Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 3 May (Sun) – The Case Against Competing; Buffett Says Next Berkshire CEO Should Be More Than Stock Picker

Berkshire Hathaway 50th Anniversary

• Buffett Says Next Berkshire CEO Should Be More Than Stock Picker: Bloomberg
• What You Should – and Shouldn’t – Learn from Warren Buffett: WSJ
• Berkshire Shareholders Pepper Warren Buffett With Some Hard Questions: WSJ, Reuters, Fortune
• 50 Years of Warren Buffett in The Wall Street Journal: WSJ
• WSJ Recap: The 2015 Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting: WSJ
• 7 Takeaways From the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting: WSJ

Life

• The Case Against Competing: HBR
• The Workhorse and the Butterfly: Ann Patchett on Writing and Why Self-Forgiveness Is the Most Important Ingredient of Great Art: BP
• JFK on Poetry, Power, and the Artist’s Role in Society: His Eulogy for Robert Frost, One of the Greatest Speeches of All Time: BP
• Creating values through horizontal leadership: Mayora Indah’s Ricky Afrianto is strengthening brand positioning and boosting sales by saying now to bureaucratic management constraints. JP
• 3 Steps to Break Out in a Tired Industry: HBR
• Mental Model: Bias from Overconfidence: Farnam
• Michael Mauboussin on Intuition, Experts, Technology, and Making Better Decisions: Farnam
• The Procrastination Doom Loop-and How to Break It: Atlantic
• The Art of Staying Focused in a Distracting World: Atlantic
• Mixed Signals: Why People Misunderstand Each Other; The psychological quirks that make it tricky to get an accurate read on someone’s emotions: Atlantic
• SurveyMonkey CEO Dave Goldberg Dies Suddenly at 47: WSJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 2 May (Sat) – The Enduring Hunt for Personal Value; Spend Your Day With Berkshire Hathaway (Whether You Want to or Not): Warren Buffett’s products and services are everywhere

Berkshire Hathaway 50th Anniversary

• Spend Your Day With Berkshire Hathaway (Whether You Want to or Not); Warren Buffett’s products and services are everywhere. Just look at what you’re doing Saturday: Bloomberg
• Berkshire Hathaway’s meeting: Fun at fifty; The sage of Omaha celebrates half a century on top of the world: Economist
• Woodstock of Capitalism’s odd couple: FT
• I’ve Followed Warren Buffett For Decades And These 10 Quotes Are What I Keep Coming Back To: LinkedIn
• What Will Berkshire Look Like Over the Next 50 Years?: Morningstar
• Warren Buffett: ‘If You’re Looking for a Wonderful Business, It’s Hard to Beat Coca-Cola’: Coca-Cola
• Timeless Investment Lessons From Warren Buffett’s Business Partner, Charlie Munger: Morningstar
• Why Warren Buffett considers the deal he made with an 89-year-old woman one of the best of his career: BI

Life 

• The Enduring Hunt for Personal Value: NYT
• David Letterman Reflects on 33 Years in Late-Night Television: NYT
• Self-image matters: Helping kids see themselves as readers: WaPo
• Ancient DNA Tells a New Human Story; Armed with old bones and new DNA sequencing technology, scientists are getting a much better understanding of the prehistory of the human species: WSJ
• The Rise and Fall of the Term ‘Third World’; Report says the phrase ‘Third World’ had its start at a 1955 conference, but the words grew out of the work of French social scientists: WSJ
• Distaff Scientists: Is it wrong to be captivated by a great thinker’s personality, rather than the drier stuff of résumés? WSJ
• The Half-Life of Physicists: In 1947 Erwin Schrödinger boasted of a big new result that would beat his sometime collaborator Albert Einstein. They were both wrong.: WSJ
• Billionaire investor Peter Thiel: ‘Always aim for a monopoly. From society’s perspective, it’s complicated. But from the inside, I always want to have a monopoly.’: BI
• Ten Golden Nuggets: SeekingWisdom
• Addiction to Truth: David Carr, the Measure of a Person, and the Uncommon Art of Elevating the Common Record: BP
• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned From Comedians About the Business of Life: 25iq
• An eminent scientist posits a new theory of how life came to be; The Vital Question: Why Is Life the Way It Is? By Nick Lane: Economist

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 1 May (Fri) – After Warren Buffett: Berkshire Prepares for Life Without Legendary Leader

Berkshire Hathaway 50th Anniversary

• What Is Berkshire Hathaway? WSJ
• Warren Buffett losing some mojo on his economic ‘moats’: Reuters
• Warren Buffett Has a Tough Act to Follow; Berkshire Hathaway’s Warren Buffett hasn’t lost his touch, but future returns aren’t likely to match his historical record. WSJ
• 11 Picks from Warren Buffett’s Bookshelf: WSJ
• After Warren Buffett: Berkshire Prepares for Life Without Legendary Leader; Berkshire Hathaway’s octogenarian CEO does ‘everything humanly possible’ to make sure culture grows without him: WSJ

Life 

• Shredding the rules: A striking number of innovative companies have business models that flout the law: Economist
• The eight essentials of innovation: Strategic and organizational factors are what separate successful big-company innovators from the rest of the field. McKinsey
• Say This, Not This: The Words to Use and the Words to Lose: Milken
• When It’s Safe to Rely on Intuition (and When It’s Not): HBR
• An exam board chief wants British students to use Google to find answers in their tests: BI
• The 9 biggest mistakes people make in their 30s: BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 30 Apr (Thurs) – Francois Michelin, Who Took French Tiremaker Global, Dies at 88; The 13 most valuable skills that anyone could have

Life 

• Francois Michelin, Who Took French Tiremaker Global, Dies at 88: Bloomberg, ST
• The 13 most valuable skills that anyone could have: BI
• The Art Of Giving Feedback: Techcrunch
• Life advice upon turning age 30, from the president of Y Combinator: Quartz
• Author Brian Little on Personality and the ‘Art of Well-being’: K@W
• Business Owners Rethink Legacy: Barron’s
• A Radical Idea: Own Your Supply Chain; As most companies outsource trucks and drivers, Ashley Furniture takes a different path: WSJ
• Texas A&M professor gave us a detailed explanation for why he failed his entire ‘entitled’ management class: BI
• Should the law serve humans, or should humans serve the law?: JP
• The art of apology for bosses in Japan: AsiaOne
• So you think you can get out of finance? An anthropologist says no: efc
• What to Do When Your Future Strategy Clashes with Your Present: HBR
• Science explains how people can lie and cheat – and still feel good about themselves:BI
• Corporate power without responsibility on the board; Instead of long-termism at Industrivärden and Volkswagen, there was corporate self-indulgence: FT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 29 Apr (Wed) – Why you need to commit to something to find your calling

Life 

• Why you need to commit to something to find your calling: BI
• Charlie Munger’s 2015 Daily Journal Annual Meeting: Forbes1, Forbes2, Forbes3, Forbes4
• Don’t Force Decisions; Just Back Off and Adjust. Or Go for a Walk. NYT
• How You Make Decisions Is as Important as What You Decide: HBR
• The Art of Evangelism: HBR
• Old Management Systems Stifle New Business Models: HBR
• Charlatans exist, in finance (and medicine), because we crave certainty: ReformedBroker
• Why this CEO believes an MBA is worthless: Fortune
• Are You OK? Xiaomi CEO’s Awkward English Goes Viral, Sparks Debate: WSJ
• Manny Pacquiao: Where It All Began; In General Santos, there are signs of the local hero’s success everywhere across the city: WSJ
• Why Buffett’s Capitalist Woodstock Won’t Endure Like Garcia Jams: bloomberg
• Ten things I learned studying ten of the world’s fastest growing startups: Quartz
• How ‘doing the kind thing’ is changing the way we snack and give back one bite at a time: FP
• The ship of fools and the country of fools; The ship of fools is an allegory ascribed to Plato that describes a captainless ship drifting at sea, carrying deranged and disoriented passengers entirely oblivious to their course: KH
• LKY: Singapore’s anti-corruption visionary: BT
• New Spore: Hwa Chong boy boasts loudly on bus about getting teacher fired: AsiaOne

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 28 Apr (Tues) – The remarkable life and lessons of the $8 million janitor; Warren Buffett’s ‘Ringmaster’ Turns Grand Ideas Into Reality

Life 

• Warren Buffett’s ‘Ringmaster’ Turns Grand Ideas Into Reality; At Berkshire Hathaway’s annual meeting, Carrie Sova makes sure everything runs smoothly: WSJ
• The remarkable life and lessons of the $8 million janitor: WaPo
• ‘Safest bike ever’ devised by British entrepreneur: Reuters
• There’s No Such Thing as Corporate DNA: BCG
• The Eight Outsiders In One Chart: VW
• Lessons from Intraco, Singapore’s original trailblazer: TODAY
• The Future of Reading: There’s No Mystery About It; Walter Mosley, best-selling author of the Easy Rawlins series, has good news for those who love to read: WSJ
• Contortions are required for Cirque du Soleil to keep its magic; The steps to take to prevent innovative businesses turning into bland production lines: FT
• Lotte chief stresses importance of ‘agile workers’: KT
• The 5 Requirements of a Truly Innovative Company: HBR
• The innovators: mist system offers a safer way to control fires; The creators of Automist explain how a fine mist can cool and suppress fires more effectively than sprinkler systems, especially when caused by chip pans: Guardian
• Why A Corporate Culture of ‘Kindness’ Is Great For Your Brand: Forbes
• Junk Science at the F.B.I.: NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 27 Apr (Mon) – The Reasons We Deny Luck

Life

• The Reasons We Deny Luck: Farnam
• The mystery of billionaires’ long marriages; It is remarkable how many of the super-successful have stuck by their first spouse: FT
• Why Coding Is Your Child’s Key to Unlocking the Future; Educators call for making computer science a cornerstone of the curriculum, even for grade-school kids: WSJ
• How To Get Organized: 2 Solutions From Philosophy And Kindergarten: Barker
• Starving for Wisdom: NYT
• Leo McKee, BrightHouse CEO: unrepentant about rent-to-own: FT
• Turning a Children’s Rating System Into an Advocacy Army; James Steyer’s nonprofit organization, Common Sense Media, is known for offering parents guidance on games and videos, but he has a grander vision. NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 26 Apr (Sun) – The Art of Stumbling: David Brooks on Character, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life

Life

• The Art of Stumbling: David Brooks on Character, “Résumé Virtues” vs. “Eulogy Virtues,” and the Humility Code of Living a Meaningful Life: BP
• How We Elevate Each Other: Viktor Frankl on the Human Spirit and Why Idealism Is the Best Realism: BP
• The Remedy for Unproductive Busyness: HBR
• Finally: A Business Memoir That Owes More To Nassim Taleb Than To Jack Welch: Forbes
• The 50 Most Trustworthy Companies In Western Europe: Forbes
• How to Help Someone Develop Emotional Intelligence: HBR
• Trial and Error Is No Way to Make Strategy: HBR
• Fooled by Experience: HBR
• A Journey To Intelligent Design: Techcrunch
• Taking a business legacy and changing with the times; Scion of an affluent business family, Lance Gokongwei is reaching new heights with his own acumen. JP

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 25 Apr (Sat) – David Brooks’s new book: ‘The Road to Character’ and a path to grace

Life 

• David Brooks’s new book: ‘The Road to Character’ and a path to grace: WaPo
• Love and Merit: Parenting in America is experiencing a silent epidemic of conditional love. NYT
• Language Shapes Thoughts—and Storm Preparations; Why gendered names of hurricanes may be a bad idea: WSJ
• Startup founders describe how they got through the hardest part: BI
• How to Save American Colleges; The Purdue president on freezing tuition, how to reduce student debt, and busting the accreditation cartel. WSJ
• Do Strong Religious Beliefs Stifle Innovation?: WSJ
• The Economics of Suspense: NYT
• Transferring and sustaining the family wealth: BT
• A psychological trick to instantly feel more productive: BI
• Why Bad News Is Good News; Consuming bad news is evolutionarily adaptive, but the nature of the social Web might limit its supply. PSmag
• Why can’t we read anymore? Or, can books save us from what digital does to our brains?: Medium
• An Academic Job Slump is Making Graduate Students Depressed: Bloomberg
• Inside the Podcast Brain: Why Do Audio Stories Captivate? The emotional appeal of listening; “Our brain is trying to save resources and energy. We only want to give attention to something when it matters.” Atlantic

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 24 Apr (Fri) – 13 ways successful people think differently

Life

• 13 ways successful people think differently: BI
• The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people, according to billionaire John Paul DeJoria: successful people do all the things unsuccessful people don’t want to do. BI
• Twilight of the gurus: The management-pundit industry is a shadow of its former self: Economist
• The process of invention: Now and then; Patent records reveal that the way inventions are made has changed over the years: Economist
• 13 everyday phrases that actually came from Shakespeare: BI
• Increase productivity with this ‘2-minute-rule’ for answering emails: BI
• One of Matt Damon’s Harvard professors gave him a small note that completely changed ‘Good Will Hunting’: BI
• A Brief History of the Ways Companies Compete: HBR
• The Basic Principles of Strategy Haven’t Changed in 30 Years: HBR
• Beyond Education Wars: K-12 education is an exhausted, bloodsoaked battlefield. Let’s shift some of the reformist passions to early childhood: NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 23 Apr (Thurs) – Mark Zuckerberg shared some simple advice for success: Don’t give up

Life 

• Mark Zuckerberg shared some simple advice for success: Don’t give up: BI
• The incredible rags-to-riches story of British lingerie tycoon Michelle Mone: BI
• How to Determine Which Part of What You Know Really Matters: K@W
• A woman created an awesome resume to land her dream job at Airbnb — and it caught the CEO’s attention immediately; resume showcases what she knows about the travel industry, what she could contribute to Airbnb, and what she thinks the company should pursue next: BI
• The Secret To Getting Good At Things Quickly: Forbes
• Great Entrepreneurs Share These Six Traits – And Some May Surprise You: Forbes
• How Spanx got me an interview with Warren Buffett: BI
• Here’s how ‘Mad Men’ creator Matthew Weiner manages his super busy schedule: BI
• 7 Strategies That Make Speechwriting Easier: Slideshare
• What’s the best advice you’ve ever received?: LinkedIn
• This Design Professor Makes Products With No Labels On Them: Bloomberg
• Nice Ph.D. Think It Was Worth It?: Bloomberg
• Everyone Profits from the Return on Character; soft factors like integrity, forgiveness, and compassion energize employees and customers — and deliver better returns: Strategy&
• The world’s brightest scientific minds posed for this 1927 photo after historic debates about quantum mechanics: BI
• Fortune’s World’s Greatest Leaders: 50 intrepid guides for a messy world: Fortune
• A study in enterprise risk management: Lee Kuan Yew’s governance gives several case studies of enterprise risk management: Risks were identified, assessed, responded to, controlled, and monitored: BT
• Can Your Relationship Handle a Trip to IKEA? The furniture store can easily lead to arguments for stressed-out couples; how to avoid the ‘IKEA meltdown’: WSJ
• A Startup Sours After A Falling Out; A Florida entrepreneur’s company fizzles after a messy split with investor and co-founders: WSJ
• Five of the most epic failures in business history: Quartz
• How revolution discovered its need of business: JA

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 22 Apr (Wed) – Forget Buffett the investor. Follow Buffett the manager; 8-year-old girl earns $173,000 monthly from YouTube channel; Elon Musk’s first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire: “Shift your focus away from what you want (a billion dollars) and get deeply, intensely curious about what the world wants and needs”

Life 

• Forget Buffett the investor. Follow Buffett the manager: Fortune
• Elon Musk’s first wife explains what it takes to become a billionaire: “Shift your focus away from what you want (a billion dollars) and get deeply, intensely curious about what the world wants and needs”: BI
• 8-year-old girl earns $173,000 monthly from YouTube channel: AsiaOne
• Becoming Powerful Makes You Less Empathetic: HBR
• In praise of caregivers; When a loved one requires long-term care, how many of us can really go the distance?: TheStar
• Lose your fear of ridicule and think more like a designer; Start-ups can learn from the ‘make and fail’ design approach, writes Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia: FT
• How to become known as the best in your field: BI
• Goh’s folly? No, Jurong is Goh’s glory: AsiaOne
•  ‘The Little Prince’ trailer looks better than anything Pixar has made in years: BI
• The Imagination Gap: Business leaders in at least 16 sectors are still not fully prepared for the digital transformation of their industries: Strategy&
• Eight Key Points of Blue Ocean Strategy: Insead
• 8 habits of curious people: FastCo
• Brand camp: how to market a family business: CampdebFB
• ‘Daredevil’ and the fantasy of an easy fight against gentrification: WaPo
• Smart Arms Control the Potential Chaos of Octopus Movement; How does an octopus control eight highly flexible and independent arms so well?: NYT
• The World’s Most Reputable Companies In 2015: Forbes
• Why Worrying About Competition Can Destroy Your Business: Forbes
• Why finding the right career is as rare as getting a seat on a rocket ship: Fotune
• ‘Vague’ Japanese language can be maddeningly specific: JT
• Why “Company Culture” Is a Misleading Term: HBR
• There Are Still Only Two Ways to Compete: HBR
• Why So Many of Us Experience a Midlife Crisis: HBR
• Still Hungering for Tech Knowledge, Corporate Directors Pay for Education: WSJ
• The Trouble With Grading Employees; Performance ratings such as ‘meets expectations’ sap workers’ morale, but firms aren’t sure they can do without them: WSJ
• Your Total Addressable Market Stat Is Probably a Lie: Hunterwalk
• What I’d tell myself about startups if I could go back 5 years. TQ
• This meditation teacher has an amazing explanation – and solution – for why so many of us can’t escape the voice in our heads: BI
• LearnVest CEO shares her 2 favorite interview questions: Tell me about a time on a Sunday that you were thinking about going back to work and you hated your job. Why? What was it?: BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 21 Apr (Tues) – Daniel Levitin on information overload: Why daydreaming not multitasking is the way to process the unprecedented amount of information we now face

Life

• Daniel Levitin on information overload: Why daydreaming not multitasking is the way to process the unprecedented amount of information we now face: YouTube, Aeon
• 5 Secrets To Always Making A Good First Impression: Barker
• The Puzzling Rise in Nearsighted Children; To battle an explosion of myopia, eye researchers try more outdoor time, medication, even a giant, translucent cube: WSJ
• Why there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur: WaPo
• Here’s how to win any argument: BI
• One CEO says these 7 lessons from ping-pong have helped him grow a successful business: BI
• Macquarie’s bad apples still working in financial planning: TheAge
• The most important lesson I learned as a tech CEO: Fortune
• How A Dying Family Nut Shop Morphed Into A Thriving Web Retailer: Forbes
• There’s a Difference Between Cooperation and Collaboration: HBR
•  Resilient infrastructure key to safer cities: BT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 20 Apr (Mon) – ‘Ojuk’: black bamboo craft; Tradition is a spirit not a skill; “I learned precious values through working with my teacher, like masterful perseverance and endurance and the historical significance of black bamboos. If an artisan is not ready for poverty and hardship, he or she cannot endure this entire process. My only goal is to transmit this art to others.”

Life

• ‘Ojuk’: black bamboo craft; Tradition is a spirit not a skill; “I learned precious values through working with my teacher, like masterful perseverance and endurance and the historical significance of black bamboos”: KT
• How Abraham Lincoln Became a Saint: Bloomberg
• Responses to David Brooks: The Road to Inner Virtue: NYT
• The six skills that make entrepreneurs extraordinary: Quartz
• How Steve Jobs became the greatest businessman the world has ever known: BI
• Computational thinking an essential skill for next-generation: TODAY
• A 30-year work anniversary is a freak event to be cheered; If Warren Buffett can spend decades at one company, so can others: FT
• Shopping Mall Developer Taubman Dies at 91; Taubman died Friday night at his home of a heart attack: WSJ
• What Leaders Can Learn from a Long Run: WSJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 19 Apr (Sun) – A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas

Life

• Young Delacroix on the Importance of Solitude in Creative Work and How to Resist Social Distractions; “Nourish yourself with grand and austere ideas of beauty that feed the soul… Seek solitude.”: BP
• Do intelligent people worry more?: Slate
• The Traits of Socially Innovative Companies: HBR

Books

• A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas : Amazon
• Leading with Questions: How Leaders Find the Right Solutions by Knowing What to Ask: Amazon

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 18 Apr (Sat) – For Lucasfilm, the Way of Its Force Lies in Its ‘Star Wars’ Fans; 11 super successful tech leaders who overcame the handicap of being late arrivals to America

Life

• For Lucasfilm, the Way of Its Force Lies in Its ‘Star Wars’ Fans: NYT
• 11 super successful tech leaders who overcame the handicap of being late arrivals to America: BI
• 7 Lessons to Learn If You Want to Thrive in Life: TinyBuddha
• 10 techniques from professional artists for breaking through creative blocks: FastCo
• The major Bloomberg outage was fixed by effectively switching it off and on again: BI
• The truth about Google’s famous ‘20% time’ policy: BI
• The Power of Starting With ‘Yes’: NYT
• How to beat the transformation odds; Transformational change is still hard. But a focus on communicating, leading by example, engaging employees, and continuously improving can triple the odds of success. McKinsey
• The major Bloomberg outage was fixed by effectively switching it off and on again: BI
• United by diversity: The four main types of family business: Economist
• Perpetuating inequality: To those that have; The dark side of family capitalism: Economist
• Survival of the fittest: The success of family companies turns much of modern business teaching on its head: Economist
• Asian values: In the world’s most dynamic region, family companies occupy the commanding heights of capitalism: Economist
• Making it work: The family way; Distinctive problems call for tailor-made solutions: Economist
• All too human: How families can cause trouble for their firms: Economist
• Old-fashioned virtues: Patience, distinctiveness, thrift and trust still count: Economist
• Family companies: To have and to hold; Far from declining, family firms will remain an important feature of global capitalism for the foreseeable future: Economist
• Jack Welch says the best thing to do when you make a big mistake is to ‘own your whack’: BI
• Intel’s chairman says young job seekers should prepare for this one interview question: BI, NYT
• Corporate stagnation: What makes corporations stop innovating?: e27
• Reading With Imagination: Opinionator
• Life’s Work: An Interview with Brian Grazer, author of A Curious Mind: HBR

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 17 Apr (Fri) – A doctor who swallowed a petri dish of bacteria and won a Nobel Prize can teach you a valuable lesson about success. We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other

Life

• A doctor who swallowed a petri dish of bacteria and won a Nobel Prize can teach you a valuable lesson about success: BI
• Most of the world’s billionaires didn’t inherit their wealth – they earned it: BI
• Saying No: How Successful People Stay Productive: Farnam
• Seymour Schulich on Deals, Business, Decisions and Life: Farnam
• We’re All Terrible at Understanding Each Other: HBR
• Motivating staff with values, not red tape: BT
• Only 3% of family businesses make the fourth generation: here are 4 essentials to getting there: BRW
• Why We Need “Game of Thrones”; Series like “Game of Thrones” and “Downton Abbey,” like Balzac and Dickens before them, serve as a source of entertainment and fodder for debate. PS
• The Look of Love Is in the Dog’s Eyes; Dogs who trained a long gaze on their owners had elevated levels of oxytocin, a hormone produced in the brain that is associated with nurturing and : NYT
• Beyond Beanbags: A guide to what makes Google a great workplace: Forbes
• The power of making people ‘feel felt’; Mark Goulston, the psychiatrist and difficult conversations expert explains the power of making people ‘feel felt’: Forbes
• Workin’ 9 to 5 to make a livin. and every other minute on your startup; Many don’t have the luxury of quitting their day job to focus on their new business. Here three entrepreneurs explain how to juggle both: Guardian
• CEOs Don’t Care Enough About Capital Allocation: HBR
• The power of families: Dynasties; The enduring power of families in business and politics should trouble believers in meritocracy: Economist
• One Way to Get Unstuck and Move Up? All You Have to Do Is Ask; At software firm Salesforce, Leyla Seka found the confidence to ask for more responsibility: WSJ
• Happy birthday to Johnson’s dictionary: Economist
• Reforming Islam: A controversial new book says Islam must change in five important areas: Economist
• The music industry: Super fantasy; “What about relying on super fans to fund you more regularly?” : Economist
• A very British business: Some lessons from the success of Britain’s elite private schools: Economist

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 16 Apr (Thurs) – Developing the Conviction to Do Meaningful Work; “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s reassuring life advice for struggling artists; Why one CEO loves when employees make mistakes; The trauma of becoming exceptional

Life

• Developing the Conviction to Do Meaningful Work: Strategy&
• “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s reassuring life advice for struggling artists: FastCo
• Why one CEO loves when employees make mistakes: BI
• The trauma of becoming exceptional: JT
•  Leaders as Decision Architects: HBR
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to employees: Embrace self-management or leave by the end of the month: BI
• Abraham Lincoln, the One President All of Them Want to Be More Like: NYT
• The Next Big Thing In Design? Less Choice: FastCo
• How 1-Year-Olds Figure Out the World; the process used by little babies to figure out the world has much in common with scientific experiments. WSJ
• A Navy Seal, a Yacht Captain, and the Other People Billionaires Trust to Manage Their Money: Bloomberg
• Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil; the inventor and futurist details his plans to live for ever; The futurist on taking 100 pills a day, the thrill of inventing – and why ‘we’re going to overcome ageing’: FT
• Review: Strategy Rules, by David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano; A study in what business leaders in other sectors can learn from three tech pioneers: FT
• The Single Biggest Mistake I’ve Made As A Leader (And How I Fixed It): Forbes
• As the world’s biggest scaffolding mogul, new billionaire Mohed Altrad frames Europe’s skylines: Forbes
• Reading is key to mastering English: KT
• What to Do If a Feud Threatens Your Family Business: HBR
• The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis: HBR

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 15 Apr (Wed) – Here’s the paradoxical trait that Peter Thiel looks for in employees: “You want people who are both really stubborn and really open-minded”; when somebody embodies rare Zen-like opposites, they’ll be more likely to come up with original ideas

Life

• Here’s the paradoxical trait that Peter Thiel looks for in employees: “You want people who are both really stubborn and really open-minded”; when somebody embodies rare Zen-like opposites, they’ll be more likely to come up with original ideas: BI
• How Jay-Z became such a successful businessman; Before he ever was a successful rapper or businessman, Jay-Z was Shawn Carter, a teen drug dealer on the streets of Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn: BI
• 12 timeless lessons from one of Warren Buffett’s favorite books, ‘How to Win Friends & Influence People’: BI
• Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 150 years ago today — here are 11 of his best quotes: BI
• The amazing story behind the only photograph of President Lincoln in death: BI
• How Spanx Got Me An Interview With Warren Buffett: VW
• How One Company Turned the Recession into an Opportunity – and Thrived: Insead
• Big Ideas Mark the Path from Strategy to Execution: Strategy&
• CEMEX: An Emerging Market Multinational: Strategy&
• CEMEX’s Strategic Mix: This Mexican cement company redefined itself as a global solutions provider with the critical capabilities to match: Strategy&
• David Cameron has trouble answering a 10-year-old’s simple question: “If you could pick one politician apart from yourself to win, who would it be, and why?”: BI
• Lack of vocational education stifles US mobility: BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 14 Apr (Tues) – JK Rowling reveals what she wishes someone had told her when she was first starting out; “It would’ve really helped to have someone who had had a measure of success come say to me, ‘You will fail. That’s inevitable. It’s what you do with it.'” How Charles Darwin used rest to be more productive — and how you can, too

Life

• JK Rowling reveals what she wishes someone had told her when she was first starting out; “It would’ve really helped to have someone who had had a measure of success come say to me, ‘You will fail. That’s inevitable. It’s what you do with it.'”: BI
• How Charles Darwin used rest to be more productive — and how you can, too: WaPo
• Tips from Buffett, Bloomberg and Marina Abramović: Fortune
• How Bill Gates’ singular focus both helped and hurt Microsoft: BI
• There’s a funny reason why people didn’t understand how to use Google when it first launched: BI
• Mr Lee ‘was careful not to let personality cult grow around him’: TODAY
• Staying true to his ideals ‘best way to honour Mr Lee’: TODAY
• Cyber criminals lead race to innovate: FT
• Allowing disabled staff to flourish: ‘How do we make this work?’: FT
• Why lying is a taboo even for the smoothest operators: FT
• The faintly feudal life of a creative worker: FT
• Why investing in workers makes companies richer; Companies such as Costco, Trader Joe’s, Nordstrom, Zappos, Lego, and others have higher employee satisfaction and outperform their competitors even though they pay more to their employees.: BI
• Billionaire entrepreneur John Paul DeJoria shares his best advice for managers: BI
• On raising kids who are more than “hoop jumpers”: A teenage TED speaker’s mom on how she encourages her sons to innovate: TED
• Starting up is so painful, I will never want to do it again: GREE Founder: e27

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 13 Apr (Mon) – Andy Warhol: Don’t Make a Problem of your Problems, How a Person Gets Disciplined, and The Value of Time on Values

Life

• Andy Warhol: Don’t Make a Problem of your Problems, How a Person Gets Disciplined, and The Value of Time on Values: Farnam
• How Pixar Solves Problems From The Inside Out: Techcrunch
• 3 leaders who shaped Mr Lee’s evolution: India’s first prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru, Henry Kissinger, Taiwan’s Chiang Ching-kuo: AsiaOne
• Doubt Yourself Less, Back Yourself More: Forbes
• Six Strategy Traps: Farnam
• Elon Musk: A Framework for Thinking: Farnam
• Endless options can be exhausting. We need to know when choice matters: Guardian
• Judi Dench’s Advice to Her 30-Year-Old Self, From Coping with Fear to Subverting the Norm: Stylist
• Twenty-First Century Stoic — From Zen to Zeno: How I Became a Stoic: BB
• What’s More Important to You: the Initial Rush of Prose or the Self-Editing and Revision That Come After It?: NYT
• Chemistry Departments Try to Attract More Students by Retooling the Major; Universities begin to overhaul traditional curricula in science field that some worry is churning out too few graduates for nation’s needs: WSJ
• 12 highly influential people share the morning routines that set them up for success: BI
• How Australian scientists are bending the rules to get research funding: TheAge
• Is more information making us more wise?: JP
• Whistleblow for a bright future; whistleblowers get between 10% and 30% of the money collected by the SEC. This has proven to be a powerful incentive for people to come forward and report wrongdoings in the capital market.: TheStar

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 12 Apr (Sun) – The Moral Bucket List: What kind of adventures produce goodness, rather than build résumés? All that matters is living up to the standard of excellence inherent in their craft; How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life

Life

• The Moral Bucket List: What kind of adventures produce goodness, rather than build résumés? All that matters is living up to the standard of excellence inherent in their craft. NYT
• How to Find Your Bliss: Joseph Campbell on What It Takes to Have a Fulfilling Life: BP
• Simone Weil on Temptation, the Key to Discipline, and How to Be a Complete Human Being: BP
• Richard Feynman on How His Father Taught Him about What Is Most Important; How to plant the seed for the lifelong pleasure of finding things out. BP
• Change the Narrative, Change Your Destiny: How James Baldwin Read His Way Out of Harlem and into Literary Greatness: BP
• Why Do We Have Allergies? Digg
• China a threat? Take some risks like Jack Ma; Sir Martin Sorrell, an ‘unabashed Chinese bull’, on why UK bosses should be taking lessons from China’s golden boy, Alibaba founder Jack Ma: Telegraph
• Warren Buffett’s Nifty Tax Loophole; Warren Buffett has backed higher individual tax rates–while ensuring that his vast wealth in Berkshire Hathaway is almost immune. Barron’s
• Memo to CEOs: Scrap the customer visit: JP

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 11 Apr (Sat) – Louis C.K. has a characteristically no-frills way of making sure his daughters aren’t spoiled; Here’s the powerful essay that got a high school senior into all 8 Ivy League schools; Chasing Happiness: ‘No one will be happy if tormented by the thought of someone else who is happier,’ Seneca said

Life

• Louis C.K. has a characteristically no-frills way of making sure his daughters aren’t spoiled: BI
• Here’s the powerful essay that got a high school senior into all 8 Ivy League schools: BI
• High school student who just got into all 8 Ivy League schools shares 4 keys to success: BI
• Chasing Happiness: ‘No one will be happy if tormented by the thought of someone else who is happier,’ Seneca said. WSJ
• Brainstorming with Marc Andreessen: Fortune
• Making a Big Decision When You’re Not Sure Which Choice Is Right: TinyBuddha
• 4 Key Ingredients For Creating An Ideas Incubator; When fostering in-house innovation, companies need to understand exactly what startups thrive on. FastCo
• Harvard Business School Makes Nearly $200 Million a Year Selling Case Studies; The school has cornered the market with a product its rivals use: Bloomberg
• CFOs Unhappy with Budget Process; Only 37 percent of CFOs and finance leaders say their organization’s approach to annual budgeting is valuable, and, of those, all of them think it needs be improved: AT
• Boeing just patented a bizarre ‘cuddle chair’ that could revolutionize how we sleep on airplanes: BI
• James Dyson lines up his son as successor by buying his lighting company: Telegraph
• Her Stinging Critiques Propel Young Adult Best Sellers; Julie Strauss-Gabel, the Dutton publisher who has developed many of the star writers who are reshaping children’s literature, is known for her unconventional taste and stinging critiques. NYT
• Why a Harvard Professor Has Mixed Feelings When Students Take Jobs in Finance: NYT
• The Rise of Cooperative Games: In Pandemic and other cooperative games, players work together toward a common objective: WSJ
• Science Books That Made Modernity: Darwin’s radical ideas were accepted surprisingly quickly by an English public already steeped in science.: WSJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 10 Apr (Fri) – Michelangelo and the Making of an Artist: (1) Surprise the Right People with Your Skills (2) Go Beyond the Possible (3) Combine Details with the Big Picture; “Michelangelo became as no other before or since the archetype of the artist: Dedicated, solitary, single-minded, tormented, harassed.”

Life

• Michelangelo and the Making of a Genius: BCG
• 11 unconventional tips for winning at life: BI
• John Paul DeJoria explains how he went from homeless to a billionaire: BI
• S’pore education system has capacity to take more risks: Expert: TODAY
• The Proximity Paradox: Balancing Auto Suppliers’ Manufacturing Networks: BCG
• Growing Through Change: An Interview with the Chairman of Lotte Group: BCG
• Succeeding with Succession Planning in Family Businesses: BCG
• Africa’s natural resources: Blood earth; Huge natural resources and poor governance are a dreadful combination: Economist
• Why the Gettysburg Address Is Still a Great Case Study in Persuasion: HBR
• Behavioral Finance for Family Offices: Barron’s
• 3 reasons why Singaporeans work such long hours; As bosses expect employees to stay late in the office, employees don’t have much incentive to do their work efficiently. many employees just work as slowly as possible until their boss leaves: AsiaOne
• Richard Branson explains why he considers dyslexia his greatest business advantage: BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 9 Apr (Thurs) – The Power of Being Yourself: A Game Plan for Success–by Putting Passion into Your Life and Work

Life

• The most important thing Warren Buffett looks for in job candidates: BI
• Peter Thiel on the Future of Innovation: Medium
• Five lessons from Lego: TheAge
• Why Google CEO Larry Page personally reviews every candidate the company hires: BI
• The unconventional strategy Sara Blakely used to launch her billion-dollar business: BI
• Financial Startups Make the Jump Without a Net; Many former Wall Street executives have found the everyday realities and autonomy can be jarring at times: WSJ
• Building Relationships in Cultures That Don’t Do Small Talk: HBR
• 8 Reasons Companies Don’t Capture More Value: HBR
• Good Leaders Aren’t Afraid to Be Nice: HBR
• Measuring the Return on Character: HBR

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 8 Apr (Wed) – How Warren Buffett defines success: True success comes from working for a purpose greater than your own well-being. “The most important takeaway is that you should always try to be a good person

Life

• How Warren Buffett defines success: True success comes from working for a purpose greater than your own well-being. “The most important takeaway is that you should always try to be a good person: BI
• Warren Buffett: The Problem With 200 Page Manuals on Behavior; “I don’t believe in 200-page manuals because if you put out a 200-page manual, everybody’s looking for loopholes basically.” Farnam
• Bill Gates has a perfect explanation of the difference between him and Steve Jobs: BI
• The secret to earning Steve Jobs’ trust, summed up in one paragraph: BI
• The strange rise of children’s books for adults, decoded: WaPo
• News Corp.’s $1 Billion Plan to Overhaul Education Is Riddled With Failures; Tablet computers and an online curriculum were supposed to help revolutionize schools. That hasn’t happened: Bloomberg
• Creative self-disruption (or how to adapt to rapid business change): Guardian
• Build an Organization That’s Less Busy and More Strategic: HBR
• Life’s Work: An Interview with Garry Kasparov: HBR
• Managing in an Age of Winner-Take-All: HBR
• Young People Need to Know Entrepreneurship Is Hard: HBR
• What Everyone Needs to Know to Be More Productive: HBR
• Middle managers who are a start-up’s unsung heroes; Hot start-ups poach savvy staff who become industry stars in their own right: FT
• Gone in 7 minutes: The Shinkansen cleaning crews: AsiaOne
• How our emotions transform mundane events into strong memories: TheAge
• CEO shares the 20 most important lessons he’s learned in 20 years of business: BI

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 7 Apr (Tues) – Local teachers need to be less risk-averse if Singapore wants an education system that creates innovators; The Secret To Never Being Frustrated Again; Keeping families together the key to children’s success; All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Life

• One CEO shares the best piece of leadership advice she’s ever received: ‘Every day when you go to work, you should ask yourself, What am I going to do for the fleet today?” BI, NYT
• Local teachers need to be less risk-averse if Singapore wants an education system that creates innovators: CNA
• The Secret To Never Being Frustrated Again: Barker
• Keeping families together the key to children’s success: SCMP
• Managing the Critical Voices Inside Your Head: HBR
• 4 Steps to Dispel a Bad Mood: HBR
• Stocks & Debts & Rock ’n’ Roll: On a tour of schools, this band sings first and then hits a personal-finance coda; Mr. Gooding shows students images of entertainers and athletes who made millions but went bankrupt, debunking myth that money solves : WSJ
• In our next president, we need someone with a portion of Abraham Lincoln’s gifts – someone who is philosophically grounded, emotionally mature and tactically cunning. NYT
• The Importance of Seeing the World in Shades of Grey: Insead
• The Most Productive Ways to Disagree Across Cultures: Insead
• Tech titans’ latest project: Defy death; For centuries, explorers have searched the world for the fountain of youth. Today’s billionaires believe they can create it, using technology and data. WaPo
• The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies Of 2015 In Music: FastCo
• An American financier got entangled in the Middle East’s biggest banking collapse. How did he emerge with a fortune? NewYorker
• Our gambling culture: The craving for immediate gratification has spread well beyond Wall Street. BlackRock chairman and CEO Laurence Fink argues such short-term thinking undermines social and economic health: McKinsey
• Scam means thousands were sold useless insurance by salesmen from Combined Insurance: TheAge
• CPIB rules of reporting may frighten away whistle-blowers: TODAY
• Q&A: Brent Schlender and Rick Tetzeli, ‘Becoming Steve Jobs’: Fortune
• Why We Give Great Advice To Others But Can’t Take it Ourselves: Forbes
• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from Startup L. Jackson About Venture Capital Investing and Startups: 25iq
• Robot spiders could build the next generation of objects in space: Quartz
• Scientists at MIT are designing bulletproof armor modeled on fish scales: Quartz
• Why you should only hire people who thrive in adversity; Perfection is not about avoiding problems, it’s about solving them, says Oomnitza CEO Arthur Lozinski: e27
• David Rosenberg reveals his most important investing lesson: A little history can go a long way: FP
• In terms of ‘prestige,’ Google is now a ‘tier two’ employer, says recent comp sci grad: BI
• Silicon Valley Star Search: Google spends twice as much on recruiting than the average company, even though it gets two million applicants a year. WSJ
• The 2 best-selling books on Amazon right now are ‘adult coloring books’: BI
• This may be the most ridiculous thing you’ll read in a Wall Street research note: BI
• If Algorithms Know All, How Much Should Humans Help?: NYT
• 5 things Elon Musk believed would change the future of humanity .when he graduated from university: BI
• Never forget the powerful effect of being remembered; The more someone can recall all small talk at previous meetings, the more you like and trust them: FT
• Turn the music off when you need to be your most creative; Naturally creative thinkers struggle to block out distractions: FT
• Heads of business need neuroscience; The prefrontal cortex of coaches, marketers, executives and a few charlatans is lighting up: FT
• How to Ace an Earnings Conference Call; Discussing financial results with investors on a company’s quarterly earnings conference call can be a nerve-racking ordeal, but some CFOs have found ways to minimize the risks of a slip-up. WSJ
• Starbucks to Pay Full Cost of Online Degree for Employees: WSJ
• Maybe Fund Data Should Include ‘Love Life’; Study finds that a hedge-fund manager’s returns suffer during marriage and divorce: WSJ
• It’s Healthy to Put a Good Spin on Your Life; How we construct personal narratives has a major impact on our mental well-being: WSJ

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 6 Apr (Mon) – How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process. The Two Mindsets and the Power of Believing That You Can Improve; Because your view of yourself can determine everything

Life

• How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process: Bhorowitz
• The Two Mindsets and the Power of Believing That You Can Improve; Because your view of yourself can determine everything: Time
• Antifragile: A Definition: Farnam
• The Search for Anti-Mentors; “a 21st century Stoic will be on the lookout for anti-mentors, people who are making important mistakes in how they are living. Such individuals can offer the Stoic valuable lessons on what not to do if he wishes to have a good life: Farnam
• Five Techniques to Improve Your Luck: Farnam
• How Criminals Built Capitalism: Bloomberg
• Jesus the great debt-eliminator: TheAge

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 5 Apr (Sun) – It’s Not the Inequality; It’s the Immobility; Income equality is about bridging the gap between rich and poor. Economic equality is about raising up the poor

Life

• It’s Not the Inequality; It’s the Immobility; Income equality is about bridging the gap between rich and poor. Economic equality is about raising up the poor: NYT
• How to Love: Legendary Zen Buddhist Teacher Thich Nhat Hanh on Mastering the Art of “Interbeing”: BP
• Ongoingness: Sarah Manguso on Time, Memory, Beginnings and Endings, and the True Measure of a Life Filled with Aliveness: BP
• The Illustrated Story of Persian Polymath Ibn Sina and How He Shaped the Course of Medicine; How a voraciously curious little boy became one of the world’s greatest healers. BP
• A Seizure of Happiness: Mary Oliver on Finding Magic in Life’s Unremarkable Moments: BP
• Susan Sontag on Storytelling, What It Means to Be a Moral Human Being, and Her Piercing Advice to Writers: BP
• The Real Reason College Tuition Costs So Much: NYT

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Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 4 Apr (Sat) – Here’s the letter Bill Gates sent Microsoft employees for its 40th anniversary; Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business; Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses

Life 

• Here’s the letter Bill Gates sent Microsoft employees for its 40th anniversary: BI
• Generation to Generation: How to Save the Family Business: HBR
• Leadership Lessons from Great Family Businesses: HBR
• Conflicts That Plague Family Businesses: HBR
• The author behind the new Steve Jobs book talks about what surprised him the most, how to gain Jobs’ trust, and more: BI
• The Easter story, the resurrection and the gospel truth; Why Christians can believe that Jesus rose from the dead: FT
• The Miracle of the Heavens; Within two short years of the telescope’s invention, Galileo had forever altered our place in the cosmos. WSJ
• 3 life lessons Neil deGrasse Tyson swears by: BI
• Captivating graphic shows why viruses can spread so quickly: BI
• The real Steve Jobs: Jobs 2.0; A new book attempts to reconstruct one of the world’s most celebrated inventors: Economist
• An Introvert’s Advice for Getting Ahead: WSJ
• Blackstone’s Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder Steve Schwarzman: What I’ve Learned: Blackstone
• Why shades of Asperger’s Syndrome are the secret to building a great tech company: WaPo
• Beyond Meerkat: What’s next for Israel’s entrepreneurs: FastCo
• Ultra-short fiction: Short, short stories are becoming more and more popular: Economist
• Review – ‘Daredevil’ Is One Of Marvels Greatest Achievements: Forbes
• How the Slave Trade Built America: NYT
• A Slippery Course of Study: Economics is a science that’s vulnerable to preconceptions.: Barron’s
• How Ron Kaplan Rescued Trex; Kaplan overhauled nearly every aspect of the deck-materials company, from finance to the factory floor. Barron’s
• Why did Napoleon lose Waterloo? ‘Because of wine,’ connoisseur says in his book: KT
• Michael Lewis: ‘I knew Flash Boys would be a bombshell’; Author of an exposé of the murky world of high-frequency trading on how his explosive book brought Wall Street to a standstill: Guardian
• From Bananarama to pharma: How Future Shop’s founder built an empire outside the spotlight: FP

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