think Beyond Your Role – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Sep (Thurs)

Life

• Bruce Lee on the Power of Repose and the Strength of Yielding: BP
• Henry David Thoreau on Reading: Farnam
• To Become a Leader, Think Beyond Your Role: HBR
• Revenge of the philosophy majors; In Silicon Valley, brilliant coding and engineering is a given. The real value added, increasingly, comes from the people who can sell and humanise. Which is why tech startups suddenly crave liberal arts majors: Forbes
• 11 Things Smart People Won’t Say: Forbes
• LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman explains how the CEO role evolves as a company grows: BI
• Kiva’s Jessica Jackley: How Entrepreneurs Can Do a Lot with a Little: K@W
• J. Crew’s famous creative director reveals the advice that changed her career: BI
• Small Business and the Secret of Big Growth: WSJ
• The Great Books? Think again: Liberal-arts majors could become a thing of the past: MW
• How To Build Relationships As An Underdog: A Real Success Story from Ben Franklin’s Early Life: LinkedIn
• Hire People Who Aren’t Like You (and Other Tricks We’ve Learned While Transforming GM): LinkedIn

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My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought; To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1-2 Sep (Tues+Wed)

Life

• My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought: SN
• To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company: WSJ
• How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy: HBR
•  A CEO says this is one quality entrepreneurs need to be successful: BI
• Leadership is about understanding people, and you can learn a lot from reading about literature, art, and politics.: Strategy&
• 4 lessons in storytelling from a screenwriter who’s also a d&d dungeon master: FastCo
• 11 Secrets Of Irresistible People: Forbes
• To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved; Time management goes only so far; the emotional reasons for delay must also be addressed: WSJ

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August 31, 1837: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 31 Aug (Mon)

Life

• August 31, 1837: Emerson’s Superb Speech on the Life of the Mind, the Art of Creative Reading, and the Building Blocks of Genius: BP
• Bias from Association: Why We Shoot the Messenger: BP
• Guidance for the negative thinker in all of us: WaPo
• A Technique for Producing Ideas: Farnam

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In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roar; Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 30 Aug (Sun)

Life

• A father’s bad experience at ice cream truck led him to start one of the most successful modern franchises: Kona Ice Shaver: BI
• Free time is the dry powder of productive people: Forbes
• ‘We moved faster than our customers could move,’ and other lessons (or excuses) from 135 startup failures: FP
• ‘I’ve never felt more isolated’: The man who sold Minecraft to Microsoft for $2.5 billion reveals the empty side of success: BI

Books

• In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars : Amazon
• Obliquity: Why Our Goals Are Best Achieved Indirectly : Amazon

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The thing I look for in a developer is a longtime love of coding—people who taught themselves to code in high school and still can’t get enough of it. The eager but not innately passionate coders being churned out of 12- and 19-week boot camps in New York tend not to be the best: There are not enough who love coding for its own sake – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 29 Aug (Sat)

Life

• The thing I look for in a developer is a longtime love of coding—people who taught themselves to code in high school and still can’t get enough of it. The eager but not innately passionate coders being churned out of 12- and 19-week boot camps in New York tend not to be the best: There are not enough who love coding for its own sake: WSJ
• Can a company innovate without working its employees to death? “I don’t think there was any work-life balance while the Sistine Chapel ceiling was being painted”: WaPo
• The Trick to Acting Heroically: Valor is instinctive, not carefully reasoned: NYT
• Here’s the real story behind Martin Luther King Jr.’s greatest moment: BI
• 3 ways Steve Jobs made meetings insanely productive — and often terrifying: BI

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5 Ways To Transform Empathy Into Lifelong Success; Happy Birthday, Goethe: The Beloved Poet on Beginner’s Mind and Choosing One’s Influences – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 Aug (Fri)

Life 

• 5 Ways To Transform Empathy Into Lifelong Success: Forbes
• Happy Birthday, Goethe: The Beloved Poet on Beginner’s Mind and Choosing One’s Influences: BP
• Philippines Chief Justice suggests semimonastic life for judges; “If we can take away ostentatiousness and extravagance as a life goal for those aspiring to be members of the judiciary, and allow them to live a simple life, then I think we will have a more proactive system of inculcating the right values in the judiciary,”: AsiaOne
• Left brain, right stuff; Phil Rosenzweig, the IMD Professor and author talks about the importance of recognizing your ability to affect outcomes: Forbes
• Here’s the best way to tell if someone’s lying, according to science: BI
• Being Picky About Customers Early On Can Bolster Long-Term Success: NYT
• A Simple Yet Powerful Way to Handle a Stress Episode: HBR
• When Everyone Is Doing Design Thinking, Is It Still a Competitive Advantage?: HBR

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25 quotes that take you inside Albert Einstein’s revolutionary mind; Munger on How to Weigh the Importance of Easily Available Information: Look for disconfirming evidence – killing your own ideas; Emphasize factors that don’t produce lots of easily available numbers – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 27 Aug (Thurs)

Life

• 25 quotes that take you inside Albert Einstein’s revolutionary mind: BI
• Munger on How to Weigh the Importance of Easily Available Information; Look for disconfirming evidence – killing your own ideas; Emphasize factors that don’t produce lots of easily available numbers: Gurufocus
• Grow from Your Strengths: The only sustainable way to capture new opportunities is to remain true to what your company does best.: Strategy&
• Willa Cather on Happiness: A Soulful and Deeply Alive Account of True Bliss; “That is happiness; to be dissolved into something complete and great.”: BP
• Amanda Palmer’s Extraordinary BBC Open Letter on the Choice to Have a Child as a Working Artist: BP
• Hegel on Knowledge, Impatience, the Peril of Fixed Opinions, and the True Task of the Human Mind: BP
• Mistakes and the Creative Process: Farnam
• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Charlie Munger about Mental Models and Worldly Wisdom: 25iq
• This is how NASA used to hire its astronauts 20 years ago—and it still works today: qz
• The Reason Smart People Sometimes Struggle with “Aha” Moments: HBR
• The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers: Economist
• Harvard says these 8 leadership traits are critical for success: BI
• The javelin thrower who won gold at the World Championships learned how to throw from YouTube videos: BI
• Peter Thiel on what works at work: The tech entrepreneur talks about the ‘features and bugs’ of companies, society and his own personality. WaPo
• Jeffrey Pfeffer’s Required Reading. The Stanford professor calls out four books that illuminate the often-dark paths to power.: Strategy&

Books

• Hard Facts, Dangerous Half-Truths And Total Nonsense: Profiting From Evidence-Based Management: Amazon

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The benefits of a liberal education do not go out of date: The belief that study should be focused more on job-specific knowledge is misconceived – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 26 Aug (Wed)

Life

• The benefits of a liberal education do not go out of date; The belief that study should be focused more on job-specific knowledge is misconceived: FT
• The Genius Of Zero-Billion-Dollar Markets: How Netflix and others tackled markets that didn’t exist. RW
• 15 Critical Habits Of Mentally Strong People: Forbes
• Cash In On The Gift That Is Grit: Techcrunch
• How to be less busy and more productive at work: Fortune
• Data-Driven Management Can Also Be Compassionate: HBR
• 9 ways to become a more interesting person: BI
• Why some billionaires are bad for growth, and others aren’t; Not all inequality is created equal; How much wealth comes from political connections?: WaPo

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Buckminster Fuller’s Brilliant Metaphor for the Greatest Key to Transformation and Growth: Trimtab; “What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 24 Aug (Mon)

Life

• Buckminster Fuller’s Brilliant Metaphor for the Greatest Key to Transformation and Growth; “What you do with yourself, just the little things you do yourself, these are the things that count.”: BP
• How To Increase Mental Toughness: 4 Secrets Of Navy SEALs And Olympians: Barker
• Sweden’s ‘lagom’ philosophy in the office; Teamwork and work-life balance are part of the Swedish mindset: FT
• The Man Behind Modern Math: After Fibonacci introduced Arabic numbers to Europe in the 13th century, commerce flourished. Naturally, government tried to stop him. Barron’s
• Asia’s history: Brilliant threads; An ambitious work pushes world history’s focus eastward: Economist
• Why Introverts Make Great Entrepreneurs; Conventional wisdom says you need to be an extrovert to start a successful business. That’s wrong for all sorts of reasons. WSJ

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You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C’s to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 23 Aug (Sun)

Life

• A Mythbuster And More Discuss The Rise Of The Makers: Forbes
• Introducing Fortune’s Change the World list: Companies that are doing well by doing good; How companies can enrich shareholders-and the planet; 3 companies attacking familiar problems in new ways: Fortune
• Fafsa Follies: To Gain a Student, Eliminate a Form; Removing the application for federal aid would encourage more qualified low-income students to apply to college.: NYT

Books

•  You Win in the Locker Room First: The 7 C’s to Build a Winning Team in Business, Sports, and Life : Amazon

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Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter; What it Takes to Become a Socially Intelligent Leader – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 Aug (Sat)

Life

• What it Takes to Become a Socially Intelligent Leader: BI
• The head of Silicon Valley’s most intense startup factory shares how founders can double their chance of success: “In general, startups get distracted by fake work. Fake work is both easier and more fun than real work for many founders”; What happens to those startups is that they go on to focus more on speaking at conferences, talking to the media, or rearchitecting their infrastructure than they do at focusing on growth. BI
• What Makes a Great Investment Article?: TII
• How Jennifer Lawrence went from obscurity to become the highest-paid actress in the world in 5 years: BI
• 42 easily confused English terms that make global travelers look ridiculous: qz

Books

• Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter: Amazon
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts : Amazon

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The core factor of success is focus, and here’s how to get it; Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 Aug (Fri)

Life

• The core factor of success is focus, and here’s how to get it: qz
• How a 29-year-old went from living on welfare to starting a business that earned nearly $1 million in its first year: BI
• Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings: PERMA = Positive Emotion (Peace, gratitude, satisfaction, pleasure, inspiration, hope, curiosity, and love), Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment: HBR
• When workers are owner: The received wisdom that employee ownership is a good thing comes with caveats: Economist
• John Mackey: The conscious capitalist: Fortune
• We are all sophists now — or should be; The most resilient skill in the modern world is argument: FT

Books

• Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom: Amazon

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Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen; TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 Aug (Thurs)

Life

• How to influence the right corporate culture in your business (and why it matters): FP
• This guy figured out a way to get free Starbucks every day – and it’s driving his barista crazy: BI
• Deskspace: scribes, Dickens and the latest chapter in the story of desks; Forget hot-desking – ‘not-desking’ is the new way to show status: FT
• Black Arts: The $800 Million Family Selling Art Degrees and False Hopes : Forbes
• How CEOs Can Adopt a 21st-century Approach to Communication: K@W

Books

• Taking People with You: The Only Way to Make Big Things Happen: Amazon
• TouchPoints: Creating Powerful Leadership Connections in the Smallest of Moments: Amazon

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How one woman turned her passion for tinkering into a $33 million business – without a dime of funding; “It’s harder to be kind than clever. Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Aug (Wed)

Life

• How one woman turned her passion for tinkering into a $33 million business – without a dime of funding: BI
• What Jeff Bezos Really Told Princeton Grads About Kindness; Bezos’s overarching theme was the importance of people choosing to be nice to one another, instead of using intellect as a blunt weapon. bloomberg
• This man invented the digital camera in 1975 — and his bosses at Kodak never let it see the light of day: BI

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The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How One Blossoms into Being an Artist; How one CEO went from a teenage runaway living in an Indian slum to founding a billion-dollar company – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Aug (Tues)

Life

• The Inner Light of Creativity: Vivian Gornick on How One Blossoms into Being an Artist: BP
• How one CEO went from a teenage runaway living in an Indian slum to founding a billion-dollar company: BI
• Innovation: Not a Straight Arrow; ‘You can’t connect the dots looking forward’: Insead
• Louise Bourgeois on Art, Integrity, the Trap of False Humility, and the Key to Creative Confidence: BP
• 7 steps to help you bounce back from a failure stronger than ever: BI
• 10 Things You Should Start Doing Today To Motivate Yourself For Success: Forbes
• Hubris – How To Recognize It And How To Deal With It: Forbes
• ‘Dilbert’ creator: There’s a ‘clown genius’ behind Donald Trump’s campaign — and it’s why he’s unstoppable: BI, Dilbert
•  How Mark Cuban prevents his kids from becoming ‘entitled jerks’: BI
• A tech CEO shares the one quality all candidates should prove they have during the job interview: self-awareness; Don Charlton of Jazz on the Power of Candid Questions: BI, NYT
• Former Microsoft exec explains why Satya Nadella would’ve been his ‘only’ internal choice for CEO: BI
• In Praise of Slowness: Challenging the Cult of Speed: Farnam
• Teenager who hated school but set out to become a tycoon; Yasser Khattak focused on plugs and switches to find a solution to an everyday problem: FT
• Bedtime Stories for Young Brains: NYT
• Jeff Bezos and Amazon Employees Join Debate Over Its Culture; Depiction of Amazon Stirs a Debate About Work Culture: NYT1, 2
• The Missing ‘Leadership Principle’ at Amazon; The online retail giant has maintained a disruptive spirit, but it may need to adapt its corporate culture to keep employees happy: Bloomberg
• Admitting You Don’t Know, When You’re the CEO: HBR
• “It is easier to focus if you don’t go home,” explained a young employee named Jeffrey Bezos, who went on to found the Internet retailing giant Amazon.” : TII
• Teaching Entrepreneurs to Do More Than Dream; Many U.S. business-school graduates can’t create a realistic profit-and-loss statement: WSJ

Books

• The Other “F” Word: How Smart Leaders, Teams, and Entrepreneurs Put Failure to Work: Amazon

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Creativity’s Most Underappreciated Component: Persistence – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Aug (Mon)

Life

• Creativity’s Most Underappreciated Component: Persistence; New research suggests we give up too easily when confronted with a problem that requires creative thinking. PSMag
• In Praise of Missing Out in a Culture of FOMO: Psychoanalyst Adam Phillips on the Value of Our Unlived Lives: BP
• How IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad became one of the richest self-made billionaires: BI

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Light shines brightest when it is dark – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 Aug (Sun)

Life

• Light shines brightest when it is dark: Star
• How to raise innovative kids: WaPo
• Babies Make Predictions, Too; People often say that babies are like sponges. Lately, a very different picture, called ‘predictive coding,’ has been making a splash in neuroscience; A new study suggests that as babies start to figure out the world, they think a lot like Sherlock Holmes: WSJ
• Jeff Bezos: five things we learned from the Amazon founder: Telegraph

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23 fascinating diagrams reveal how to negotiate with people around the world; The more people love their jobs, the quicker they become financially independent – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15 Aug (Sat)

Life

• 23 fascinating diagrams reveal how to negotiate with people around the world: BI
• The more people love their jobs, the quicker they get rich: BI
• Create a Culture Where Difficult Conversations Aren’t So Hard: HBR
• The End of the Ambitious Summer Reading List; For more than a century, Americans saw their vacations as a semisacred space for tackling challenging books. Not anymore: WSJ

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How to Begin Each Day: A Recipe for Unshakable Sanity and Inner Peace from Marcus Aurelius – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 14 Aug (Fri)

Life

• How to Begin Each Day: A Recipe for Unshakable Sanity and Inner Peace from Marcus Aurelius: BP
• In the ’90s, two companies were using the same motto. They arm wrestled to see who got to keep it.: UW
• William Deresiewicz: How To Learn How To Think: Farnam
• 15 Years Later, Todd Krizelman, Founder Of An Infamous Dotcom Flameout, Finds Success: Forbes
• A Case For Embracing Uncertainty (And Turning It Into Competitive Advantage): Forbes
• The Emotions That Make Us More Creative: HBR
• Conflict Is a Matter of the Heart; Learn to develop a mind-set of curiosity, rather than one of conviction. Strategy&
• How Pepsi CEO Indra Nooyi motivates herself every morning: BI

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40 years of Sholay: Lessons for Corporate India from Amitabh Bachchan – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13 Aug (Thurs)

Life

• 40 years of Sholay: Lessons for Corporate India from Amitabh Bachchan: Business Standard
• That little voice in our head: Star
• Octopuses, genes and intelligence: Tentacles that think; Studying cephalopods may illuminate the evolution of brains of all sorts: Economist
• Shooting for Start-up Success? Take a Detour: K@W
• Never call your customers. Research shows phoning customers is outdated, intrusive and most importantly, nothing but a waste of time.: TheAge

Books

• Business Book Award longlist: must-read titles of 2015: FT
• The Innovation Paradox: Why Good Businesses Kill Breakthroughs and How They Can Change: Amazon, CFA

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Dvekut baMesima: Mesima means “mission.” Dvekut means “glued to.” Adherence to the mission. The inner world of the warrior and the artist can be almost identical. Both know as they embark on an operation that they will encounter opposition, often fierce, occasionally violent – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 12 Aug (Wed)

Life

• Dvekut baMesima: Mesima means “mission.” Dvekut means “glued to.” Adherence to the mission. The inner world of the warrior and the artist can be almost identical. Both know as they embark on an operation that they will encounter opposition, often fierce, occasionally violent. Both know that circumstances will compel them to adapt, to improvise. Both know that they will sustain casualties. Sacrifices must be made. Both accept the reality that every yard of dirt comes at a price. The mission devours you, but it feeds you too: SP
• The One Thing Every Great Company Has In Common: Authenticity: techcrunch
• 8 Powerful Ways To Mold Your Children Into Leaders: Forbes
• In The Age of Disruption, Customer Love Is More Important Than Ever: techcrunch
• Thinking Like a Leader: Three Big Shifts: From linearity to complexity. From “focus” as a noun to “focus” as a verb. From they to you. : Strategy&
• Schopenhauer: On Reading and Books: Farnam
• From interviews to eavesdropping, the conversations continue: FT
• The biggest mistakes people make when choosing a life partner: qz
• How to Give Tough Feedback That Helps People Grow: HBR
• When First Movers Are Rewarded, and When They’re Not: HBR
• PepsiCo’s Chief Design Officer on Creating an Organization Where Design Can Thrive: HBR

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The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love; A sweet celebration of all that is alive and wonderful, inside us and in the outside world we shape together – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 11 Aug (Tues)

Life

• The Little Gardener: A Tender Illustrated Parable of Purpose and the Power of Working with Love; A sweet celebration of all that is alive and wonderful, inside us and in the outside world we shape together. BP
• Parker Palmer’s Spectacular Commencement Address on the Six Pillars of the Examined Life: BP
• Why one big company asks job candidates how they would describe the color yellow to a blind person: BI
• Worrying About the Future, Ruminating on the Past-How Thoughts Affect Mental Health; Researchers study the role of negative repetitive thinking in depression, anxiety, substance abuse and eating disorders. WSJ

Books

• Thank You For Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, And Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion : Amazon

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How To Be Loved By Everyone: 6 Powerful Secrets – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 10 Aug (Mon)

Life

• How To Be Loved By Everyone: 6 Powerful Secrets: Barker
• Why do startups fail: Part 3; Entrepreneur Tallat Mahmood shares the psychology behind startup failure and how best to avoid it: e27
• ‘If You Can’t Measure It, You Can’t Manage It’ (False): Forbes
• Lessons In Curation From Four Killer Content Curators: Forbes
• The Suicide of the Liberal Arts: Indoctrinating students isn’t the same as teaching them. Homer and Shakespeare have much to tell us about how to think and how to live. WSJ
• Someone must speak up for the extroverts on a team; For every Bill Gates you needed a Steve Ballmer to leap around sweating and screaming: FT

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Einstein Was Boring Before He Was Brilliant; In reality, innovation almost always requires long periods of quiet traditional training – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 9 Aug (Sun)

Life

• Einstein Was Boring Before He Was Brilliant; In reality, innovation almost always requires long periods of quiet traditional training. CalNewport
• If You’re Empathetic, You Probably Aren’t Into AC/DC; A new technique links your musical taste with your cognitive type—and could help firms like Spotify suggest music to users; Testers who scored high on empathy tended to prefer mellow music: WSJ

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What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Being a Son and a Father – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 8 Aug (Sat)

Life

• What Steve Jobs Taught Me About Being a Son and a Father: NYT
• 11 famous executives who majored in philosophy: BI
• A 6-Part Structure for Giving Clear and Actionable Feedback: HBR
• 7 incredibly useful lessons I learned from Harvard Business School’s new online course: BI
• Man vs. machine: The true story of an ex-cop’s war on lie detectors: Bloomberg
• Proof you’re not making business decisions quick enough: Fortune
• How brands can continue to thrive: BT
• Richard Scudamore, executive chairman of the English Premier League, the world’s richest football league, is steward to a billion-dollar phenomenon: BT
• Eye Shape May Help Distinguish Predator From Prey: NYT
• Remembering Hiroshima, and How It Changed the World; Nagasaki, the Forgotten City: NYT, NYT2

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Treasure the Singapore Character – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 7 Aug (Fri)

Life

• Treasure the Singapore Character; Singapore Character: Unis have key role: ST1,, ST2, MOE
• Lies, damned lies — and the statistical needs of users: FT
• Your completely hidden power of persuasion: FastCo

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“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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5 ways mentally strong people approach risk-taking; The man who discovered penicillin was a national hero. But the woman who made it available to millions died in relative obscurity; To accept that one may at times be wrong is a mark not of stupidity but of intelligence – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4-5 Aug (Tues/Wed)

Life

• 5 ways mentally strong people approach risk-taking: BI
• The man who discovered penicillin was a national hero. But the woman who made it available to millions died in relative obscurity: WSJ
• Keynes was halfway right about the facts: To accept that one may at times be wrong is a mark not of stupidity but of intelligence: FT
• Nobel Laureate André Gide on What It Really Means to Be Original and Goethe’s Paradoxical Model of Creativity: BP
• He sold all his assets to buy firm he works in: Meinhardt’s Shahzad Nasim: AsiaOne
• 17 billionaires who were once dirt poor: BI
• Simone Weil on True Genius and the Crushing Illusion of Inferiority: BP
•  How to Distribute Leadership: High performing organisations distribute leadership to wherever the best information and capabilities reside. Insead
• 20/20 Foresight: Many business leaders need to improve their perceptual acuity. Here’s how you can develop the ability to look around corners — and become a catalyst for change. Strategy&
• Thinking Like a Leader: Three Big Shifts: Strategy&
• Where Buddha was born: BBC
• Guess how to blow $1.5 billion: The Marciano brothers made Guess the sexiest name in jeans and themselves a $2.7 billion fortune at its peak. Today the family and business are in tatters: Forbes
• Jonathan Bendor: Why criticism is good for innovation: Forbes
• Here’s how Jake Gyllenhaal feels about losing out on Batman and Spider-Man roles; “I believe whatever happens, happens for good.”: BI, dailymail
• Researchers discovered a linguistic trick that will help you negotiate anything; Focus on what you’re giving the other person as opposed to what they’re losing. BI
• The language you speak may affect your ability to get rich: BI
• Here’s why Taylor Swift wrote that Apple letter; The singer details her motivations in a new interview: Fortune
• How 17 famous companies got their quirky names: BI
•  New ‘gig’ economy spells end to lifetime careers; Full-time employees are being recast into contractors, vendors and temporary workers: FT

Books

• The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work: Amazon
• The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change: Amazon
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