How low can you go? This whale is the champion of deep diving

How low can you go? This whale is the champion of deep diving

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By Will Dunham

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – If there were a gold medal for cetacean diving, it undoubtedly would go to the Cuvier’s beaked whale. Read more of this post

How Effective Is a Number-crunching Approach to Managing People?

How Effective Is a Number-crunching Approach to Managing People?

Mar 21, 2014

Human resource professionals have begun to use sophisticated data analysis for all sorts of people-related issues ranging from recruitment and performance evaluation to promotion and compensation. People analytics, as this approach is called, is making waves because it is said to eliminate biases that exist in human judgment. Cade Massey, practice professor of operations and information management at Wharton, works at the intersection of psychology and economics and has focused on this approach. His expertise is judgment under uncertainty, looking at optimism, overconfidence and learning. Massey’s research is based on both laboratory experiments and archival studies of real-world behavior, such as the draft picks of professional football teams and the investment decisions of employees holding stock options. Read more of this post

Why ‘Incomplete’ Products Increase Consumption

Why ‘Incomplete’ Products Increase Consumption

Mar 20, 2014

Barbara E. Kahn, professor of marketing and director of the Jay .H. Baker Retailing Center, is the chair of the Retail and Consumer Goods Summit, a conference that Knowledge@Wharton is organizing in collaboration with the Baker Retailing Center on April 28 and 29 in New York City. Her research interests include consumer choice, variety seeking, product assortments, brand management and retailing. Read more of this post

Building the Next Pixar

BUILDING THE NEXT PIXAR

Some of Pixar’s most illustrious alums, steeped for decades in Pixar’s potent creative culture, reveal how they apply the company’s philosophies of success to their own ventures–and you can, too. Read more of this post

Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired

Newly unsealed documents show Steve Jobs’ brutal response after getting a Google employee fired

BY MARK AMES 
ON MARCH 25, 2014

In early March, 2007, as Google was expanding fast and furiously, one of its recruiters from the “Google.com Engineering” group made a career-ending mistake: She cold-contacted an Apple engineer by email, violating the secret and illegal non-solicitation compact that her boss, Eric Schmidt, had agreed with Apple’s Steve Jobs. Read more of this post

Quicken Loans’ billion-dollar gamble pays off

Quicken Loans’ billion-dollar gamble pays off

Mar. 25, 2014   |  

Quicken and Warren Buffett are offering a Quicken Loans Billion Dollar Bracket with Yahoo Sports for this year’s NCAA perfect bracket. / Quicken Read more of this post

The Wolves of Wall Street; Jordan Belfort was partly right: people who go into finance should not be too clever

ROBERT SKIDELSKY

Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and a fellow of the British Academy in history and economics, is a member of the British House of Lords. The author of a three-volume biography of John Maynard Keynes, he began his political career in the Labour party, became the Conservative Party’s spokesman for Treasury affairs in the House of Lords, and was eventually forced out of the Conservative Party for his opposition to NATO’s intervention in Kosovo in 1999. Read more of this post

Buy a Warren Buffett Fathead for $29.99; Proceeds will go to charity

Buy a Warren Buffett Fathead for $29.99

Proceeds will go to charity

Author: By Chris Isidore

Published On: Mar 25 2014 06:23:35 AM PDT   Updated On: Mar 25 2014 07:50:38 AM PDT

NEW YORK (CNNMoney) – Investors have been known to pay $1 million for the chance to pick Warren Buffett’s brain over lunch. Now they can get his entire head for only $29.99. Read more of this post

Keep It Short: In writing, brevity works not only as a function of space on a page, but the time that an audience is willing to spend with you

MARCH 24, 2014, 9:00 PM  122 Comments

Keep It Short

By DANNY HEITMAN

In my first daily newspaper job some 25 years ago, I learned a few lessons about brevity that I’m still using today. Back then, among other editorial chores, I contributed to a weekly feature called “Books in Brief.” Each review could be no longer than 200 words — less than a fourth the length of a usual article. Imagine a slender column of type slightly taller than your middle finger, and you’ll get some idea of the word limit. Read more of this post

React to the Reality, Not the Image of It; Sometimes things are much better than they appear, but the truth is we don’t know what’s going on with other people’s finances

React to the Reality, Not the Image of It

By CARL RICHARDSMARCH 25, 2014

Years ago, a friend came home with a new, top-of-the-line road bike. My first thought: How can he afford that? It seemed like such a big purchase based on what I thought I knew. We lived in the same neighborhood, were close to the same age and both had young families. His life looked a lot like mine — at least I thought it did. Read more of this post

Creating Product Addicts

Creating Product Addicts

by Ian Gordon | Mar 26, 2014

Corporate attempts to boost customer loyalty, or move customers to go to great lengths to repeat purchase behaviour, can be seen as creating a form of addiction without a pejorative connotation

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Economics and the foundations of Artificial Intelligence

Economics and the foundations of Artificial Intelligence

by Colin Lewis , March 19, 2014

For the longest time, people thought that humans could not run a mile in less than four minutes. Then, in 1954, Sir Roger Bannisterbeat that perception, and shortly thereafter, once he showed it was possible, many other runners were able to achieve this also. Read more of this post

This Is Google CEO Larry Page’s Grand Vision For Changing The World

This Is Google CEO Larry Page’s Grand Vision For Changing The World

MEGAN ROSE DICKEY TECH  MAR. 25, 2014, 12:08 AM

Google CEO Larry Page is one of the smartest, most powerful people in the world. As CEO of Google, his job is to imagine the future. This month, Page gave a talk at TED to discuss how Google plans to change the world. It’s a great insight into where Google is going.  Read more of this post

Chart Shows The Most Successful Startups Ever Founded By People Who Apparently Skipped Their Midlife Crisis

Chart Shows The Most Successful Startups Ever Founded By People Who Apparently Skipped Their Midlife Crisis

ROB WILE STRATEGY  MAR. 25, 2014, 4:48 AM

Venture capitalist Fred Wilson has posted a nifty chart showing six mega-companies that were founded by folks who evidently sailed through any notion of a mid-life crisis. Read more of this post

Likeable Leadership: A Collection of 65+ Inspirational Stories on Marketing, Your Career, Social Media & More

Likeable Leadership: A Collection of 65+ Inspirational Stories on Marketing, Your Career, Social Media & More [Kindle Edition]

Dave Kerpen (Author), Jeffrey Hayzlett (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 20, 2013

“When it comes to cutting through the clutter and making his voice heard, Dave has always been a thought leader and a truly creative promoter. His new book is an invaluable tool for any business leader who hopes to navigate today’s fast changing social media landscape. Moreover, Dave’s cogent advice and instructive (and humorous!) anecdotes are as likeable as he is!”  Read more of this post

The 16 Differences Between Successful People and Unsuccessful People

The Differences Between Successful People and Unsuccessful People

March 19, 2014

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Here Is The Letter Sir Winston Churchill Wrote When He Resigned As Prime Minister

Here Is The Letter Sir Winston Churchill Wrote When He Resigned As Prime Minister

JULIE ZEVELOFF THE LIFE  MAR. 25, 2014, 9:55 PM

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Game Theory, Pharmacies, And Why CVS Stopped Selling Cigarettes

Game Theory, Pharmacies, And Why CVS Stopped Selling Cigarettes

ESTIMIZE FINANCE  MAR. 26, 2014, 1:31 AM

To sell smokes or not to tell smokes, that is the $2 billion question. In early February CVS Caremark (CVS) became the first national drugstore chain to voluntarily give up selling cigarettes and other tobacco products by October 1st. CVS was the first brick to fall due to mounting pressure coming from 28 state and territory attorney generals. These AGs have not yet threatened any legal action, but the case certainly brings the NYC sugary drinks ban to mind. Read more of this post

25 Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World

25 Fascinating Charts Of Negotiation Styles Around The World

GUS LUBIN STRATEGY  MAR. 26, 2014, 1:47 AM

Language is only the most obvious part of the global communication gap. Different cultures also have distinct approaches to communication during meetings and negotiations, as described by British linguist Richard D. Lewis, whose best-selling book, “When Cultures Collide,” charts these as well as leadership styles and cultural identities. Read more of this post

Arianna Huffington Explains Why You Need More Than Money And Power To Be Successful; In 2007, she found herself in a pool of blood in her home office. She had collapsed from exhaustion, cutting her eye and breaking her cheekbone in the process

Arianna Huffington Explains Why You Need More Than Money And Power To Be Successful

DRAKE BAER STRATEGY  MAR. 26, 2014, 2:22 AM

Arianna Huffington has met almost every measure of worldly success: She launched and sold the Huffington Post, pocketing $21 million. She lives in a luxury loft in Soho, one of New York’s wealthiest neighborhoods, and is a well-known media personality, followed by millions on Facebook and Twitter. Read more of this post

Marc Andreessen Calls Warren Buffett An Old White Man Crapping On Technology He Doesn’t Understand

Marc Andreessen Calls Warren Buffett An Old White Man Crapping On Technology He Doesn’t Understand

ROB WILE MARKETS  MAR. 26, 2014, 4:05 AM

Berkshire Hathaway Inc’s Warren Buffett (C) walks during a visit of TaeguTec in Daegu, about 300 km (189 miles) southeast of Seoul, October 25, 2007. Read more of this post

Regulators will get the blame for the stupidity of crowds; Naivety is as much of a problem as criminality, particularly when investors lack cynicism

March 25, 2014 3:10 pm

Regulators will get the blame for the stupidity of crowds

By John Kay

Naivety is as much of a problem as criminality, particularly when investors lack cynicism

Crowdfunding has wide appeal. For libertarians on the political right it demonstrates the power of individual action, free from the constraints of institutions and regulation. For geeks it is a demonstration of the vitality of the internet. Much of the public welcomes the sidelining of traditional financial institutions. Read more of this post

Tea, sex and one last cavalry charge: The centenary of the first world war has not gone unnoticed in India

March 25, 2014 6:17 pm

Tea, sex and one last cavalry charge

By Victor Mallet in New Delhi

The centenary of the first world war has not gone unnoticed in India

India is full of surprises, and I have rarely been more surprised than to be invited, in the midst of a very 21st-century election campaign, to the British high commissioner’s residence to learn about centenary commemorations for the Indians who fought in the first world war. Read more of this post

Supreme leader of the neo-nerds: Animation entrepreneur Asaph Fipke holds forth on boys, toys and TV shows

March 25, 2014 4:52 pm

Supreme leader of the neo-nerds

By Sally Davies

Asaph Fipke has a dirty secret. His business card describes him as the Supreme Commander of Nerd Corps, an animation studio and distributor in Vancouver. But the cartoon producer did not have a television in the house as a child. Read more of this post

Why Likability Matters More at Work

Why Likability Matters More at Work

Likability Is More Important—and Harder to Pull Off—on Video

SUE SHELLENBARGER

March 25, 2014 7:03 p.m. ET

Growing use of videoconferencing and social media at work are making “likability” a more important career skill, recent research shows. Sue Shellenbarger and “The Likeability Factor” author Tim Sanders have tips on Lunch Break. Photo: Getty Images. Read more of this post

Entrepreneurship: Don’t do it for the money

Entrepreneurship: Don’t do it for the money

Tuesday, Mar 25, 2014

Jessica Cheam

The Straits Times

SINGAPORE – A recent commentary on entrepreneurship by Nominated MP Laurence Lien for The Straits Times caught my attention.

He had called for a new mindset in Singapore to nurture entrepreneurship. Several observations he made struck a chord, including how we should change the way we nurture our young to challenge conventions and how we could do more to provide both physical and social support for entrepreneurs. Read more of this post

Abstract art: the nexus between science and creativity

Abstract art: the nexus between science and creativity

March 26, 2014 – 8:18AM

Simon Cropper

There’s a two-storey warehouse wall in Melbourne’s western suburbs where man-made concrete uniformity has been transformed. On this enormous vertical surface is a complex, apparently natural scene that has no clear structure but nonetheless seems alive with meaning. Read more of this post

What Successful Leaders’ To-Do Lists Look Like

WHAT SUCCESSFUL LEADERS’ TO-DO LISTS LOOK LIKE

HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED ABOUT THE TO-DO LISTS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESSPEOPLE? HERE, WE GIVE YOU A SNEAK PEEK AT THREE AND THEIR TIPS FOR MAKING THEIR LISTS WORK.

BY GWEN MORAN

If you’re a list-maker, behold the to-do list and productivity secrets of these business superstars. Read more of this post

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time Hardcover

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play When No One Has the Time Hardcover

by Brigid Schulte  (Author)

Can working parents in America—or anywhere—ever find true leisure time?
According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is “that place in which we realize our humanity.” If that’s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we’re doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In Overwhelmed, Schulte, a staff writer for The Washington Post, asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but “contaminated time”? Read more of this post

What It’s Really Like To Name Products For A Living; Professional namer Nancy Friedman reveals what it’s like naming everything from chairs to medical devices (Hint: not easy!)

What It’s Really Like To Name Products For A Living

PROFESSIONAL NAMER NANCY FRIEDMAN REVEALS WHAT IT’S LIKE NAMING EVERYTHING FROM CHAIRS TO MEDICAL DEVICES. (HINT: NOT EASY!)

It must be the best job in the world, to name things. “That car is a Jaguar! Now give me my money!”Nancy Friedman has spent the last 20 years as a self-proclaimed “chief wordworker.” She has named products for global juggernauts like Medtronic (the “Sentrant” sheath) and Steelcase (the “Amia” chair). She has turned down multiple opportunities to name cigarettes. Read more of this post