5 Secrets To Finding Time For Work, Love, And Play From “Overwhelmed” Author Brigid Schulte; It’s impossible to be creative, or in fact do much of anything at work, when you feel pulled in a thousand directions

5 SECRETS TO FINDING TIME FOR WORK, LOVE, AND PLAY FROM “OVERWHELMED” AUTHOR BRIGID SCHULTE

IT’S IMPOSSIBLE TO BE CREATIVE, OR IN FACT DO MUCH OF ANYTHING AT WORK, WHEN YOU FEEL PULLED IN A THOUSAND DIRECTIONS. OVERWHELMED AUTHOR BRIGID SCHULTE TALKS ABOUT HOW TO RESTRUCTURE YOUR DAYS SO YOU DON’T ALWAYS FEEL SO DAMNED BUSY. Read more of this post

The Secrets Of A Nasty Gal: Web phenom Sophia Amoruso created a $100 million business despite a misspent youth and zero business training. Now she wants to help other single-minded women make the most of their potential

THE SECRETS OF A NASTY GAL

WEB PHENOM SOPHIA AMORUSO CREATED A $100 MILLION BUSINESS DESPITE A MISSPENT YOUTH AND ZERO BUSINESS TRAINING. NOW SHE WANTS TO HELP OTHER SINGLE-MINDED WOMEN MAKE THE MOST OF THEIR POTENTIAL.

BY EVIE NAGY

“The first thing I ever sold online was stolen,” admits Sophia Amoruso, who in seven years went from having a string of dead-end jobs to being CEO of Nasty Gal, the online clothing retailer with an impossibly cool rep and $100 million–plus in revenue. Read more of this post

The New Science of Email Subject Lines; Dan Moskovitz used simple flattery to grab the notice of Amazon’s Jeff Bezos with the subject line, “Thank You! You’re Awesome.”

Mar 24, 2014

The New Science of Email Subject Lines

ADAM AURIEMMA

In the cutthroat world of corporate email, where attention spans are measured in fractions of a second, a well-crafted subject line can make all the difference. Just don’t try too hard. Read more of this post

Seeking Autism’s Biochemical Roots

Seeking Autism’s Biochemical Roots

MARCH 24, 2014

Claudia Dreifus

The biochemist Ricardo E. Dolmetsch has pioneered a major shift in autism research, largely putting aside behavioral questions to focus on cell biology and biochemistry. Read more of this post

Ripples From the Big Bang: The telescopic discovery of gravitational waves believed to have been left from the origin of the universe will reverberate for years to come

Ripples From the Big Bang

MARCH 24, 2014

Dennis Overbye

CAMBRIDGE, MASS. — When scientists jubilantly announced last week that a telescope at the South Pole had detected ripples in space from the very beginning of time, the reverberations went far beyond the potential validation of astronomers’ most cherished model of the Big Bang. Read more of this post

Is the World More Depressed?

Is the World More Depressed?

MARCH 24, 2014

T. M. Luhrmann

I’VE been in and out of India for years, but on a recent visit to Chennai, in the state of Tamil Nadu, it seemed that suicide and depression had become part of the social conversation in a way that was once taboo. Read more of this post

The first law of website design is that the owners of a company usually hate their new site within 24 months

MARCH 24, 2014, 7:00 AM  2 Comments

Why I Redesigned My Website

By JOSH PATRICK

Are you getting the most out of your business?

As soon as you finish your new website’s design, it’s time to start figuring out how to change it. At least, that’s how it has always been for me. But this time around I actually had a good reason. Read more of this post

What the Wolves of Wall Street can teach us about risk; Simplifying the financial system is the only durable way to minimise risk

What the Wolves of Wall Street can teach us about risk

Simplifying the financial system is the only durable way to minimise risk

“What a commentary on the state of twentieth-century capitalism,” mused “motivational speaker” Jordan Belfort as he looked back on his life of fraud, sex, and drugs. As head of the brokerage firm Stratton Oakmont, he fleeced investors of hundreds of millions of dollars in the early 1990’s. I saw Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street and was sufficiently intrigued to read Belfort’s memoir, on which the screenplay is based. I learned quite a lot. Read more of this post

The real story behind smarter working in a small business; Hannah Godfrey interviews Simon Duffy, the co-founder of men’s skincare brand Bulldog, to see how a small business can effectively implement a smarter working strategy

The real story behind smarter working in a small business

Hannah Godfrey interviews Simon Duffy, the co-founder of men’s skincare brand Bulldog, to see how a small business can effectively implement a smarter working strategy.

Hannah Godfrey

theguardian.com, Monday 24 March 2014 10.19 GMT

There is a real art to making a small business work, according to Simon Duffy, co-founder of the men’s skincare brand Bulldog. All entrepreneurs have heard about the importance of the great idea, they know that a successful entrepreneur must have an unshakable confidence is his or her project and value hard grind. All these things are important, but, Duffy believes, if you don’t also have the humility to see that you are not the best person to do everything, then your project is likely to flounder. Read more of this post

The Heretic’s Guide to Getting More Done: Daydream as often as you want; Spend less time on key decisions; Be more “mindful” than focused

The Heretic’s Guide to Getting More Done

by David Brendel  |   1:00 PM March 24, 2014

Are you working endlessly but not accomplishing all you want? Mystified that continuous attention to work is not resulting in satisfactory progress toward your goals? So focused on work that you’re not thinking about or doing much else? If so, you may not be giving your brain the benefit of adequate downtime. A recent article in Scientific American, Why Your Brain Needs More Downtime, summarizes the evidence that “mental breaks increase productivity, replenish attention, solidify memories, and encourage creativity.” Read more of this post

What do you think are the ideas that have had the biggest, positive impact on people’s lives over the last 30 or 40 years? Author of “The Upside of Down,” Charles Kenny, talks to Ezra Klein about how the world is getting much, much better

Author of “The Upside of Down,” Charles Kenny, talks to Ezra Klein about how the world is getting much, much better.

Ezra Klein: What have we made progress in that people don’t always recognize? Give me the optimistic view of the world over the last 50 years.

Charles: It’s almost easier to tell you what isn’t getting better. Life expectancy has gone up worldwide. Child mortality has shot down. The number of kids who die before the age of five has halved worldwide in the last 20 years. The number of people dying of violence — either on the battlefield or from domestic violence or from murder — is dropping pretty much worldwide. Last year there wasn’t a single declared interstate war. The number of countries that are democratic has been increasing. The number of countries that really respect their civil political rights more generally going up. If you look at beer consumption it’s been going up worldwide. Read more of this post

How A 34-Year-Old With No Experience In Food Science Convinced Investors To Give Him $30 Million To Make Eggs Obsolete

How A 34-Year-Old With No Experience In Food Science Convinced Investors To Give Him $30 Million To Make Eggs Obsolete

JAY YAROW TECH  MAR. 25, 2014, 8:35 AM

Hampton Creek, a startup that’s creating plant-based alternatives to eggs, announced $23 million in funding last month.

That brings the total funding to $30 million from investors. Asia’s richest man, Li-Ka Shing, is an investor. As is the world’s richest man, Bill Gates. It also has investment from Yahoo founder Jerry Yang, Khosla Ventures, and the Founders Fund.  Read more of this post

7 Books Every Leader Should Read, According To A Harvard Business School Professor

7 Books Every Leader Should Read, According To A Harvard Business School Professor

FARNAM STREET STRATEGY  MAR. 24, 2014, 10:40 PM

Max Bazerman, a business psychology professor at Harvard Business School and the author of the best book on general decision making that I’ve ever read, “Judgment in Managerial Decision Making,” came out with 7 book recommendations.

I hadn’t heard of two of these, which I picked up. Read more of this post

The Art and Science of Negotiation; Raiffa provides insight into how to think systematically in a world where you cannot count on the other side to do so

The Art and Science of Negotiation [Paperback]

Howard Raiffa (Author)

Book Description

Release date: April 14, 1985 | ISBN-10: 067404813X | ISBN-13: 978-0674048133 | Edition: Reprint

Whether you are selling a house, closing a business deal, settling a divorce, arbitrating a labor dispute, or trying to hammer out an international treaty, Howard Raiffa’s new book will measurably improve your negotiating skills. Read more of this post

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them“

Moral Tribes: Emotion, Reason, and the Gap Between Us and Them [Hardcover]

Joshua Greene (Author)

Book Description

Release date: October 31, 2013 | ISBN-10: 1594202605 | ISBN-13: 978-1594202605

The Boston Globe
“Surprising and remarkable… Toggling between big ideas, technical details, and his personal intellectual journey, Greene writes a thesis suitable to both airplane reading and PhD seminars.” Read more of this post

Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton

Eyewitness To Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton Paperback

by David Gergen (Author)

Leadership: The Ultimate Guide
Few Americans have observed the ups and downs of presidential leadership more closely over the past thirty years — from Nixon to Clinton and Watergate to Whitewater — than David Gergen. A White House adviser to four presidents, both Republican and Democrat, he offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of their struggles to exercise power and draws from them key lessons for leaders of the future. Taking us inside the administrations of Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and Clinton, Gergen reflects on everything from why Nixon was the best global strategist among recent presidents to how the Bill-and-Hillary seesaw rocked the White House during Clinton’s tenure as president.  Read more of this post

The Psychology of Quantitative Analysis

SUNDAY, MARCH 23, 2014

The Psychology of Quantitative Analysis

Early this morning I began my weekly routine of model building.

As a thought experiment, imagine taking every technical indicator out there and conducting a big factor analysis.  The factor analysis would reduce the number of indicators to a smaller cluster of factors that are relatively uncorrelated.   Read more of this post

Buffett the Market Timer? Part 1: The Partnership Years

Saturday, March 22, 2014

Buffett the Market Timer? Part 1: The Partnership Years

OK, so I know this thing about not timing the market leads to a lot of debate.  One thing you always hear when talking about this is that Warren Buffett himself is a market-timer.  Well, yes, he has made comments on the market over the years; in 1999/2000 warning of a high market cap to GDP ratio, and again in 2008 telling people it’s “time to buy America”.  He also shut down his partnership in the late 1960’s, just in time to avoid a nasty bear market. Read more of this post

How to Be An Innovator: Your Personal Roadmap

How to Be An Innovator: Your Personal Roadmap

by Sidneyeve Matrix, Teaching mass comm, digital media, and marketing at Queen’s University onMar 05, 2014

How to be more innovative? Some advice from the experts on how to design your personal innovation roadmap — in three steps. Slides from a keynote presentation prepared for Queen’s School of Business Innovation Summit, 2014.

http://www.slideshare.net/SidneyEve/how-to-be-an-innovator-your-personal-roadmap

Leadership is about making others feel safe: Simon Sinek at TED2014

Leadership is about making others feel safe: Simon Sinek at TED2014

Posted by: Kate Torgovnick May
March 21, 2014 at 10:00 am PDT

Simon Sinek begins his talk with the story of former U.S. Army Captain William D. Swenson. In 2009, Swenson was on an operation in Afghanistan, near the Pakistan border, when his column was ambushed. It was bad; many were injured. During this ambush, Swenson called for air support and ran through enemy fire to rescue the wounded. The moment was recorded by a GoPro camera on one of the medic’s helmets. With two comrades, Swenson brought in a severely wounded sergeant to a helicopter for medical evacuation. “You see Captain Swenson bend over and give him a kiss, before he turns around to rescue more,” says Sinek. Read more of this post

How Zara’s founder Amancio Ortega has quietly built a US$10-billion ‘all cash’ real estate empire

How Zara’s founder Amancio Ortega has quietly built a US$10-billion ‘all cash’ real estate empire

Jesse Drucker, Bloomberg News | March 21, 2014 | Last Updated: Mar 21 5:49 PM ET
Amancio Ortega Gaona, already the world’s fourth-richest person based on the success of his Zara fashion retail stores, has quietly amassed a real estate empire worth as much as US$10-billion and is emerging as a formidable competitor for prime properties from London to Beverly Hills. Read more of this post

Nazi past overshadows genius behind Porsche, VW Beetle; “Porsche had no choice. Hitler chose him and if Porsche had refused, he would have ended up in a concentration camp and never achieved anything.”

Nazi past overshadows genius behind Porsche, VW Beetle
Monday, March 24, 2014
By Jan Flemr, AFP

VRATISLAVICE , Czech Republic–The name Porsche has long made sports car enthusiasts swoon, but the Nazi past of the famous brand’s founder has left his Czech hometown sorely divided over his legacy. Read more of this post

If bosses can’t see you, they think you are not working

Fiona Smith Columnist

If bosses can’t see you, they think you are not working

Published 24 March 2014 11:25, Updated 24 March 2014 13:10

Ask any visiting business identity about Australia’s reputation as a place to work and one of the first things they will mention – usually in admiring tones – is the way we have got our work-life balance sorted. Read more of this post

How to make the toughest start-up transition: from projects to processes

How to make the toughest start-up transition: from projects to processes

Published 24 March 2014 11:41, Updated 24 March 2014 13:08

Derek Lidow

“Why would I change my leadership style when it’s helped us establish a real beachhead in our market?”

These are the famous last words of many entrepreneurs. Failing to realise that critical transition points in the growth of an enterprise require leaders to shift emphasis, they blindly stick with what has worked so far. Ultimately this failure to understand the demands of change can lead to the failure of the company itself. Read more of this post

How telco entrepreneur Michael Malone made up his mind to quit iiNet; iiNet founder Michael Malone says he faces a “long, dark road”

How telco entrepreneur Michael Malone made up his mind to quit iiNet

Published 24 March 2014 10:09, Updated 24 March 2014 10:10

David Ramli

iiNet founder Michael Malone says he faces a “long, dark road”. Photo: Bohdan Warchomij

In the crowded corner of a fashionable Sydney watering hole, between moonshine martinis and 1930’s jazz, iiNet’s founder and chief executive was characteristically frank in his review of bosses that leave their post. Read more of this post

At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language

At Airports, a Misplaced Faith in Body Language

By JOHN TIERNEYMARCH 23, 2014

Like the rest of us, airport security screeners like to think they can read body language. The Transportation Security Administration has spent some $1 billion training thousands of “behavior detection officers” to look for facial expressions and other nonverbal clues that would identify terrorists. Read more of this post

When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher

When the Scientist Is Also a Philosopher

MARCH 22, 2014

Economic View

By N. GREGORY MANKIW

Do you want to know a dirty little secret of economists who give policy advice? When we do so, we are often speaking not just as economic scientists, but also as political philosophers. Our recommendations are based not only on our understanding of how the world works, but also on our judgments about what makes a good society. Read more of this post

L’Oreal was created 105 years ago, in 1909 in Paris by Eugene Schueller. Its first business was selling coloration directly to Parisian hairdressers. That is why the hairdressers and the hair industry were at the heart of L’Oreal

Posted : 2014-03-23 13:46

Updated : 2014-03-23 19:19

L’Oreal to boost hairdressing as growth engine

By Sebastien Emond
L’Oreal was created 105 years ago, in 1909 in Paris by Eugene Schueller. Its first business was selling coloration directly to Parisian hairdressers. That is why, from the beginning, the hairdressers and the hair industry were at the heart of L’Oreal. Read more of this post

‘Culture creation’ often easier than it looks; the concept of “bunkazukuri,” or “culture creation”

‘Culture creation’ often easier than it looks

BY ERIC JOHNSTON

STAFF WRITER

MAR 23, 2014

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Being laughed at can help your Japanese evolve

Being laughed at can help your Japanese evolve

BY DANIEL MORALES

SPECIAL TO THE JAPAN TIMES

MAR 23, 2014

Students of Japanese are often Japanese-as-a-second-language (JSL) cavemen. JSL cavemen live a mostly pleasant existence of blissful ignorance, using a devolved form of the language as best they can. However, JSL cavemen are not total ignoramuses — their thick hide can be penetrated by awkward social encounters, notably by laughter. Read more of this post