Deep lessons from a little tree; The Wisdom of Seneca: A Lawyer’s Advice For Life In The Fast Lane – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Aug (Mon)

Life

• Deep lessons from a little tree: Star
• The Wisdom of Seneca: A Lawyer’s Advice For Life In The Fast Lane: Farnam
• Tommy Koh: Letter to my grandchildren in 2065: ST
• 10 things successful leaders remember when things go wrong: BI
• Interact with a wider circle and your ideas will take flight: FT
• Tricks to engage an audience by being lost for words: FT
• Haruki Murakami: the moment I knew I would be a novelist; Murakami reveals how a baseball game – and a wounded pigeon – changed the course of his life: Telegraph
• The importance of stupidity in scientific research: biologists
• Use these two words on your college essay to get into Harvard: FastCo
• The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction: Farnam
• The most common lies told by startup CEOs; Some startup founders tend to exaggerate on growth rate, funding, number of staff to make things look bigger and better than they really are: e27

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Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: “Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 2 Aug (Sun)

Life

• What You Miss When You Take Notes on Your Laptop; Research shows the many benefits of taking notes by hand. HBR
• How Finns Make Sports Part Of Everyday Life: NPR
• How HeyHuman Uses Neuroscience To Motivate Consumers: Forbes
• America’s Oldest Billion-Dollar Family Fortunes: Forbes

Books

• Dropping Ashes on the Buddha: The Teachings of Zen Master Seung Sahn; “Somebody comes into the Zen center with a lighted cigarette, walks up to the Buddha statue, blows smoke in its face, and drops ashes on its lap. You are standing there. What can you do?” Amazon

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A Dozen Things Charlie Munger has said about Reading; This single quote from one of Disney’s great innovators could motivate you to create almost anything – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1 Aug (Sat)

Life

• A Dozen Things Charlie Munger has said about Reading: 25iq
• This single quote from one of Disney’s great innovators could motivate you to create almost anything: BI
• Malcolm Gladwell: More data doesn’t mean you know everything: Geekwire
• Disrupting beliefs: A new approach to business-model innovation: McKinsey
• What Emotions Are (and Aren’t); Most people believe that emotions are distinct, locatable entities inside us – but they’re not. No brain region is dedicated to any single emotion. NYT
• Words, when selected carefully, can paint a unique picture for your business: FP
• What Birds Understand That Einstein Didn’t; Quantum weirdness helps explain how plants make food, animals migrate and humans think. WSJ
• How Shake Shack made a 70-year-old font Neutra hot again: Wired
• 8 principles of 50 Cent’s business philosophy, according to the book he co-wrote about power: BI
• Abdul Kalam, Indian aeronautical engineer and president, 1931-2015: FT
• What students should really be learning; ‘By using the wisdom of cyber crowds, the hope is that we can all shape education in a way that reflects economic change’: FT

Dreams

• Dream It! Do It!: My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms: Amazon

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The Power of Admitting Your Own Errors-Like Tom Brady? Michelangelo on Poverty, Creative Integrity, and the Right Not To Be Interrupted – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 31 Jul (Fri)

Life

• The Power of Admitting Your Own Errors-Like Tom Brady? WSJ
• Michelangelo on Poverty, Creative Integrity, and the Right Not To Be Interrupted: BP
• 5 easy steps to building a phenomenally successful career in any field: Be deeply curious about advancing in your field. Learn how to get the people around you to do the best they can. Care deeply. BI
• Programming for four-year-olds: How to teach computer science in nursery school: Economist
• This one-minute morning routine can improve your productivity all day long: BI
• The ‘cookie monster’ study reveals how power corrupts people: BI
• Want to be president? Show us how you’d handle a disaster. WaPo
• I just binge-read eight books by Donald Trump. Here’s what I learned. WaPo
• Never too early to start succession planning in a family business; From the moment the Yung Kee restaurant sold its first goose in Wellington Street, Central, in the 1960s, its founder Kam Shui-fai groomed two of his sons for management roles. Following his death, the younger son Ronald Kam Kwan-lai underhandedly stripped the eldest son Kinsen Kam Kwan-sing of his management role at the restaurant: SCMP
•  7 scientists who are helping us understand how the world works: BI
•  8 classic novels that will make you a better leader: BI

Books

• The Resilient Enterprise: Overcoming Vulnerability for Competitive Advantage: Amazon

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“Immerse yourself in the common ground of the universe so that your true voice – not the egoistic voice that clamors vainly for power (for it will ruin you if you listen to it) – your authentic voice may be heard.”; 9 books that will inspire your kids to build, invent, and engineer – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 30 Jul (Thurs)

Life

• “Immerse yourself in the common ground of the universe so that your true voice – not the egoistic voice that clamors vainly for power (for it will ruin you if you listen to it) – your authentic voice . may be heard.”: BP
• 9 books that will inspire your kids to build, invent, and engineer: BI
• LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman shares 3 lessons he learned from the failure of his first company: BI
• The Power Of Words: GF1, GF2
• Poland’s wealthiest entrepreneur, Jan Kulczyk, dies, aged 65; Jan Kulczyk, who played a central role in Poland’s post-communist transformation has died, aged 65, after complications following surgery: FT
• Unlocking the Three-fold Secret to Great Leadership: K@W
• The First Step to Successful Innovation? Choosing the Right Partners: K@W
• Organizational Culture: The Payoff Is in the Blend: CFO
• Today’s Exhausted Superkids: NYT
• That ‘Useless’ Liberal Arts Degree Has Become Tech’s Hottest Ticket: Forbes
• The non-business classics that inspire; works of fiction, biographies and histories can offer solid career and business advice to the ambitious because they are more reflective of the deeper human psyche: FT
• Shareholder value is a cover for over-mighty chief executives; The critique of dividends and buybacks by the BoE’s Andy Haldane begs a vital question: FT
• How Intelligence Shifts With Age; We seem to get slower and wiser at the same time: WSJ
• 3 common words that make you sound rude in emails: BI

Books

• The Folly of Fools: The Logic of Deceit and Self-Deception in Human Life: Amazon

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‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary shares the best advice he received in his 20s: “To be or not to be?” isn’t the question. The question is: “What are you willing to do in order to be what you want to be?” You have to want to do all the necessary difficult things that are required to support that goal; The Structure of Gratitude; G. K. Chesterton wrote that “thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 29 Jul (Wed)

Life

• ‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary shares the best advice he received in his 20s: “To be or not to be?” isn’t the question. The question is: “What are you willing to do in order to be what you want to be?” You have to want to do all the necessary difficult things that are required to support that goal. BI
• The Structure of Gratitude; G. K. Chesterton wrote that “thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.”: NYT
• How To Build Your Resilience To Be An Entrepreneur: Forbes
• ‘Shark Tank’ investor Kevin O’Leary’s 5 best business mantras: BI
• A 2004 email from Jeff Bezos explains why Powerpoint presentations aren’t allowed at Amazon: The reason writing a 4 page memo is harder than “writing” a 20 page powerpoint is because the narrative structure of a good memo forces better thought and better understanding of what’s more important than what, and how things are related. BI
• Why most definitions of leadership are wrong: BI
• Why Leaders Should Create Meaningful Environments; Organisations that empower and give meaning to their members are not only more dignified but also more innovative. BI
• How great leaders create conditions for performance; The best leaders start with caring, then create the “right” emotions for success. Nation
• How This Mom Built a $10M Pest-Control Business From Home: Forbes
• 5 Big Mistakes Poor Negotiators Make: Forbes
• How to borrow some of the start-up genie’s magic; Working with accelerators and incubators can help established companies: FT
• This Italian company pioneered innovative startup culture—in the 1930s: qz
• Mark Cuban just praised Donald Trump for being ‘the best thing to happen to politics’ in recent history: He gives honest answers rather than prepared answers. This is more important than anything any candidate has done in years: BI
• ‘Impossible’ propellantless engine appears to work despite breaking laws of physics: TheAge

Books

• Rising Strong by Brene Brown: When we deny our stories, they define us. When we own our stories, we get to write the ending.: Amazon
• Stronger: Develop the Resilience You Need to Succeed: Amazon

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To master any skill, use the learning technique that scared Bruce Lee; 13 secrets for performing better under pressure – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 Jul (Tues)

Life

• To master any skill, use the learning technique that scared Bruce Lee: qz
• 13 secrets for performing better under pressure: BI
• David Politis of BetterCloud: Start by Working Beyond Your Résumé; “Whether it’s a company or a market, go where you can actually have a real impact on the business” : NYT
• The music you like says a lot about how your brain processes information: BI
• The Ten Golden Rules of Leadership: Classical Wisdom for Modern Leaders: Farnam
• Love of learning is the key to success in the jobless future: WaPo
• Not an Introvert, Not an Extrovert? You May Be An Ambivert; Sometimes social, sometimes solitary, ambiverts often make good sales people: WSJ

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Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’; Why Empathy Matters In Investing – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 27 Jul (Mon)

Life

• Daniel Kahneman: ‘What would I eliminate if I had a magic wand? Overconfidence’: Guardian
• 10 CEOs who prove liberal arts degrees aren’t worthless: BI
• Susan Cain Instigates a ‘Quiet Revolution’ of Introverts With Speeches and Company: NYT
• 7 things you can do to be a better communicator: BI
• 7 ways to talk about yourself without sounding like a jerk: BI

Investing Process

• Why Empathy Matters In Investing: Fundoo
• The going gets tough for value managers: FT

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The one thing all entrepreneurial people have in common; Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value; The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World’s Toughest Problems – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 26 Jul (Sun)

Life

• The one thing all entrepreneurial people have in common: BI
• How an investing giant taught Chicago kids financial literacy and disproved the doubters: Fortune
• People Offer Better Ideas When They Can’t See What Others Suggest: HBR

Books

• Higher Ambition: How Great Leaders Create Economic and Social Value : amazon
• The Key: How Corporations Succeed by Solving the World’s Toughest Problems : amazon
• High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage: amazon

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‘Shark Tank’ investor Robert Herjavec shares 6 business lessons he learned from waiting tables; 4 Powerful Mantras to Help You Deal with Fear and Anxiety; 7 ways mentally strong people take advantage of solitude – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 25 Jul (Sat)

Life

• ‘Shark Tank’ investor Robert Herjavec shares 6 business lessons he learned from waiting tables: BI
• 4 Powerful Mantras to Help You Deal with Fear and Anxiety: TinyBuddha
• 7 ways mentally strong people take advantage of solitude: BI
• The Singular Mind of Terry Tao: A prodigy grows up to become one of the greatest mathematicians in the world.: NYT
• Dangers of the culture of obedience: Star
• Father of modern human resources: Rather than ‘roadblocks, impediments and policy police’, HR units can instead be enablers of business results, says consultant Dave Ulrich. BT
• How These Independent Artists Reached No. 1 On The iTunes Chart: Forbes
• The Science of Stress and How Our Emotions Affect Our Susceptibility to Burnout and Disease: BP

Books

• Floating City: A Rogue Sociologist Lost and Found in New York’s Underground Economy: Amazon

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An Investing Principles Checklist From Poor Charlie’s Almanack; Why you should pursue your dreams even if no one encourages you; Why a safe job is risky business – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 24 Jul (Fri)

Life

• Why you should pursue your dreams even if no one encourages you: BI
• Why a safe job is risky business for Singapore: ST
• This is what makes Mark Zuckerberg an excellent CEO: The willingness to admit failure and the ability to understand and recognize disruption before it takes hold: BI
• Lee Kuan Yew had ‘very deep influence’ on me: PM Lee: BT
• Creator Toru Iwatani explains why people have loved Pac-Man for 35 years; “The reason why Pac-Man has been a worldwide hit for so long is because we considered human feelings when developing the concept for this game, he appeals to simple human emotions: Fortune
• 9 habits of the most influential people: BI
• The More Experience You Have, the Worse You Are at Bootstrapping: HBR
•  20 successful entrepreneurs share the most important lesson they learned in their 20s: BI
• The 3 things that separate a leader from a manager: Managers keep an organization functioning and leaders work to build a shared vision. Managers rely on control and leaders inspire trust. BI
• How to identify annoying tourist-trap restaurants; Good restaurants are often situated away from popular locations.: AsiaOne
• Why half of the life you experience is over by age 7: WaPo
• How Happy Do Weekends Actually Make Us? A new study finds that people who like their jobs aren’t any happier on the weekends: Bloomberg
• How Shiism evolved: Powers of persuasion; Modern Shiites have a long and complicated history: Economist
• The enemy within: Rogue employees can wreak more damage on a company than competitors: Economist
• Strategies to soothe disrupted staff: FT
• Four of the five musicians with the biggest vocabularies are rappers—and the fifth is Bob Dylan: qz
• How a Cartoon Caption Contest Can Make You a Better Writer: HBR
• A Quick Guide to Avoiding Common Writing Errors: HBR
• Teaching Social Skills to Improve Grades and Lives: NYT
• Children With Autism Shouldn’t Be Forced to Socialize; Of course this doesn’t mean that children with autism are void of feelings, empathy or love; they are just less interested in pleasing others; people with autism place less emphasis on preserving their reputation or the impressions they leave. It is often these types of people who will advance society because they aren’t scared to suggest new ideas and stand out from the crowd in fear of embarrassment or ostracism. Conversation

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How Good Habits Can Make You Happier; The Rebellious and Revolutionary Life of Galileo, Illustrated; How a college dropout reordered the heavens and forever changed our understanding of our place in the universe – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 23 Jul (Thurs)

Life

• How Good Habits Can Make You Happier: K@W
• The Rebellious and Revolutionary Life of Galileo, Illustrated; How a college dropout reordered the heavens and forever changed our understanding of our place in the universe.: BP
• 23 of the Most Amazingly Successful Introverts in History: Inc
• The head coach of the 49ers once quit a six-figure job and lived out of a car while working as an unpaid college football assistant: BI
• 10 beliefs highly successful people share:BI
• Hiring for goodness not greatness lets startup founders manage less and trust more: BRW
• Culture, Capacity And Craftsmanship: How To Hire For A Startup: Techcruch
• Why Are There So Many Young Adult Writers On The Top-Earning Authors List?: Forbes
• 7 habits that can turn an employee into the CEO: BI
• What does the discovery of the world’s oldest Quran tell us?: qz
• Global CEOs Who Lack Language Skills Get Lost in Translation: Bloomberg

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Google cofounder Sergey Brin says these 2 books changed his life; What if the objective of one’s life is something other than optimization of discrete blocks of time and monetizing that time? – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 Jul (Wed)

Life

• Google cofounder Sergey Brin says these 2 books changed his life: BI
• 30 inspiring quotes from super-successful people that every professional should read: BI
• 10 Simple Statements That Will Make You Think Differently; Short bits of wisdom from good books. Fool
• “A single kindness can change everything” ; Pixar’s ‘The Good Dinosaur’ Trailer Promises a Visually Stunning, Emotional Journey: WSJ
• Do You Know What Your Time Is Really Worth? New online tools help people value an hour; the time vs. money trade-off; What if the objective of one’s life is something other than optimization of discrete blocks of time and monetizing that time? WSJ
• How to write, according to the woman who wrote some of Pink Floyd’s biggest hits: qz
• 7 Challenges Successful People Overcome: Forbes
• In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings; “The art of leadership is not to spend your time measuring, evaluating,” ; The death knell for performance (review) anxiety?: WaPo, TheAge
• Here’s how to get through the workday after a sleepless night: BI
• I tried a strange fruit some scientists think could solve world hunger: BI
• After more than a decade, one of the best comic series which showed why adults should care about fairy tales is coming to an end: BI
• How to preserve a startup culture as a company grows: Forbes

Books

• Why Don’t We Learn from History?: Amazon
• Myths and Mortals: Family Business Leadership and Succession Planning; Review: Myths and Mortals, Why Family Business Succession Fails: Amazon, FT
• The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism : Amazon
• Book: The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease; Kicking the Habit: If addiction is a brain disease, addicts are mad, sick and defective. If it’s a failure of will, users are bad, immoral and weak.: WSJ

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Life lessons 9 successful people learned from failing; The Power of Gratitude; Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe; Scepticism can help us to build resistance to riveting ideas that turn out to be duds – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 Jul (Tues)

Life

• Life lessons 9 successful people learned from failing: BI
• The Power of Gratitude: Insead
• Billy Beane on Making Better Decisions, Challenging Entrenched Thinking, and Avoiding Biases: Farnam
• How Situations Influence Decisions: Farnam
• The key to long-term success; Growing a business goes beyond selling high-quality products. Fortune
• Write 40+ books in your lifetime using Anthony Trollope’s 15-minute daily routine: qz
• 12 psychological tricks to winning people over: BI
• A scientist who studies psychopaths found out he was one by accident – and it completely changed his life: BI
• Daughters taking over the family business; “One dirty little secret is that the advisers don’t like family businesses successors; they perceive that they are spoiled and entitled. But they are human beings like everyone else, and they sometimes have an agenda”: AsiaOne

Books

• Riveted: The Science of Why Jokes Make Us Laugh, Movies Make Us Cry, and Religion Makes Us Feel One with the Universe : Amazon

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‘We support Grouchy Smurf’: billlionaire owner-operator of Kyobo Life Insurance Shin Chang-jae encourages Kyobo staff to voice grumbles; “Think of an orchestra. If there are no musical notes, they will just stare at the conductor all the time” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 Jul (Mon)

Life

• ‘We support Grouchy Smurf’: billlionaire owner-operator of Kyobo Life Insurance Shin Chang-jae encourages Kyobo staff to voice grumbles; “Think of an orchestra. If there are no musical notes, they will just stare at the conductor all the time”: FT
• Disneyland’s diamond anniversary: can it keep the magic for another 60 years? The first Disneyland opened 60 years ago this weekend and no competitor since has managed to dent Disney’s dominance. But change is afoot. Can the Mouse House stay on top?: Telegraph
• Change Comes From the Margins: Opinionator
• The productivity trick one author used to write over 40 books: BI
• Wanted in College Graduates: Tolerance for Ambiguity; Excelling at any job is about doing the things you weren’t asked to do. – Mary Egan, founder of Gathered Table in Seattle and former senior vice president at Starbucks: Linkedin

Books

• Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World: Amazon
• The Emotionally Intelligent Investor: How self-awareness, empathy and intuition drive performance : Amazon

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As we journey through life, we must look beyond the current circumstances and let hope prevail – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Jul (Sun)

Life

• As we journey through life, we must look beyond the current circumstances and let hope prevail. Star
• Optical Inventions Opened the Modern World; The glass industry empowered the lens industry, which created reading glasses, microscopes, telescopes, and the modern world of science. Barron’s

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The Benefits Of Being A Total Zero; How a 60-year-old woman turned her $35 domain name into a $1.5 billion business – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Jul (Sat)

Life

• The Benefits Of Being A Total Zero: Techcrunch
• How a 60-year-old woman turned her $35 domain name into a $1.5 billion business: BI
• 5 Ways To Use Life’s Challenges To Make You Better, Not Bitter: Forbes
• Capitalism: Morality and the money motive; Growth’s guilty secret: the capitalist system is able to lift people out of poverty but struggles to create a just society: FT
• Angela Merkel’s incredible rise from quantum chemist to the world’s most powerful woman: BI
• From Gladiators to Mickey Mouse: Disneyland Turns 60: WSJ
• This guy came up with a brilliant way make his résumé stand out and heard back from 8 companies in a month: BI
• Heineken CEO explains the counterintuitive strategy that helped him become one of the company’s youngest leaders: BI

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Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either; Seven intelligent fanatics from India; At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Jul (Fri)

Life

• Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either. Fortune
• At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies; 6S = Seiri (Keep things organized), Seiton (Keep things available), Seiketsu (Keep yourself clean), Seiso (Keep things clean), Saho (Keep good manners), Shitsuke (Keep good discipline). Bloomberg
• TED Before Bed: One mother’s nightly ritual with her son: TED
• 9 TED Talks to inspire smart conversation: TED
• Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career: BI
• 13 things mentally strong people don’t do: BI
• Reading their minds: Animal congnition is an ever-growing field: Economist

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Billionaire Charlie Munger’s favorite life hack can help anyone be more successful; Here’s what Jeff Bezos says he’s looking for in an Amazon show: “One way you can think about TV is you can say, ‘I want to make something that millions and millions of people are going to watch.’ If that’s your starting point, you paint yourself into a corner and you often end up with homogenized, uninteresting content. If you say, ‘Let’s hire the world’s greatest storytellers. Let’s encourage them to take risks,’ then you’re going to end up with a remarkable story, and remarkable stories always find an audience.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 Jul (Thurs)

Life

• Billionaire Charlie Munger’s favorite life hack can help anyone be more successful: BI
• Here’s what Jeff Bezos says he’s looking for in an Amazon show: “One way you can think about TV is you can say, ‘I want to make something that millions and millions of people are going to watch.’ If that’s your starting point, you paint yourself into a corner and you often end up with homogenized, uninteresting content. If you say, ‘Let’s hire the world’s greatest storytellers. Let’s encourage them to take risks,’ then you’re going to end up with a remarkable story, and remarkable stories always find an audience.”: BI
• 25 super-successful people share their best career advice for 20-somethings: BI
• 5 habits visionary thinkers have in common: BI
• July 15, 1838: Young Emerson’s Extraordinary Harvard Divinity School Address; Speak the truth, and all nature and all spirits help you with unexpected furtherance.  BP
• How a debate between two of Wall Street’s most powerful CEOs went completely off the rails; “the problems you had in ’07, where you had brand names on a lot of these housing things; but worse than that, they believe there is liquidity here”: BI
• 3 ways flat management structures can kill your business; It’s not about choosing the trendiest flat organization to adopt. It’s about finding the one that works best for your company. FastCo
• Growing beyond the core business: McKinsey
• Diebold Grows Bold: The ATM maker is remaking itself into a services-driven company. An Interview with Christopher A. Chapman, SVP and CFO, Diebold. CFO
• Trump Builds One Brand and Damages Another; His true gift is an ability to exploit other people’s emotions, even those whose response to him is revulsion. It’s the art and craft of a demagogue.  NYT
• Here’s why Salma Hayek’s billionaire husband made her go back to work after having a baby: BI
• A Case of Successful Failure: Strategy&

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Pixar’s Ed Catmull: If something works, you shouldn’t do it again – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15 Jul (Wed)

Life

• Pixar’s Ed Catmull: If something works, you shouldn’t do it again. Fortune
• Apple’s HR chief: Working with Tim Cook ‘actually helps you to be a better human being’: BI
• One of the top producers in Hollywood shares the ‘superpower’ that’s shaped his success; Brian Galvin made it his mission to meet “every expert in the movie business” and ask them questions. He credits that spirit of inquiry – of genuine curiosity: BI
• The liberating power of the ‘Plan Z’ worst-case scenario: FT
• Patents are a terrible way to measure innovation: WaPo

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Larry Page’s new role model: Warren Buffett; Here’s how billionaire Mark Zuckerberg defines happiness: “To me, happiness is doing something meaningful that helps people and that I believe in with people I love.” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 14 Jul (Tues)

Life

• Here’s how billionaire Mark Zuckerberg defines happiness: “To me, happiness is doing something meaningful that helps people and that I believe in with people I love.”: BI
• Larry Page’s new role model: Warren Buffett: BI
• The CEO of a $2.8 billion startup says his favorite interview question is something we’ve all been answering since we were kids: BI
• What Entrepreneurs Can Learn From Authors: Forbes
• Rihanna reveals the hidden rock ‘n’ roll world of accountants: FT
• How To Improve Your Writing: 5 Secrets From Hollywood: Barker
• Beyond Bias: Neuroscience research shows how new organizational practices can shift ingrained thinking. Strategy&

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Four Ways Nintendo’s Iwata Changed the World of Gaming; Industry Foes, Fans Pay Tribute to Nintendo’s Late President; “On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13 Jul (Mon)

Life

• Four Ways Nintendo’s Iwata Changed the World of Gaming; Industry Foes, Fans Pay Tribute to Nintendo’s Late President; “On my business card, I am a corporate president. In my mind, I am a game developer. But in my heart, I am a gamer”: Bloomberg1, Bloomberg2
• Everybody is vulnerable at every stage of their lives; everybody is subject to illness, accident, personal tragedy, political and economic reality. This doesn’t mean that people aren’t also resilient and resourceful. Bearing other people’s vulnerability entails being able to bear one’s own. Indeed it would be realistic to say that what we have in common is our vulnerability; it is the medium of contact between us, what we most fundamentally recognize in each other. BP
• How billionaire Michael Bloomberg made his fortune: BI
• Researchers just discovered more than 5,000 new viruses in the ocean: BI

Books

• Surviving Survival: The Art and Science of Resilience: Amazon
• Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why: Amazon
• The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why: Amazon
• Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion: Amazon

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Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 12 Jul (Sun)

Life

• The CEO of one of the fastest growing business apps ever used an ingeniously simple analogy to explain why companies succeed; Stewart Butterfield of Slack: Is Empathy on Your Résumé?: BI, NYT
• Successful Startups Don’t Make Money Their Primary Mission: HBR
• Communicating a Corporate Vision to Your Team: HBR
• What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.: MJ
• Meet the ‘Sherlock Holmes’ of the art world: AsiaOne
• D.I.Y. Education Before YouTube: NYT

Books

• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor: Amazon
• Never Be Lied to Again: How to Get the Truth In 5 Minutes Or Less In Any Conversation Or Situation: Amazon

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Empathy Is Actually a Choice; What Would Buddha Say?: 1,501 Right-Speech Teachings for Communicating Mindfully; How Would Buddha Act?: 801 Right-Action Teachings for Living with Awareness and Intention – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 11 Jul (Sat)

Life

• Empathy Is Actually a Choice: NYT
• Why Sherlock Holmes endures; Holmes put it best: “Education never ends, Watson.”: WaPo
• The importance of diversity of thought for solving wicked problems: Forbes
• The Great Gift of Reading Aloud; To curl up with children and a good book has long been one of the great civilizing practices of domestic life, an almost magical entry point to the larger world of literature. WSJ
• Thoughts on corporate governance: Forbes
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh believes rave culture holds a key to business strategy: qz
• Career advice for millennials (and really, anyone) from Margaret Heffernan; In her career, Margaret Heffernan has been the CEO of five businesses. What advice does she have for people just starting their careers? TED
• Warren Buffett revealed this ‘great philosophy of life’ in a letter to a hedge fund manager: “I follow the dictum praise by name, criticize by category.”: BI
• With over 37 million YouTube subscribers and a reported $7.4 million earned last year, Felix “PewDiePie” Kjellberg is among the top YouTubers in the world : BI
• The CEO of A&E Networks shares the 3 types of people you need on every team: “You’re either a thinker, a doer, or a feeler.” : BI, NYT
• The world’s most popular TED speaker explains why schools should be more like farms, not factories: BI

Books

• What Would Buddha Say?: 1,501 Right-Speech Teachings for Communicating Mindfully: Amazon
• How Would Buddha Act?: 801 Right-Action Teachings for Living with Awareness and Intention: Amazon
• Taking Smart Risks: How Sharp Leaders Win When Stakes are High: Amazon
• The Great Detective: The Amazing Rise and Immortal Life of Sherlock Holmes : Amazon
• Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals, Amazon, BI

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29 incredibly successful people who failed at first – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 10 Jul (Fri)

Life

• 29 incredibly successful people who failed at first: BI
• The founder of Sam Adams created a unique ‘speed coaching’ method for entrepreneurs: BI
• What we can all learn from the gutsy way 13-year-old Steve Jobs landed a job at HP: BI

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The Key to Making Smarter Long-term Decisions; Instead of following your passion, find a career that changes people’s lives; Flannery O’Connor on Art, Integrity, and the Writer’s Responsibility to His or Her Talent – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 9 Jul (Thurs)

Life

• The Key to Making Smarter Long-term Decisions: K@W
• Instead of following your passion, find a career that changes people’s lives: qz
• Flannery O’Connor on Art, Integrity, and the Writer’s Responsibility to His or Her Talent: BP
• Ten Pairs of Opposite Traits That Creative People Exhibit: Farnam
• Leadership Is a Contact Sport: The “Follow-up Factor” in Management Development: Strategu&
• Researchers discovered a psychological trick that will help you stop procrastinating: BI
• Who’s In Charge Of Asia’s Family Businesses? Forbes
• Are Marshall Goldsmith’s Triggers the Only Way to Change?: Strategy&

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A former Apple employee reveals the most memorable piece of advice he ever heard from Steve Jobs; Entrepreneurs need to think like scouts, not tourists: Look for the “software,” not the “hardware.” Pay more attention to scale-up and growth, than to startup. Look beyond what people tell you. Try to identify and meet the hidden heroes – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 8 Jul (Wed)

Life

• A former Apple employee reveals the most memorable piece of advice he ever heard from Steve Jobs: BI
• Entrepreneurs need to think like scouts, not tourists. Look for the “software,” not the “hardware.” Pay more attention to scale-up and growth, than to startup. Look beyond what people tell you. Try to identify and meet the hidden heroes: HBR
• 9 super-successful people share their biggest leadership secrets: BI
• What every employee can teach their boss: Be caring; Believe; Give more; Maintaining a solid team requires honesty, openness, and a willingness to listen. Fortune
• Professional qualifications convey a message but they foster potentially misleading generalisations: FT

Books

• Gomorrah: A Personal Journey into the Violent International Empire of Naples’ Organized Crime System : Amazon
• ZeroZeroZero; From the author of the #1 international bestseller Gomorrah comes an electrifying investigation of the international cocaine trade, as vicious as it is powerful, and its hidden role in the global economy: Amazon

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Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World; Emotions organize — rather than disrupt — rational thinking – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 7 Jul (Tues)

Life

• Simple Rules: How to Thrive in a Complex World: Farnam
• Turning Towards Failure: Farnam
• The scientists behind ‘Inside Out’ explain one big thing the movie gets right that most people get wrong: Emotions organize — rather than disrupt — rational thinking: BI
• Six reasons why innovations require errors: BT
• How accepting and managing errors can raise a firm’s performance: BT
• Organizations are ready for a step toward self-management, wholeness, and a new sense of purpose. Companies are developing a new form of organization — a soulful workplace where talents are nurtured and the deepest aspiration: Strategy&
• Burt’s Bees cofounder Burt Shavitz died at age 80 — here’s his crazy success story: BI
• Strengthening Your Cultural Fortress: Strategy&
• Physicists brought low by thinking big; Science is a messy affair peopled by characters ready to risk everything to seal their reputations: FT
• Does it pay to train people to set up their own business? There are start-up courses all over the world but nobody knows if they work: FT
• How Zappos Converts New Hires to Its Bizarre Office Culture: Bloomberg

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5 books that inspired billionaire CEO Elizabeth Holmes; The trick to overcoming stress could be embracing it – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 6 Jul (Mon)

Life

• The trick to overcoming stress could be embracing it: qz
• 5 books that inspired billionaire CEO Elizabeth Holmes:BI
• The Wisdom of Crowds and The Expert Squeeze; As networks harness the wisdom of crowds, the ability of experts to add value in their predictions is steadily declining. This is the expert squeeze.: Farnam
• Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son: Farnam
• The urge to embrace failure reaches its final frontier; Elon Musk is unlikely to be seduced by the flawed idea that setbacks are to be celebrated: FT
• The Science of ‘Inside Out’; “Inside Out” offers a new approach to sadness. Its central insight: Embrace sadness, let it unfold, engage patiently with emotional struggles. : NYT
• Billion-Dollar Bloodlines: America’s Richest Families 2015: Forbes

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Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes; How did the CIA revolutionize their intelligence gathering with one simple question? How did one organization increase their revenue by $15 million by instituting a short coffee break? Bamboo Innovator Daily: 5 Jul (Sun)

Life

• The Chef That Ate The World: How Gordon Ramsay Earned $60 Million Last Year: Forbes
• 11 brilliant quotes from Evan Spiegel, the controversial 25-year-old Snapchat founder: BI
• The father-son feud that built an empire of food: For decades, a son’s wayward wanderings clashed with his father’s vision for the family business, but when they finally see eye to eye, one of San Francisco’s great culinary institutions is born.: Narrative

Books

• Beyond Measure: The Big Impact of Small Changes; How did the CIA revolutionize their intelligence gathering with one simple question? How did one organization increase their revenue by $15 million by instituting a short coffee break?  Amazon

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