The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong; 7 simple ways to find work you’re really passionate about: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 2 Jun (Tues)

Life

• 7 simple ways to find work you’re really passionate about: BI
• Why A Values Fit Matters More Than A Culture Fit: Techcrunch
• What the horse whisperer taught the CEO about leadership: BRW
• How Korea’s crime scene sleuths do their jobs: JA
• Don’t ‘manage’ change, dance with it: BRW
• Lessons from King Sejong: JA

Books

• The Resilience Dividend: Being Strong in a World Where Things Go Wrong : Amazon

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To know bamboo is to know Asia; How Should We Learn? We need to inculcate the skills to navigate the world, handle ambiguity and ignorance, and become more purpose-driven learner: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1 Jun (Mon)

Life

• To know bamboo is to know Asia — and a whole lot of Japanese: JT
• How Should We Learn? We need to inculcate the skills to navigate that world, handle ambiguity and ignorance, and become more purpose-driven learners: Techcrunch
• American geniuses Steve Wozniak, Biz Stone and Bill Nye on nurturing innovation in business: FastCo
• Everything you need to know about The Fountainhead, a book that inspires Uber’s billionaire CEO; The Fountainhead’s hero is a principled rebel who refuses to back down from his beliefs, even if it means violating society’s rules and norms. BI
• Medicine’s Hidden Roots in an Ancient Manuscript: NYT
• Billionaires Behind Pom Wonderful, Fiji Water Rename Company; Lynda Resnick is the billionaire master marketer behind some of America’s favorite fruit and nut products.  Forbes
• Richard Thaler on misbehavior, tipping, and economists as failed mathematicians: Quartz
• How billionaire Anthony Pratt made his own name in America: BRW
• Used car salesman on the Rich 200: the death-defying story of Tony Denny and his $320m fortune: BRW
• To be more human is a corporate goal that does not compute; The real issue is the moral distance between companies and their customers: FT
• Scientists Who Cheat: NYT
• Beyond Publish or Perish, Academic Papers Look to Make a Splash: NYT
•  Instead of Playing Golf, the World’s Elderly Are Staging Heists and Robbing Banks; Loneliness and poverty are two factors blamed for increased criminal activity among senior citizens: Bloomberg

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Natalie Portman reveals her ‘dark moments’ in college during powerful Harvard commencement speech; The Best Advice Commencement Speakers Gave the Class of 2015: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 31 May (Sun)

Life

• Natalie Portman reveals her ‘dark moments’ in college during powerful Harvard commencement speech: BI
• The Best Advice Commencement Speakers Gave the Class of 2015; Graduation speeches. They are what they are. But remarks by the late and current CEOs of Apple offer advice applicable far beyond the office. Bloomberg
• The Founder And The Inferiority Complex: Techcrunch

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Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reveals his one philosophy on work and life; Jealous mountain goddesses can’t scare this gutsy groundbreaker who found success as an engineer outside her home country: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 30 May (Sat)

Life

• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak reveals his one philosophy on work and life: BI
• Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak explains the biggest difference between Steve Jobs and Bill Gates: BI
• She Had to Leave Japan to Find Success as an Engineer; Jealous mountain goddesses can’t scare this gutsy groundbreaker: Bloomberg
• How to Find Your Place in the World After Graduation: NYT
• How Zippo’s Founding Family Kept The Flame Alive: Forbes
• Why one of Silicon Valley’s top investors says ‘don’t follow your passion’: BI
• The question that Twitter’s CEO asks at every product meeting; “What’s a bolder choice we could be making?” he said. “What if you added this constraint to what you’re doing that forced you to be more creative or bold?”: BI
• Lunch with the FT: Federico Marchetti; Yoox founder talks about being an outsider — and the world’s shopping habits: FT
• Apple’s Jony Ive is tired of having to design everything: FT
• How Elon Musk is educating his children: Quartz
• Napoleon’s life rebuilt with Legos for Waterloo anniversary: JT
• Scientists Curbing the Ethical Use of Science: NYT
• Securing the future of family business: Star
• The emotional side of family businesses: BT
• Magna Carta: Eight Centuries of Liberty; June marks the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, the ‘Great Charter’ that established the rule of law for the English-speaking world. Its revolutionary impact still resounds today: WSJ

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David Brooks’s Search for Meaning; From poverty to a $3 billion fortune – the incredible rags-to-riches story of Oprah Winfrey: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 29 May (Fri)

Life

• David Brooks’s Search for Meaning: NewYorker
• From poverty to a $3 billion fortune – the incredible rags-to-riches story of Oprah Winfrey: BI
• A former CIA director’s advice on how to make hard decisions: FastCo
• A clear corporate purpose is key to outperforming rivals: BT
• Inventors, Entrepreneurs And The Space In Between: Techcrunch
• Why are some companies so successful?: e27
• A palette of plans: Choosing a strategy is a lot more complex for companies than it used to be: Economist

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Bill Gates: A Funny, Brutally Honest Memoir in Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened by Allie Brosh: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 May (Thurs)

Life

• Bill Gates: A Funny, Brutally Honest Memoir in Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things that Happened , by Allie Brosh, GatesNotes
• This Billionaire Mom Runs America’s Biggest Woman-Owned Business; under Thai Lee’s management SHI International has grown from a failing software reseller into one of the biggest and best-regarded IT proviider in the world with $6bn in sales: Forbes
• How Jessica Alba Built A $1 Billion Company, And $200 Million Fortune, Selling Parents Peace Of Mind: Forbes
• How Successful People Handle Stress: Forbes
• Life in the age of anxiety: NYT
• John Nash’s Legacy Lives on in Business Strategy: K@W
• Interview with “king of cashmere” Brunello Cucinelli: PI
• Smarter Every Year? Mystery of the Rising IQs: WSJ
• Remembering John Nash: Finding equations to explain the world: Economist
• Why It’s So Important For A Stock Operator To ‘Know Thyself’: Felder
•  ‘Change the world through education’: KT
• Entrepreneurs Raising the Next Generation of Chief Executives: NYT
• Why Special Ops Stopped Relying So Much on Top-Down Leadership; Leaders that can persuade others to join their network by articulating a common purpose and rallying others around it will quickly outmaneuver those that rely on top-down: HBR
• An Organization-Wide Approach to Good Decision Making: HBR

Books

• Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened: Amazon
• Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others: Amazon

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Eccentricity is the vital ingredient for a city’s success; A Biologist-Turned-Buddhist and His Philosopher Father on the Nature of the Self and the True Measure of Personal Strength: Bamboo Innovator Daily: 27 May (Wed)

Life

• A Biologist-Turned-Buddhist and His Philosopher Father on the Nature of the Self and the True Measure of Personal Strength: BrainPickings
• Eccentricity is the vital ingredient for a city’s success: FT
• Acquiring proven entrepreneurs is a smart way to innovate; LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman on the art of importing and keeping business builders: FT
• What’s Hot in the Art World? Algorithms; Admirers hold on to computerized formulas; paying $2,500 for a ‘qrpff’ necktie: WSJ

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The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All; How to Recognize a Budding Entrepreneur; Why Some Entrepreneurs Feel Fulfilled—but Others Don’t; How the most creative people in business generate new ideas – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 26 May (Tues)

Life

• How to Recognize a Budding Entrepreneur; New research identifies the four qualities that founders-to-be have in common: WSJ
• How the most creative people in business generate new ideas: FastCo
• Why Some Entrepreneurs Feel Fulfilled—but Others Don’t; Money is only part of the equation. New research offers surprising insights into the complex path to satisfaction: WSJ
• A serial entrepreneur’s hard-earned lesson in taking risks: FastCo
• John Nash: A life of brilliance, madness, and reawakening: Quartz
• Family Ties Help When Firms Go Bust: Insead
• Reconsidering the Charismatic CEO: Strategy&
• How Emerging Markets Can Finally Arrive; Without capable domestic firms, emerging markets will inevitably get stuck somewhere along the way. Building world-class domestic firms is the overlooked key to economic development. Strategy&

Books

• The Carpenter: A Story About the Greatest Success Strategies of All: Amazon
• The Seed: Finding Purpose and Happiness in Life and Work: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 25 May (Mon) – 4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time

Life

• 4 Rituals To Keep You Happy All The Time: Barker
• “The power of a mentor is to see the full abundance that resides within our children and to build a bridge for our children to see it in themselves”; Yogi Berra’s Best ‘Yogi-ism’ Was a Profound Act of Kindness: WSJ
• Elon Musk on How to Tell if People Are Lying: Farnam
• The Jingle Geniuses Making Millions Writing Music For Ads, Reality TV; The Jingle Punks make millions writing music for commercials, reality TV, and “literally anything” that needs a tune: Bloomberg
• From the archives: Nash’s Nobel prize; The Economist’s coverage on the award of the Nobel prize for economics to John Nash in 1994: Economist
• Lucy Kellaway: I would rather shine shoes than be a banker: FT
• The New Dictators Rule by Velvet Fist; Today’s dictators use propaganda, censorship and relatively little violence: NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 24 May (Sun) – Contributor, Competitor, Craftsman: A Commentary on Motivation and Vocation; Fairfax Financial Ltd chief Prem Watsa tells his ‘Horatio Alger’ story

Life

• Contributor, Competitor, Craftsman: A Commentary on Motivation and Vocation: Convenantcap
• What to Learn in College to Stay One Step Ahead of Computers: NYT
• Fairfax Financial Ltd chief Prem Watsa tells his ‘Horatio Alger’ story: FP
• How to Change Minds: Blaise Pascal on the Art of Persuasion: BP
• Ten communication secrets of great leaders: Quartz

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 23 May (Sat) – Lessons From a Buffett Believer; Why Do We Experience Awe? Because it moves us to do things for the greater good

Life

• Every Man an Archimedes; Insights can seem to appear spontaneously, but fully formed. No wonder the ancients spoke of muses. WSJ
• Why Do We Experience Awe? Because it moves us to do things for the greater good: NYT
• 13 of the best graduation speeches of all time: BI
• Lessons From a Buffett Believer: WSJ
• Think different: Yancey Hai left a 21-year career in banking for power systems maker Taiwan’s Delta Electronics, and has not looked back.: BT
• Watch Robert De Niro tell graduates about dealing with rejection: Quartz
• Bouncing off Tharman’s trampoline: BT
• Elon Musk didn’t like his kids’ school, so he made his own small, secretive school without grade levels: BI
• 10 innovation lessons inspired by Homer Simpson: FP
• Embracing Disruptive Change: Why Is it So Difficult? WSJ
• What Google looks for in entrepreneurs when it’s thinking about acquiring a company: BI
• How Discovery keeps innovating; CEO Adrian Gore describes how the South African company has been shaking up its industry through business-model innovation and explains what helps to catalyze new ideas. McKinsey
• Inside “(Dis)Honesty – The Truth About Lies.”: Forbes
• Signs That You’re Being Too Stubborn: HBR
• Notes To The Charlie Rose 3 episode interview of Warren Buffett: RBCPA
• Revealing Seven Personality Traits That Have Made Warren Buffett A Cheerful Billionaire: VW
• Buffett in WSJ Op-Ed: Better Than Raising the Minimum Wage: Help Americans who need it with a major, carefully crafted expansion of the Earned Income Tax Credit: WSJ
• SEC Commissioner Stein Says Overlooking Bank Criminal Activity Will Lead To Further Criminal Activity: VW
• A new startup thinks it can stop Wall Street cheaters by monitoring how much traders laugh: BI
• Meet the real-life ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ Instagrammer who claims he can turn your ‘pennies into millions’: BI
• A Life-Changing Guide for Emotionally Sensitive People: TinyBuddha
• Retelling Another Person’s Story Can Make It Your Own; Repeatedly retelling an incident can trick your brain into believing it was your own experience: WSJ
• A great leadership reading list — without any business books on it: WaPo
• Proof of Cheating Casts Pall Over the SAT: Barron’s
•  Psychologist says this key skill can make people highly effective leaders: BI
• Interview: M&A advisers Michael and Yoel Zaoui; Brothers Michael and Yoel have advised on takeovers worth $152bn in two years and changed the fate of business empires: FT
• What’s Behind Big Science Frauds?: NYT

Books

• The Emotionally Sensitive Person: Finding Peace When Your Emotions Overwhelm You : Amazon
• The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World: Amazon
• Defining Moments: When Managers Must Choose Between Right and Right : Amazon
• Leading Quietly: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 22 May (Fri) – Conquering complexity with simple rules; Want To Do Big Things? Make Yourself Small; You are not special: How to get from narcissism to thoughtfulness

Life

• Conquering complexity with simple rules: Forbes
• Want To Do Big Things? Make Yourself Small: Forbes
• You are not special: How to get from narcissism to thoughtfulness: Economist
• Melinda Gates on Bill, ending poverty, and her plans to invest in women and girls: Fortune
• Incumbents as attackers: Brand-driven innovation: McKinsey
• Here’s How to Make Millions as an Art Forger: Bloomberg
• The battle of Waterloo: Appallingly bloody, yet decisive, the battle of Waterloo in June 1815 deserves the attention it is getting 200 years later: Economist
• The pressure on companies to form alliances with rivals is growing inexorably: Economist

Books

• The Art of Forgery: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 May (Thurs) – All Lives Have Equal Value: Reflections On My First Year as CEO of the Gates Foundation by Sue Desmond-Hellmann; Why Reading Books Is the Best Thing You Can Do

Life

• All Lives Have Equal Value: Reflections On My First Year as CEO of the Gates Foundation: Medium
• Why Reading Books Is the Best Thing You Can Do: Investorfieldguide
• What kind of leadership is needed in flat hierarchies? FastCo
• The Fine Line Between Success And Bankruptcy: Techcrunch
• For an Octopus, Seeing the Light Doesn’t Require Eyes: NYT
• American Innovation Lies on Weak Foundation: NYT
• How to Earn Respect as a Leader: HBR
• Focus on Winning Either Hearts or Minds: HBR
• Trader transcripts: ‘If you ain’t cheating, you ain’t trying’: FT
• Meet the French Billionaire Who Wants to Rule U.S. Cable: Bloomberg
• What’s Wrong With ‘Mathiness’ in Economics?: Bloomberg

Books

• More Than a Numbers Game: A Brief History of Accounting: Amazon
• The Story Solution: 23 Actions All Great Heroes Must Take : Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 20 May (Wed) – Inside the Magic: The definitive history of ILM, the special effects powerhouse that revolutionized moviemaking and changed entertainment forever

Life

• Inside the Magic: The definitive history of ILM, the special effects powerhouse that revolutionized moviemaking and changed entertainment forever: Wired
• 6 strategies great leaders use for long-term success:BI
• 11 pieces of life-changing advice from commencement speeches by tech celebrities: BI
• Here’s what’s on Bill Gates’ summer reading list: GatesNotes
• How To Stop Worrying: Barker
• ‘Despicable Me’ founder shares secret of success: KT
• When it comes to you and your group, keep your verbs humble: JT
• With yoji jukugo (四字熟語), four little characters can say so much: JT
• Management Accounting Skills Found Lacking in Entry-Level Talent: WSJ
• Warren Buffett impressed by children’s money-making ideas: reuters
• “Competitive Intelligence” Shouldn’t Just Be About Your Competitors; It’s about seeing the market as a whole. HBR
• Explain Your New Strategy By Emphasizing What It Isn’t; Contrasts will help your team understand how to prioritize. HBR
• Andreessen Horowitz’s lessons for Asian VCs and founders: e27
• Buddhism played a key role in Korea: KT
• David Letterman: Comedian, late night legend. and shrewd businessman?: Fortune
• Dogbert Explains What CEOs Do: Zerohedge
• Why Thought Leadership Is Absolutely Essential To Professional Services Firms: Forbes
• That’s billion, with a bee: Measuring the massive cost of hive collapse: Reuters

Books

• The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 May (Tues) – Berkshire Hathaway’s Disintermediation: Buffett’s New Managerial Model; A conductor who’s taught classes at Google and Goldman Sachs explains how great leaders inspire brilliance

Life

• A conductor who’s taught classes at Google and Goldman Sachs explains how great leaders inspire brilliance: BI
• From welfare to one of the world’s wealthiest women – the incredible rags-to-riches story of J.K. Rowling: BI
• Families Find the Principles That Keep the Business Going: NYT
• Learning From Mistakes: The question, would you go back and undo your errors is unanswerable. The question is: What wisdom have you learned that will help you going forward? : NYT
•  ICE’s Jeffrey Sprecher Has Built a Global Trading Powerhouse: II
• How Doctors Deliver Bad News; Doctors are trying new ways of solving an old problem—how to tell patients they aren’t going to get well: WSJ
• The Plain-Vanilla Accountant Goes Out of Style: WSJ
• Leading Teams through Change at the Speed of Business: Strategy&
• The crazy story of an ex-cop busted for running a website that taught people how to cheat polygraphs: BI
• Leadership Lessons From the Brothers Grimm; Whether it’s kissing frogs, slaying dragons or battling wits with the wicked witch, fairy tales hold salient leadership lessons for today’s executives. Insead

Books

• The Ignorant Maestro: How Great Leaders Inspire Unpredictable Brilliance: Amazon

Investing Process

• Berkshire Hathaway’s Disintermediation: Buffett’s New Managerial Model : SSRN

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 18 May (Mon) – Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg says this is the key to success: Trusting Yourself

Life

• Apple CEO Tim Cook Urges GWU Graduates To Develop Moral Compass; ““The sidelines are not where you want to live your life. The world needs you in the arena.”: VIMEO
• Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg says this is the key to success: Trusting Yourself: BI
• Listening well in a chorus of data: Markit’s focus on quality sets it apart from its competitors, says co-founder and president Kevin Gould.: BT
• Mozart-loving chickens may answer quest for healthier nugget: Reuters
• 5 Challenges When Startups Move Into the Big Leagues: WSJ
• Does body language help a TED Talk go viral? 5 nonverbal patterns from blockbuster talks: TED

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 May (Sun) – The fastest way to figure out if you’re doing something truly important with your life; Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit

Life

• Why leaders need to focus on how they treat employees: Fortune
• The fastest way to figure out if you’re doing something truly important with your life: BI
• Kierkegaard on Popular Opinion, the Petty Jealousies of Criticism, and the Only Cure for Embitterment in Creative Work” BP
• LA tech guru and ex-MySpace CEO reveals the 2 keys to successful startups: BI
• Inside Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh’s radical management experiment that prompted 14% of employees to quit: BI
• What Art Collectors Can Learn From Art Thief Larry Salander; Advice from burned collectors, robbed of $100 million.: Barron’s

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Bamboo Innovator Daily: 16 May (Sat) – The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos; Isaac Newton stuck needlelike bodkins into his eyes to better understand changes in light and color; Antoine Lavoisier drank nothing but milk for two weeks to examine its effects on his body

Life

• It Is, in Fact, Rocket Science; Why do we reduce great discoveries to epiphany myths? NYT
• Imagination as a Journey of Survival and Discovery: WSJ
• Rather Than Fight or Flee, Take Responsibility: NYT
• The Greatest Generation of Scientists: NYT
• When Personal Tragedy Strikes, Downshifting at Work Doesn’t Always Help: HBR
• A psychiatrist says this skill is the best indicator of a person’s ability to succeed: BI
• The man who oversaw electronics design on Dyson’s first robotic vacuum cleaner came to Silicon Valley this week to deliver a blunt message: keep it simple and test relentlessly. EETimes
• Where Would the Kardashians Be Without Kris Jenner? The mother, and manager, of reality TV’s most famous clan has created a strange new form of family business — and changed the nature of celebrity. NYT
• CEO who raised the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 a year reveals the most important quality he looks for when hiring: BI
• How removing fear can be your innovation trump card; WaPo
• To Lead Effectively, You Must Handle Uncertainty: Forbes
• Nikesh Arora: Tough player at SoftBank; Armed with $100 and two suitcases, he rose to the top of US tech. Now he is taking on Japan: FT
• MIT lecturer explains 5 key skills that separate innovators from imitators: BI
• 4 psychological tricks to instantly appear more competent: BI
• Why Tesla employees fear Elon Musk, as told by one of the company’s co-founders: BI
• In Praise of Moonshots: WSJ
• The Future Is in the Quaking Swamps; the remarkable connection between Peter Thiel and H.D. Thoreau: IFG
• Why the art market is about Piketty and Picasso; Paintings are of high value because of inequality: FT
• How to Get People to Pitch In: We cooperate because it makes us look good. NYT
• How to Understand Italy: NYT
• Decoding the Enigma of Satoshi Nakamoto and the Birth of Bitcoin: NYT
• Use Stress to Your Advantage: To perform under pressure, research finds that welcoming anxiety is more helpful than calming down: WSJ
• How Homo Economicus Went Extinct: Consumers and investors don’t act rationally, but for generations economists have pretended they do.: WSJ

Books

• The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos: Amazon
• The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil: Amazon
• Numbers Rule Your World: The Hidden Influence of Probabilities and Statistics on Everything You Do: Amazon
• Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 15 May (Fri) – Mark Zuckerberg: Let your kids play video games; The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales

Life

• Mark Zuckerberg: Let your kids play video games: BI
• The Diffusion of Useful Ignorance: Thoreau on the Hubris of Our Knowledge and the Transcendent Humility of Not-Knowing: BP
• The Magic of Moss and What It Teaches Us About the Art of Attentiveness to Life at All Scales: BP
• How to Make Use of Our Suffering: Simone Weil on Ameliorating Our Experience of Pain, Hunger, Fatigue, and All That Makes the Soul Cry: BP
• Want a new invention? Organise a competition and offer a prize: Economist
• Management training: Keeping it on the company campus; As more firms have set up their own “corporate universities”, they have become less willing to pay for their managers to go to business school: Economist
• Minding the Family Store for the Next Generation: A century-old retail business lays the groundwork for succession; Only 30 percent of family businesses survive into the second generation, and only 12 percent are viable into the third. Bloomberg
• Asia’s richest man blames ‘Western education’ for controversial son: WCT
• If you want to be the next Menulog, you’ve got to be prepared to fail: BRW

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 14 May (Thurs) – The one thing Bill Gates understood immediately but took 20 years for Steve Jobs to realize; Warren Buffett on How he Keeps up with Information

Life

• The one thing Bill Gates understood immediately but took 20 years for Steve Jobs to realize: BI
• Warren Buffett on How he Keeps up with Information: Farnam
• Happy birthday, Mark Zuckerberg! 13 quotes that show how he built the social network that took over the world: BI
• From a college dropout to a $54 billion fortune – the incredible rags-to-riches story of Oracle founder Larry Ellison: BI
• The real story behind Android’s little green robot mascot: BI
• When Do You Do Your Best Thinking? How six innovators work through their work problems: Bloomberg
• Why Hitler was such a successful orator: BI
• Bond Trader’s Judge Asks What’s Puffery and What’s Fraud; “Our hope going forward is that people will just stop lying, about anything.”: Bloomberg
• Elon Musk’s Space Dream Almost Killed Tesla: Bloomberg
• The Psychology of Choking Under Pressure: NYT
• Asian Families Slow to Consider Succession: Nearly 90% of Asia’s wealthy lack a plan to transfer control of the family business to the next generation. Barron’s
• 11 Things Ultra-Productive People Do Differently: Forbes
• A leader needs a sidekick: Greatness is not accomplished nobly, and the glorious achievement of Lincoln was made from muck. JA
• A former exec realized how big Alibaba was going to be when Jeff Bezos copied part of its founder’s speech: BI
• Picasso is not just a valuable abstract: The financial worth of any work of art remains as mysterious and unknowable as Mona Lisa’s smile: FT
• How do you govern a disrupted world?: McKinsey

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 13 May (Wed) – Gates: 50 Years of Warren’s Wisdom; Marc Andreessen paid a midnight visit to the founders of Airbnb that ‘changed the company forever’; From pumping gas to a $6 billion fortune — the impressive rags-to-riches story of Forever 21′s husband-and-wife cofounders

Life

• 50 Years of Warren’s Wisdom: GatesNotes
• Marc Andreessen paid a midnight visit to the founders of Airbnb that ‘changed the company forever’: BI
• From pumping gas to a $6 billion fortune — the impressive rags-to-riches story of Forever 21′s husband-and-wife cofounders: BI
• Mr HDB Mr Lim Km San: He proved HDB critics wrong: AsiaOne
• Warren Buffett tells Bill Gates why he’s such an optimist: BI
• How playing World of Warcraft every day for a year led Robert Hohman to found a US$1 billion start-up: SCMP
• A UK productivity evangelist with eyes on £300bn prize; John Neill believes ‘Unipart Way’ can help UK business compete: FT
• Bill Gates, Andy Grove and Steve Jobs: The Strategies They Shared: NYT
• What the Starbucks CEO Learned from Gen. McChrystal: Generalship is more like gardening than playing chess says the man who tracked down Saddam Hussein and al-Zarqawi.: WSJ
• To Win People Over, Speak to Their Wants and Needs: HBR
• What sets LeBron James truly apart? His mind. Fortune
• The incredible life of Jimmy Choo founder Tamara Mellon: BI
• CEO: How a small shift in my language opened up massive growth opportunities: BI
• What Is Strategy, Again?: HBR
• Schwarzman: Harvard Admitted Rejecting Me Was a Mistake: Bloomberg
• Elon Musk’s childhood was ‘excruciating’ and he got beaten up a lot: BI
• Comic book writer explains how she gets paid to make people uncomfortable: BI
• 10 proven tactics for reading people’s body language: BI
• Google has a secret apartment where Larry Page and Elon Musk meet to discuss crazy ideas about the future: BI
• The world’s lust for new technology is creating a ‘hell on Earth’ in Mongolia: BI
• Banks Rethink Common Sales Tricks: Long-acceptable trading tactics on Wall Street become potential criminal offenses: WSJ
• Buddhist Monk in Thailand Relies on Karma for Lending Success; Microlender sets interest according to borrower’s good deeds, avoids defaults with neighborly peer pressure: WSJ
• ‘Revolution of the Eye: Modern Art and the Birth of American Television’ Review: WSJ

Books

• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 12 May (Tues) – Hulu founder to new grads: Don’t be afraid to pave your own road to success

Life 

• Hulu founder to new grads: Don’t be afraid to pave your own road to success: BI
• What’s the Point of a Professor? We used to be mentors and moral authorities. Now we just hand out A’s. NYT
• How to spot a compliment with an ulterior motive: BI
• Words in Japanese that describe timing and conditions make it easy for speakers to be incredibly precise using very few words. JT
• The 22 most memorable quotes from the new Elon Musk book, ranked: WaPo
• 15 Words of Wisdom on Finding an Edge: JJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 11 May (Mon) – People laughed at this entrepreneur’s idea – now it’s a $500 million business, thanks to his mom’s encouraging words

Life

• People laughed at this entrepreneur’s idea – now it’s a $500 million business, thanks to his mom: BI
• How The HondaJet Took Flight: An Engineer’s 29-Year Obsession: Forbes
• From New Zealand to Pittsburgh, a Moneyball Approach to Helping Troubled Kids; In a program pioneered in New Zealand and arriving soon in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, social workers use data to figure out who’s most at risk. Bloomberg
• How Uncertainty Fuels Anxiety: An inability to live with life’s unknowns can lead to worry and distress. Atlantic
• Your Brain Is Primed To Reach False Conclusions: 538
• Will White-Collar Work Get an Uber Disruption? Bloomberg
• How To Improve Self-Esteem: A New Secret From Research: Barker
• Celframe billionaire Arun Pudur is Asia’s wealthiest entrepreneur under 40; the software firm now produces the world’s second most popular word processor after Microsoft: AsiaOne

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 10 May (Sun) – Presidents, Mother’s Day and American Tradition

Life 

• Presidents, Mother’s Day and American Tradition: Forbes
• Creating grit in students; What if the secret of success is failure? Should an educator ever cause a student to feel frustated, even to fail?: JP
• Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s Lessons Learned: Five years after his firing, the former U.S. commander in Afghanistan on modern warfare, Islamic State and applying military lessons to the business world: WSJ
• Rodents Could Predict the Next Big Quake: bloomberg
• How Hells Angels and criminal gangs came to control much of the Vancouver docks: NP
• Is the Game Hive the Next Chess? The game Hive, in which players control bugs of different types, has unique tactics, but it echoes some concepts from chess: WSJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 9 May (Sat) – 25 daily habits that will make you smarter; The Navy SEAL Art of War: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Most Elite Fighting Forc

Life

• 25 daily habits that will make you smarter: BI
• 9 Ways Mentally Strong People Prevent Self-Pity From Sabotaging Their Success: Forbes
• How one woman survived a bad career break, then launched a life-changing business; The inspiring, never-say-die story of Homa Dashtaki and White Moustache yogurt.: FastCo
• How to be good: Biologists and philosophers offer different answers on how to help altruism flourish. By Stephen Cave: FT
• How WisdomTree’s Jonathan Steinberg Made Good on a Second Chance: NYT
• The Life of the Mind: Can biographies really help us understand the scientific ideas that shape our world?: WSJ
• Boyz II Men’s Nathan Morris And Shawn Stockman, On Their Formula For Success: Forbes
• Behavioural economics has made headway, but still has a long way to go: Economist
• The long hard task of America’s founding fathers: Economist
• Tired Of Recruiting’s Broken Image, Airbnb Rewrites The Playbook: Forbes
• Scents of Smell Rooted in Math: Nose knows different odors, no matter how powerful, thanks to predictable patterns transmitted to brain: WSJ
• How Our Brains Judge Crime Cases: WSJ

Books

• The Navy SEAL Art of War: Leadership Lessons from the World’s Most Elite Fighting Force : Amazon, BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 8 May (Fri) – What 13 highly successful people read every morning: Buffett reads the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New York Times, USA Today, the Omaha World-Herald, and the American Banker in the mornings

Life

• What 13 highly successful people read every morning: BI
• Danger of doing the right thing; We all have a moral accounting system. We need to become aware of the process, and learn to stay the repeat the good: KT
• 11 years ago, a mom wrote one letter a day to her daughter to help her through 6th grade – and her advice is timeless: BI
• Competing With Ordinary Resources: MIT
• 10 Core Questions That Will Tell You If You’re Ready To Become A Thought Leader: Forbes
• Here’s how standardized tests like the SAT have poisoned America’s classrooms: BI
•  Twitter CEO Dick Costolo Q&A: What to Do When People Say ‘You Suck’: Bloomberg
• Chess champion Magnus Carlsen told us how he decides to make a move, and it’s not what we expected: BI
• The eight essentials of innovation; Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. McKinsey
• Dogbert Explains ‘Diversification’ In Today’s Market: Zerohedge
• Daniel Loeb Criticizes Warren Buffett, in a Rare Public Swipe: Hedge-fund investor Loeb sees a ‘disconnect’ between words and deeds of esteemed Berkshire CEO: WSJ
• Learning the Language of Indirectness: HBR
• What Big Companies Get Wrong About Innovation Metrics: HBR
• How to Give a Killer Presentation: HBR
• Warren Buffett Under Attack On Multiple Fronts: Forbes
• Kynikos Associates Jim Chanos thinks the weak minded follow personalities, while the strong follow ideas: VW
• In the NBA, No Job Is Safe; Why winning coaches are still getting fired despite success on the sidelines: WSJ
• My Number One Advice for Startups or VCs: Conviction > Consensus: BSOTT
• Why Compassion Is a Better Managerial Tactic than Toughness: HBR

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 7 May (Thurs) – Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature; What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work: The winners will have curiosity, creativity and more tools available to help them connect with their audience

Life

• What Hollywood Can Teach Us About the Future of Work: The winners will have curiosity, creativity and more tools available to help them connect with their audience: NYT
• CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation explains the most important leadership lesson she’s ever learned; Sue Desmond-Hellmann: Helping People Find Their Sweet Spot: BI, NYT
• Baby Buffett: Will Bill Ackman Resurrect The Ghost Of Howard Hughes And Build A Corporate Empire?: Forbes
• Forbes think Bill Ackman might be the next Warren Buffett: BI
• 10 lessons to learn from world’s fastest growing startups: Dailysocial
• Hargreaves Lansdown founder: ‘Most fund managers are complete morons’; Peter Hargreaves, who became a billionaire by selling funds, has made an outspoken attack on the managers who run them: Telegraph
• How Not to Drown in Numbers: The key question isn’t “What did I measure?” but “What did I miss?”: NYT
• These are the richest billionaires in every European country – and how they made their money: BI
• The World’s Largest Companies: Forbes
• Volkswagen battle highlights contrast between family-run firms in Asia and Europe: SCMP
• The origin of complex life: Shape-shifters; The ancient ancestors of animal and plant cells have just been identified: Economist
• We can already send thoughts from one brain to another – and that might eventually let us download skills: BI
• Op-Ed: Dear startup founders, don’t be thankless; Founders should not forget that along with the huge sums, comes an obligation to act responsibly: e27
• Is this the rudest CEO resignation letter ever?: Telegraph
• Relying on Product Reviews? Knowing How a Company Treats Its Customers Is Just as Valuable: NYT
• Get in the Right State of Mind for Any Negotiation: HBR

Books

• Questions of Character: Illuminating the Heart of Leadership Through Literature: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 6 May (Wed) – 7 Important Life Lessons Everyone Learns the Hard Way. What Is Your Purpose? We need to forge new ways to seriously discuss the deepest questions in life with modern tools

Life

• What Is Your Purpose? We need to forge new ways to seriously discuss the deepest questions in life with modern tools. NYT
• 7 Important Life Lessons Everyone Learns the Hard Way: Marc&Angel
• The $112 Billion CEO Succession Problem: Strategy&
• The growing business of detecting unconscious bias: FastCo
•  The New Rules for Growing Outside Your Core Business: HBR
• Growing by adapting at speed; How do companies stay ahead when everyone is accelerating? Not by merely adapting to changing conditions, but by doing so quickly and decisively: McKinsey
• Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong shares source code for Sudoku project: e27
• Walmart CEO: Waiting for consensus “can kill you”: Forbes
• In face of IS successes, al-Qaida adapts, grows stronger: ChinaPost
• 52 Years and Counting: America’s Longest-Serving CEOs: WSJ
• In ‘Misbehaving,’ an Economics Professor Isn’t Afraid to Attack His Own: NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 5 May (Tues) – The Philosophy of Warren E. Buffett

Life

•  The Philosophy of Warren E. Buffett: NYT
• Meet the father-son team making $1.3 million on YouTube; 9-year-old Evan and his dad have turned their love of toys into a seven-figure YouTube business: FastCo
• A neuroscientist explains how being aware of your emotions can make you super-productive: BI
• Here’s what Warren Buffett told a 7th grader who asked for his advice: BI
• Berkshire’s Warren Buffett Shows His Teddy Bear Image Has Tough Side: NYT
• Kick forced ranking out of the office; Ignore Jack Welch: Yahoo’s quarterly reviews show how employee ‘leagues’ cause turbulence: FT
• Art of the Japanese company apology: It’s all in the bow: JT
• Inside the school Silicon Valley thinks will save education: Wired
• Restoring Humanity to Leadership: Insead

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 4 May (Mon) – The most brilliant things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said at Berkshire’s annual meeting

Life

• The most brilliant things Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger said at Berkshire’s annual meeting: BI
• How To Win Like PayPal Co-founder Peter Thiel: Six Of His Rules for Business Success: Forbes
• Charlie Munger – Part Nine: Colorful Charlie And The Cinderella Principle: VW
• 40 Busy Years Later, Paul Allen, a Microsoft Founder, Considers His Creation: NYT
• Warren Buffett forced to defend relationship with Brazil’s 3G Capital: FT
• Fantastic words with no easy translation in other languages: Quartz
• How To Get Smarter: barker

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