From working as a parking lot attendant to taming lions, here are the summer jobs 19 super successful people had before they were famous; How the microwave was invented by a radar engineer who accidentally cooked a candy bar in his pocket – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Jul (Sat)

Life

• Behold Ontario’s truck stop king: Ken Tanenbaum’s empire sprawls over 1,000 kilometres and never closes: FP
• From working as a parking lot attendant to taming lions, here are the summer jobs 19 super successful people had before they were famous: BI
• How the microwave was invented by a radar engineer who accidentally cooked a candy bar in his pocket: BI
• The ultimate lesson of being an astronaut: Trust your team: qz
• 78 years ago, a journalist studied 500 rich men and boiled down their success into 13 steps: BI
• Karl Lagerfeld: King of couture; The fashion designer on 50 years at Fendi and the power of ‘fantasy fur’: FT
• Lunch with the FT: Pavel Durov, the tech entrepreneur talks about founding Russia’s biggest social networking app VKontakte which revolutionised the Russian internet, falling out with Putin and life as an international nomad: FT
• What Jackie Chan Taught Will Smith And Jay Z: Forbes
• What Did Lincoln Really Think of Jefferson?: NYT

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In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind; An inside look the historic career of ‘unlikely ballerina’ Misty Copeland, who went from ‘pretty much homeless’ to dance superstar – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Jul (Fri)

Life

• An inside look the historic career of ‘unlikely ballerina’ Misty Copeland, who went from ‘pretty much homeless’ to dance superstar: BI
• The skills that make entrepreneurs extraordinary: Forbes
• Contrarian strategy helps build Hiday Hidaka ramen empire: AsiaOne
• 7 skills all successful communicators have mastered: BI
• 11 timeless lessons from a book that changed billionaire CEO Elizabeth Holmes’ life: BI
• Why one Silicon Valley exec says every CEO should be part Moses, and part Galileo: BI
• Judge identifies 12 huge lies about justice in America: BI

Books

• In Search of Sir Thomas Browne: The Life and Afterlife of the Seventeenth Century’s Most Inquiring Mind: Amazon, Economist

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How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk’s Father, Errol Musk; Winifred Gallagher On Living a Focused Life – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 2 Jul (Thurs)

Life

• How To Raise A Billionaire: An Interview With Elon Musk’s Father, Errol Musk: Forbes
• Winifred Gallagher On Living a Focused Life: Farnam
• After studying 500 millionaires, a journalist noticed one characteristic they all had in common: decisiveness: BI
• The Secret To Walt Disney’s Corporate Strategy: FastCo
• Persuasion Depends Mostly on the Audience: HBR
•  Ten tips for writing a book without making your head explode: JasonZweig
• There’s a dark side to startups, and it haunts 30% of the world’s most brilliant people: BI

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Here’s the inspiring fan letter Steven Spielberg sent The Rock; Why Our Relationship With Ourself is the Most Important of The Three Marriages – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1 Jul (Wed)

Life

• Here’s the inspiring fan letter Steven Spielberg sent The Rock: BI
• Why Our Relationship With Ourself is the Most Important of The Three Marriages: Brainpickings
• Breathing Is the Key to Persuasive Public Speaking: HBR
• When CEO Star Power Backfires: Strategy&
• How David Allen increased Drew Carey’s Productivity: Farnam

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How an Airbnb renter’s horror story taught the company’s CEO his greatest leadership lesson: “A consensus decision in a moment of crisis is very often going to be the middle of the road, and they’re usually the worst decisions. Usually in a crisis you have to go left or right” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 30 Jun (Tues)

Life

• How an Airbnb renter’s horror story taught the company’s CEO his greatest leadership lesson; “Usually in a crisis you have to go left or right.”: BI
• Who Will Succeed Warren Buffett as CEO of Berkshire Hathaway?: Bloomberg
• How Martha Stewart lost her $2 billion empire: WaPo
• Where does the money go? Auditor-General to investigate private school funds: TheAge
• Turning Envy into a Positive Force: Insead
• How To Negotiate With Chinese Companies, Part 3: Forbes
• How Katy Perry Became America’s Top Pop Export: The Forbes Cover Story: Forbes
• A mathematical formula reveals the secret to lasting relationships: BI
• Grow big without growing dumb: BT
•  To pick a know-all chief executive is just plain dumb: FT
• A boot camp for billionaires anxious to stay ahead: FT

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The inspiring rags to riches career of Shark Tank judge and internet security guru, Robert Herjavec; Eight powerful ways to mold your children into leaders – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28-29 Jun (Sun-Mon)

Life

• The inspiring rags to riches career of Shark Tank judge and internet security guru, Robert Herjavec: BI
• Eight powerful ways to mold your children into leaders: Quartz
• How Bayes’ Rule Can Make You A Better Thinker: io9
• The Benefits of Mind-Wandering; Robert M. Sapolsky on recent brain research about letting your mind wander-and why it’s good for you: WSJ
• Corporate social responsibility: The halo effect; Do-gooding policies help firms when they get prosecuted: Economist
• The father of “getting things done”: you’re getting me all wrong: FastCo
• The Mouth Is Mightier Than the Pen: NYT
• Jurassic World: 7 reminders for investors: Fortune
• Danfoss among big winners at campdenfb european families in business awards 2015: Campdenfb
• Wu Hai, founder, Crystal Orange hotel group: Rebel with a cause; The entrepreneur met party officials after his online rant against Chinese corruption went viral: FT

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How Fanuc quietly took over the world; Why Scientists and Poets Seek New Frontiers; From Galileo and Kepler to the space probe Philae, curiosity about new worlds has long been part of human nature – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 27 Jun (Sat)

Life

• Why Scientists and Poets Seek New Frontiers; From Galileo and Kepler to the space probe Philae, curiosity about new worlds has long been part of human nature: WSJ
• The education of Airbnb’s Brian Chesky: Fortune
• How to Own Your Story: Vivian Gornick on the Art of Personal Narrative and the Power of Textured Storytelling: Brainpickings
• The Three Essential Properties of the Engineering Mind-Set: Farnam
• Artificial Intelligence Machine Gets Testy With Its Programmer: WSJ
• How Not to Be Misled by Data: Numbers can deceive just as surely as words—so here’s a guide to avoid being led astray.: WSJ
• A Cure for ‘Conflict of Interest’ Mania; A crusading physician says medical progress is hampered by a holier-than-thou ‘moralistic bullying.’: WSJ
• CampdenFB European Families Business Award 2015 Shortlist: Campden
• Towers Watson CEO John Haley, a mathematician at the core, sums up the HR and risk management firm’s story. BT
• Lunch with the FT: Thomas Piketty; France’s ‘rock-star’ economist talks about his fears of eurozone ‘catastrophe’, what spurred his interest in inequality : FT
• Stephen Ross, property billionaire; Having sold soccer to the US, the Miami Dolphins’ owner aims to do the same with F1 motorsport: FT
• The practice legendary tycoon Andrew Carnegie credits for his riches can be used by anyone: BI
• Why Airbnb’s CEO asked for management advice from the former head of the CIA: BI

Books

• Filters Against Folly: How To Survive Despite Economists, Ecologists, and the Merely Eloquent : Amazon, Farnam

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How to break through mediocrity and become exceptional in your field; The day multimillionaire life coach Tony Robbins became a wealthy man, he was down to his last $2 – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 26 Jun (Fri)

Life

• How to break through mediocrity and become exceptional in your field: BI
• The day multimillionaire life coach Tony Robbins became a wealthy man, he was down to his last $20: BI
• Vaccination: The lifesaver; How one man became involved in two of the 20th century’s most important medical breakthroughs: Economist
• KFC founder Colonel Sanders didn’t achieve his remarkable rise to success until his 60s: BI
• 3 things extremely lucky people do differently: BI
• 9 fears everyone should get over before turning 30: BI
• 24 ways to stop making horrible decisions (and start making better ones): BI
• 8 pieces of entrepreneurial wisdom from my father: e27
• The buzzy new term at Microsoft is ‘growth mindset’ — here’s what it means: BI
• Innovating fast or slow? Gates vs Wolf edition: FT
• Bill Gates answers questions on a range of issues: FT
• The silent anxiety of the sharing economy; Fear of failure and existential panic stalk the self-employed: FT
• Want to write a piece for the Financial Times op-ed page?: FT
• Living With Cancer: Being Mortal: NYT
• The Rise of ‘Speed-Listening’: Books can be places for intellectual wandering. They can also be mined of precious information with ruthless efficiency.: Atlantic

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Sam Adams founder explains how 2 books helped him build a billion-dollar company – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 25 Jun (Thurs)

Life

• Sam Adams founder explains how 2 books helped him build a billion-dollar company: BI
• One trick introverts use to become influential public leaders; “If you have that conviction, it’s going to shine through.”: BI
• Better Lucky than Smart: Strategy&
• Interpublic CEO Says Creativity Is Still Advertising’s ‘Secret Sauce,’ Despite Endless Digital Talk at Cannes: WSJ
• Whatever Happened to Knowledge Management?: WSJ
• Mind-reading program translates thoughts into text: BI
• Startup CEOs need creativity more than managerial ability: Nikkei

Books

• Animal Madness: How Anxious Dogs, Compulsive Parrots, and Elephants in Recovery Help Us Understand Ourselves: Amazon

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Train The Brave: 7 Steps To Building Your Courage Muscles; If you want to understand people and be understood in life, speak from your heart – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 24 Jun (Wed)

Life

• Train The Brave: 7 Steps To Building Your Courage Muscles: Forbes
• If you want to understand people and be understood in life, speak from your heart: Quartz
• Jack Ma a lover of magic, philosophy and salt, says assistant: WCT
• 24 people who became highly successful after age 40: BI
• What 11 extremely successful people were doing as teenagers: Bill Gates was falling in love with computers.: BI
• Here’s everything that Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’ gets right and wrong about human psychology: BI
• Mother Nature is still the greatest innovator; Owl feathers, the secret to quiet airplanes and even quieter fans.  WaPo
• Big question: Why do I yawn when I’m nervous or stressed?: Wired
• Why this tech CEO and his employees work just 32 hours each week; Treehouse, an online learning platform that offers skill-based courses for a small price, has over 100,000 enrolled users nearly 100% employee retention, and brought in $10m sales: BI
• The 6 Most Common Innovation Mistakes Companies Make: HBR
• Surviving flops: lessons for start-ups from a theatrical empire; Ambassador Theatre Group’s Rosemary Squire on the art of balancing creativity and pragmatism: FT
• The mystery of the universe’s lucky numbers: TheAge
• Why some people can get away with so little sleep: Quartz

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Billionaire Sam Adams founder explains why ‘getting rich is life’s biggest booby trap’ – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 23 Jun (Tues)

Life

• Billionaire Sam Adams founder explains why ‘getting rich is life’s biggest booby trap’: BI
• Restless spirit paid off for Gain City founder: AsiaOne
• This tech CEO doesn’t just want to interview you – he also wants to meet your family; When you join a startup, everybody in your family has to be willing to “see past the ambiguity” that’s inherent to the process: BI
• The Benefits of Fidgeting for Students With ADHD; The children perform better on cognitive tasks when allowed to move freely: WSJ
• 7 psychological steps to getting people to trust you: BI
• Pixar’s imaginative ‘Inside Out’ was so powerful that it changed the way I understand my own emotions: BI
• Well-managed factories should have nothing to hide; Opening up encourages producers to clean up and improve the way they work: FT
• Education startups find profit in re-examining the way we teach children: FP
• Brand Britain must broaden its horizons; The world loves to buy British, so let’s focus on our manufacturing; Dyson and Cath Kidston are among them. All are successfully exporting a British definition of quality, reliability and taste. Telegraph
• Why Culture Matters For Startups – Q&A With Culture Influencer Cosmin Gheorghe: Forbes
• Family Ties Help When Firms Go Bust: Insead
• Tricks to prolong the family trade’s success: BT

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“Life has its ups and downs but you can only look forward,” says Frank Lowy, Australia’s fast-footed tycoon; The head of Westfield on boldness, demergers and the World Cup – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 Jun (Mon)

Life

• Frank Lowy: Australia’s fast-footed tycoon; The head of Westfield on boldness, demergers and the World Cup: FT
• The founder of an award-winning tequila brand shares the 2 most powerful lessons his father ever taught him: BI
• Five Elements of Effective Thinking: Farnam
•  ‘Inside Out’ Is Something Truly Special, Even For Pixar: Forbes
• 14 successful people share the best advice they ever got from their dads: BI
• The ridiculous myth that ego can ever be left at the door: FT

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How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer: An Illustrated Adventure in Footnotes and Friendship – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 Jun (Sun)

Life

• How Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage Invented the World’s First Computer: An Illustrated Adventure in Footnotes and Friendship: Brainpickings
• Adam Smith’s Underappreciated Wisdom on Benevolence, Happiness, and Kindness; “Man naturally desires, not only to be loved, but to be lovely; or to be that thing which is the natural and proper object of love.”: Brainpickings
• How to Be Extraordinary: William James on the Psychology of the Second Wind and How to Release Our Untapped Human Potential: Brainpickings
• Blaise Pascal on the Intuitive vs. the Logical Mind and How We Come to Know Truth: Brainpickings
• Howard Marks: The ‘Uncomfortably Idiosyncratic’ Billionaire; The Zen capitalist has made a fortune fishing in less-fished waters: Observer

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The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneur; This is the personality combo that Steve Jobs and Richard Branson shared: They’re a special breed of innovator: they’re misfit entrepreneurs – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 Jun (Sat)

Life

• This is the personality combo that Steve Jobs and Richard Branson shared: They’re a special breed of innovator: they’re misfit entrepreneurs. BI
• Lessons From Dave Goldberg: An Open Letter To Aspiring CEOs And Young Entrepreneurs: Techcrunch
• Toddlers Have Sense of Justice, Puppet Study Shows; Children as young as age 3 will intervene on behalf of a victim, reacting as if victimized themselves, scientists have found. NYT
• Neil Gaiman on How Stories Last: BP
• Oliver Sacks on Storytelling, the Curious Psychology of Writing, and What His Friendship with the Poet Thom Gunn Taught Him About Creativity and Originality: BP
•  A 24-year-old entrepreneur spent 4 days with Richard Branson — here’s what she learned from him: BI
• Comcast Founder Ralph Roberts Dies at 95; Cable-TV pioneer and tenacious deal maker built family business into a media empire. Ralph Roberts, Comcast founder, 1920-2015: WSJ, FT, NYT
• Use Everyday Life to Teach Kids About Money: WSJ
• Lessons on family business succession from Rupert Murdoch: Campden
• A father’s dark legacy: The fate of Bernie Madoff’s sons should be a lesson for all dads on the importance of integrity: Star
• Disney has been hiding a secret message in its movies for years: BI
• The brilliantly revealing interview question one tech CEO asks every job candidate: “If you worked in a restaurant, what role would you want?”: BI
• Lunch with the FT: Takashi Murakami:  ‘Japan’s Andy Warhol’ has blurred the lines between art and commerce. Over two burgers in Tokyo, he talks about fantasy beating reality and his quest to be understood: FT
• Believe It Or Not, Most Published Research Findings Are Probably False: Bigthink
• How Richard Baker engineered Hudson’s Bay Co.’s stunning turnaround with a ‘leap of faith’ in real estate: FP
• Dishonesty in business most likely to occur as window of opportunity closes: SCMP
• 13 Practical Ideas That Have Helped Me Make Better Decisions: Farnam
• Why it’s easier to describe “what makes us happy” than answer the question “what is happiness?”: Farnam

Books

• The Misfit Economy: Lessons in Creativity from Pirates, Hackers, Gangsters and Other Informal Entrepreneurs: Amazon
• How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of Intangibles in Business : Amazon

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The most ridiculous ideas that eventually became successful startups; How to move through the four stages of life: Stage One: The mimicry; Stage Two: Self-discovery; Stage Three: Committment; Stage Four: Legacy; How a 32-year-old who never expected to make any money now earns up to $75,000 a month – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Jun (Fri)

Life

• The most ridiculous ideas that eventually became successful startups: e27
• How to move through the four stages of life: Stage One: The mimicry; Stage Two: Self-discovery; Stage Three: Committment; Stage Four: Legacy: Quartz
• How a 32-year-old who never expected to make any money now earns up to $75,000 a month: BI
• Avoid a culture of clock-watchers: 5 ways to keep your staff motivated: BRW
• Vote: Which woman should be shown on the new $10 bill?: Fortune
• 11 European billionaires who never went to university: BI
• One of comedy’s most powerful people was brutally rejected by his childhood hero – and it changed his career: BI
• Girl Who Asked Obama to Put Women on Bills ‘Really Excited’ About a Woman on the $10: Time
• Read a 9-Year-Old’s Letter to Obama About Putting a Woman on U.S. Currency – and His Response: Time
• ‘Inside Out’ Review: Pixar’s Brilliant Life of the Mind; Pixar racks up another masterpiece with a psycho-comical take on the feelings that swirl inside a young heroine’s head: WSJ
• 5 surprising lessons a psychologist learned from interviewing killers for 20 years: BI
• How the lessons of Waterloo still echo through today’s economy; Free trade, balanced budgets and insider trading appear high on the agenda in both 1815 and 2015: telegraph

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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery Paperback; How toy trains inspired Charles Correa to become India’s greatest contemporary architect; How Ford CEO Alan Mullaly turned a broken company into the industry’s comeback kid; A crucial part of values-based leadership, however, is becoming a “best citizen.” This recognizes the responsibility to make a difference in the world – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 Jun (Thurs)

Life

•  How toy trains inspired Charles Correa to become India’s greatest contemporary architect: Quartz
• How Ford CEO Alan Mullaly turned a broken company into the industry’s comeback kid;  A crucial part of values-based leadership, however, is becoming a “best citizen.” This recognizes the responsibility to make a difference in the world. Quartz
• The real secret to a more productive brain: Find the Motivation. Invest in the tools. Learn with others. BRW
• 3 powerful lessons from a classic book that Tony Robbins always recommends: BI
• Food Network star Ina Garten on the power of saying ‘no’: BI
• Winston Churchill famously said, “Democracy is the worst form of government, except all the others that have been tried.” Until recently, the same could be said for the factory model of education: Techcrunch
• On the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, remember the dark side of history: Quartz
• How to word an invoice so it gets paid on time, and other hacks from ‘nudge’ economics: BRW
• The Last Mover Advantage: techcrunch
• Managers in the Digital Age Need to Stay Human: HBR
• Conquering Digital Distraction: HBR
• Solving Complex Social Problems Through Collaboration: HBR
• Remembering the legendary Kirk Kerkorian: ‘He paved the way for the modern activist’: FP
• Should Managers Read Academic Articles?: Forbes
• Mind the 100-Year Gap in Education; It will take another 100 years for developing countries to reach the levels of developed nations unless drastic measures are taken: Bloomberg
• The Myth of Perfect Information: SamMcNerney
• How Maria Sharapova Became the World’s Wealthiest Female Athlete: Bloomberg

Books

• The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery: Amazon
• The Four Things That Matter Most – 10th Anniversary Edition: A Book About Living: Amazon
• As a Man Thinketh: Amazon
• Your summer reading list: 70+ book picks from TED speakers and attendees: TED

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13 brilliant ideas that turned these people into self-made billionaires; Nine Career Lessons I Learned From Comic Books: Don’t stop trying until the job is done. Focus on the needs of others more than your own needs – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Jun (Wed)

Life

• 13 brilliant ideas that turned these people into self-made billionaires: BI
• Nine Career Lessons I Learned From Comic Books: Forbes
• The Wit And Wisdom Of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Forbes
• From obscurity to an unlikely comeback: how one leader turned a failing business around: FastCo
• Kirk Kerkorian, investor, 1917-2015; Elusive billionaire who bought and sold his way to wealth via the airline, hotel, film and car businesses: FT
• How science itself is coming under scrutiny: TheAge
•  Are Companies Any Good at Picking Stars? Despite new assessment tools, the hunt for high-potential employees is more art than science: WSJ
• ‘Makers’ are worth £18bn to the UK economy; Britain’s DIY disruptors, also known as makers, are revolutionising technology in the UK – boosting GDP and creating jobs while they’re at it: Telegraph
• Three Essential Elements Of A Winning Mindset: Forbes
• How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting; Ditching annual performance reviews has paid unexpected dividends. Fortune
• A tech CEO explains the deceptively simple concept all leaders must understand: BI

Books

• We Need To Talk: Your Guide to Challenging Business Conversations : Amazon

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Steve Jobs’ lessons from 1980 that are pure gold for entrepreneurs of today; Food Network star Ina Garten shares the career advice she’d give her younger self – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 Jun (Tues)

Life

• Steve Jobs’ lessons from 1980 that are pure gold for entrepreneurs of today: e27, Youtube
• How to Give the Most Motivating Pep Talk; Listen to a friend’s needs, emphasize resilience and strength. Don’t minimize concerns.; ‘I want to be here for you. What can I do?’; stay away from cliches like ‘Time heals’: WSJ
• Food Network star Ina Garten shares the career advice she’d give her younger self: BI
• 70% VCs reduce the potential of a startup: Silicon Valley VC Vinod Khosla: e27
• Focus On the Customers You Want, Not the Ones You Have: HBR
• Scientists just created the coldest substance on Earth, and it has some really weird properties: BI
• This personality trait predicts your tendency to lie and cheat: BI
• 6 reasons why family-owned businesses are smoking the competition: BI
• This one big problem is why we can’t control computers with our brains yet: BI
• How To Negotiate With Chinese Companies: Forbes
• Getting organizational redesign right; Companies will better integrate their people, processes, and structures by following nine golden rules. Mckinsey
• What Mountain Climbing Can Teach You About Business: NYT

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YCombinator’s Sam Altman reflects on long days and short decades and the 36 life lessons learnt: Tell your parents you love them more often, Be grateful and keep problems in perspective – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 15 Jun (Mon)

Life

• What Happens When You Don’t Care: JamesAltucher
• Why not giving a damn won’t stand in your way of success; Caring about our work has become a weird status symbol. But it can make us mad and unproductive: FT
• YCombinator’s Sam Altman: 36 Life Lessons I Learned Before the Age of 30; The President of Y Combinator reflects on long days and short decades: Observer
• Read these beautiful Kiswahili proverbs: “Haba na haba, hujaza kibaba.” (Little by little, the container gets filled. While we may overlook small changes, they are the ones which, put together over time, eventually make a difference): Quartz
• How a 10-month-old startup’s founders convinced investors to give them millions of dollars to buy a 93-year-old German razor factory: BI
• Shift to ‘Purpose Economy’: Forbes
• Learning to Love Volatility: Farnam
• Confirmation Bias: How Intelligent People Develop Totally Incorrect Beliefs: Spring
• Do ants have a better traffic algorithm than human engineers or drivers? The number of ants could reach hundreds of thousands, but traffic on the trunk trail – unlike a car-clogged highway – keep moving: WaPo
• How Tony Blair built a business empire in China: Telegraph
• What I learned by reading Businessweek’s incredible 38,000-word article on code: BI
• Tough Choices for Succession in the Family Business: NYT
• How HR ‘Best Practices’ Kill Innovation: Forbes
• Alan Bond, 1938-2015: Bond’s bubble; A fallen hero who personified a wild decade in Australian business: Economist

Books

• Pebbles of Perception: How a Few Good Choices make All the Difference: Amazon

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Jessica Alba On Her Billion-Dollar Success: ‘People Just Saw Me As A Girl In A Bikini’; The Power of Full Engagement — Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 14 Jun (Sun)

Life

• Jessica Alba On Her Billion-Dollar Success: ‘People Just Saw Me As A Girl In A Bikini’: Forbes
• The Power of Full Engagement — Managing Energy, Not Time, is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal: Farnam
• Lessons about letting go: Star
• Aristotle on Time: Farnam
• What Trees Teach Us About Human Nature, Relationships, and the Secret to Lasting Love: Wisdom from a 17th-Century Gardener: BP
• Jack Dorsey’s return to Twitter Inc: What the co-founder can learn from Steve Jobs, Howard Schultz and Michael Bregman: FP
• Business Dynasties Try to Pass the Torch Without Dropping It: NYT
• Hey Silicon Valley, joiners are just as important as founders: WaPo

Books

• Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High: Amazon

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You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head; How a decade of rejection rocketed billionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakely to mega success – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 13 Jun (Sat)

Life

• You Innovate with Your Heart, Not Your Head: HBR
• How a decade of rejection rocketed billionaire Spanx founder Sara Blakely to mega success: BI
• Seven Habits Of Fearless People: Forbes
• 25 Life Lessons From 100-Year-Old David Rockefeller, The World’s Oldest Billionaire: Forbes
• Invent your own TAFE course, and other survival hacks from Wollongong toolbelt manufacturer Buckaroo: BRW
• Be an ethical firm or lose your best people, EY survey finds: SCMP
• Lunch with the FT: Richard Desmond; the media mogul calls the prime minister ‘rude’, swears vigorously and talks about what to do with a billion pounds in cash: FT
• Genes Are Selfish; People Are Not: We are unique among animals in our consciousness, of our own selves and of our social groups.: WSJ
• Schadenfreude Is in the Zeitgeist, but Is There an Opposite Term? Word for taking pain in another’s pleasure is ‘gluckschmerz,’ or is it?: WSJ

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A brilliant MIT scientist shares the sad personal story that drives his groundbreaking research – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 12 Jun (Fri)

Life

• A brilliant MIT scientist shares the sad personal story that drives his groundbreaking research: BI
• A Harvard cognitive scientist taught me the secret underlying all good writing: BI
• What investors can learn from Alex Bird’s 500 winning bets at the races; Professional gambler Alex Bird made a fortune betting on photo finishes. Terry Smith says his system offers a lesson to investors: Telegraph
• Let Rich and Poor Learn Together: NYT
• Why doing nothing for a year was the best career decision Food Network star Ina Garten ever made: BI
• How one woman turned less than $1,000 of savings into a business that earns over $200,000 a year: BI
• Why we have to give our business partners the power to destroy us: BI, YouTube
• 9 companies that make money from your laziness: BI
• Why the CEO of the world’s biggest financial services company didn’t fire anybody during the financial crisis: BI
• CEO succession starts with developing your leaders: McKinsey
• Incumbents as attackers: Brand-driven innovation: Big companies are finding growth in new markets by harnessing an underused asset—their brands. McKinsey
• Starbucks Korea chief highlights horizontal culture in management: KH
• Nepal’s billionaire ‘noodle king’ turns focus to rebuilding homeland: Nikkei
• Happy Birthday, Mr. Rockefeller: The World’s Oldest Billionaire Turns 100: Forbes
• Everything you need to know about coding in one infographic: BI
• Elon Musk doesn’t want to get into genetic engineering because he doesn’t know how to avoid ‘the Hitler problem’: BI
• Why you come up with your best ideas when you’re mentally exhausted: BI
• The Editorial Macro and Micro: StevenPressfield

Books

• How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines: Amazon
• Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action: Amazon
• The Seekers: The Story of Man’s Continuing Quest to Understand His World: Amazon
• The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination: Amazon
• The Discoverers: A History of Man’s Search to Know His World and Himself: Amazon
• 10 novels that will make you smarter about business: BI
• The White Tiger: A Novel : Amazon
•  Things Fall Apart: Amazon

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Toru Iwatani: Pac-Man and the real life of games design; 10 skills that are hard to learn but pay off forever; Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 11 Jun (Thurs)

Life

• 10 skills that are hard to learn but pay off forever: BI
• Toru Iwatani: Pac-Man and the real life of games design; The inventor of the 35-year-old glutton chews over smartphones, managing talent and game design: FT
• Ina Garten On How To Run A Business And Do What You Love: Forbes
• What Good Is History? Everyone has their own version. Here’s the best way to navigate it. fool
• The hidden economic rules behind Tinder, marriage, kidneys, and college admissions: Quartz
• Buddhism, bombs and blouses: Japan’s versatile ‘washi’ paper: Dailymail
• Postmortems for Startup Failures: Bloomberg
• Heidrick & Struggles on the changing nature of leadership: McKinsey
•  Bye, Bye, American History: Professors and historians urged opposition to the College Board’s new curriculum for teaching AP U.S. History.: WSJ
• With only a little cash, young Mexican shakes up politics: ChinaPost
• Too much ‘ganbaru’ could push anyone over the edge: JT
• A Better Way to Map Brand Strategy: HBR
• Children need to build strong reading habit: KT
• Why do smart executives make bad decisions?: FP
• The secret to success in the age of information overload: FP
• Hall of fame: Six CEOs who’ve scripted great growth stories: Forbes
• Here’s why it’s so weird that we haven’t found aliens yet: BI
• 15-year-old makes the epic discovery of a new planet that’s 1,000 light years from Earth: BI
• How to become a master networker, even if you’re an introvert: BI
• The bad habit that makes leaders less effective: BI

Books

• Phishing for Phools: The Economics of Manipulation and Deception: Amazon
• Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design : Amazon
• The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Amazon

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The Most Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves; Warren Buffett’s Quotes On Arbitrage; Bubbles; Business And More – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 9-10 Jun (Tues-Wed)

Life

• The Most Important Questions Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves: Insead
• Warren Buffett’s Quotes On Arbitrage; Bubbles; Business And More: VW
• Much to learn from Yoda, public speakers still have; Hyperbaton is not a new form of lightsabre, it is a cunning disturbance in the order of words: FT
• From kopi boy to Coffee Shop King of Singapore: AsiaOne
• The use and abuse of scenarios: Although it is surprisingly hard to create good ones, they help you ask the right questions and prepare for the unexpected. That is hugely valuable. McKinsey
• How this Chinese actress Zhao Wei parlayed fame into a billion dollar fortune: EJ
• The Two Key Benefits Of Thought Leadership Done Well: Forbes
• Why Manufacturing Is Vital To Engineering Education: Forbes
• Why bigger is not always better in business: JP
• The 4 lessons I learned from energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens over lunch: BI
• Here’s a simple trick to perform better in stressful situations: BI
• Free to be more productive: family business Grainger & Worrall: FT
• Want to Create a Blue Ocean? Avoid These Six Red Ocean Traps: Insead
•  The 1 Percent Innovation Solution: Strategy&
• Alan Bond funded Australia’s victory in the 1983 America’s Cup, but several of his other business ventures led to convictions of misconduct and the largest corporate fraud in Australian history. NYT

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Charlie Munger’s Quotes On Academia, Accounting And More – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 8 Jun (Mon)

Life

• Charlie Munger’s Quotes On Academia, Accounting And More: VW
• How To Conquer Fear, Backed By Research: Barker
• From taxi driver to billionaire city builder behind Brisbane’s Greater Springfield, the only fully master planned city to be built in Australia other than Canberra. AsiaOne
• David Smorgon warns of Smorgon-like crisis for family business: BRW
• The books that shaped the rise and fall of the British empire: Conversation
• How five great corporate teams in the Fortune 500 push the envelope. Fortune

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The humble life of Zara owner Amancio Ortega is to be admired; Despite being one of the world’s richest men, the tycoon behind Zara still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 7 Jun (Sun)

Life

• The humble life of Zara owner Amancio Ortega is to be admired; Despite being one of the world’s richest men, the tycoon behind Zara still eats lunch with his employees in the company cafeteria: Telegraph
• How this 28-year-old turned a website he built when he was 12 into a media empire: BI
• Red Hat CEO: How I traded top-down mandates for ‘open’ decision-making: Fortune
• This Canadian company took a wood product once considered junk and turned it into a $2.3-billion business: FP
• Chinese Firm Wins Warren Buffett Charity Auction With $2.3 Million Bid: WSJ
• Emerson on Small Mercies, the True Measure of Wisdom, and How to Live with Maximum Aliveness: BP
• The Science of Scarcity: A behavioral economist’s fresh perspectives on poverty: Harvard

Books

• Selling the Invisible: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing: Amazon

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The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why; Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 6 Jun (Sat)

Life

• 5 Lessons from a Dog on Overcoming Life’s Hardest Challenges: TinyBuddha
• Warren Buffett On How Business And Philanthropy Are Alike — And How They Are Completely Different: Forbes
• Merck, the modest family: Chairman shares secrets of successful family management over more than 300 years: KH
• Solutions for infighting among Asian business families: SCMP
• Inside the successes and failures of a growing doggy empire; The mastermind behind the popular BarkBox subscription care package for dogs shares his hard-earned startup lessons. FastCo
• Maree Machin lost a $2000 camera, but gained a business idea: BRW
• Wal-Mart founder: ‘Everything I’ve done I’ve copied from someone else’: BI
• Alan Bond: a deal-making dynamo gone wrong: TheAge
• Shanghai master’s student controls cockroaches with ‘brain link’: WCT
• When political pollsters get it wrong: The £2bn market research industry failed to predict the election result. Does the answer lie in asking fewer questions?: FT
• This Japanese company taught a robot to wield a katana like a master swordsman: YouTube, BI
• Daphne Koller on the Future of Online Education: The Coursera co-founder on the advantages of learning online—and why traditional universities aren’t going to disappear: WSJ

Books

• Gumption: Relighting the Torch of Freedom with America’s Gutsiest Troublemakers: Amazon
• The Unthinkable: Who Survives When Disaster Strikes – and Why : Amazon

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Restoring humanity to leadership: There is no value in asking yourself “Am I a leader?” Instead, ask “Who am I leading? And where am I going?” – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 5 Jun (Fri)

Life

• Restoring humanity to leadership; There is no value in asking yourself “Am I a leader?” Instead, ask “Who am I leading? And where am I going?”: Forbes
• Michael Lombardi on Decision Making, The Four Elements of Leadership, The Difference Between Good and Bad Coaches: Farnam
• The Art of Science Communication: William Zinsser on How to Write Well About Science; How to master the inverse pyramid of transmuting information into wisdom.: BP
• Do Something Syndrome: Farnam
• It’s OK to Move Down (Yes, Down) the Value Chain: HBR
• The Self-Tuning Enterprise; How Alibaba uses algorithmic thinking to constantly reinvent itself: HBR
• Hungarian leaders often speak with pride of the innovations the country has given the world: the ballpoint pen, the espresso machine and the Rubik’s Cube.: FT
• Alan Bond dead: Bond Corp’s demise left bad taste in the West; Alan Bond, America’s Cup Hero and Corporate Villain, Dies at 77: TheAge, WSJ

Books

• The 1% Windfall: How Successful Companies Use Price to Profit and Grow : Amazon
• On Writing Well, 30th Anniversary Edition: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction: Amazon

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Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me; Cultivating a culture of innovation begins with children – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 4 Jun (Thurs)

Life

• Bill Gates, College Dropout: Don’t Be Like Me: NYT
• Cultivating a culture of innovation begins with children: TODAY
• Eric Schmidt: Here’s why most companies fail, and why Google won’t: BI
• Idealab’s Bill Gross reveals the single biggest reason why startups succeed: e27
• College Dropouts Thrive in Tech: Quitting school to start a company used to be seen as risky; now it’s a badge of honor: WSJ
• Creating an ethical culture while growing your business: BRW
• Researchers Put Hierarchies Through the Himalayan Test; Do hierarchical countries like China succeed more than countries that put little value on ranking? : WSJ
• Here’s how the ‘self-management’ system that Zappos is using actually works: BI
• Google’s cofounder wrote an essay about how the world has changed since the company started: BI
• The secret power of introverts: Fortune
• Thomson Reuters on making information useful: McKinsey
• How To Develop Superior Thought Leadership Content Than The Competition: Forbes

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7 business leaders share how they solved the biggest moral dilemmas of their careers: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 3 Jun (Wed)

Life

• 7 business leaders share how they solved the biggest moral dilemmas of their careers: FastCo
• The misplaced hero worship of start-up founders; Entrepreneurs who really transform the economy are found in all sizes of business: FT
• The Backyard Effect: Finding The Secret Sauce For Growing An Entrepreneurial Ecosystem: Techcrunch
• Ortega Overtakes Buffett to Become World’s Second-Richest Person: Bloomberg
• The inside story of how the Clintons built a $2 billion global empire: WaPo
• Singapore’s Yeo Hiap Seng descendants in tussle over will: AsiaOne
•  Your Strategy Needs a Strategy: BCG
• The New CEO’s Guide to Transformation: Turning Ambition into Sustainable Results: BCG
• Escaping the Doghouse: Winning in Commoditized Markets: BCG
• Be a Leader Who Can Admit Mistakes: HBR
• Innovation Isn’t the Answer to All Your Problems: HBR

Books

• Good Leaders Ask Great Questions: Your Foundation for Successful Leadership : Amazon

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