R.E.S.-ilience in Value Creation 《竹经：经商经世离不得立根创新》
May 30, 2014 Leave a comment
One Of Silicon Valley’s Top App Designers Tells Us His Secrets To Success
LISA EADICICCO TECH MAY. 24, 2014, 11:13 PM
Apple’s App Store is filled with more than one million iPhone and iPad apps.
Chances are, even those who can’t put down their phone for more than five minutes haven’t sifted through a fraction of what the App Store has to offer. Read more of this post
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Subsidies Stoke China’s Domestic Car Makers
Local and Central Governments Provided $700 Million to Local Brands Last Year
Updated May 23, 2014 7:32 p.m. ET
SHANGHAI—China is ratcheting up subsidies to local auto makers worth more than $700 million a year, even as the industry contends with a glut of car factories and about 170 domestic manufacturers. Read more of this post
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THE 4 ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS TO GETTING YOUR POINT ACROSS
SHOWING EMPATHY IS ONE OF THE KEYS TO BUILDING GREAT RELATIONSHIPS AND BETTER COMMUNICATION. BUT HOW DO YOU GET PERSONAL WITHOUT OVERSTEPPING YOUR BOUNDS? HERE’S A GUIDE FOR STRIKING THE RIGHT BALANCE.
BY ROBERT KETEYIAN
If you want people to listen to you–really listen–it may be time to take up juggling.
Not literally, of course, but successful communication requires you to be good at a number of things, some of which may seem counter to the other. Read more of this post
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Why Nascar Is Putting RFID Sensors On Every Person In The Pit
A company called Zebra will allow teams to track every turn of the wrench, maximizing speed in the pit and preventing penalties.
To date, Nascar pit crews have relied on videotape and stopwatches to measure pit stops. But no more. Michael Waltrip Racing has announced a partnership with Zebra, makers of MotionWorks, a software package designed to bring RFID tracking technology to nearly every lug-nut on the track. Using technology developed to maximize industrial efficiency, Zebra hopes to lend its experience in manufacturing to the track. Read more of this post
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THE HOMEPAGE IS DEAD! LONG LIVE THE HOMEPAGE!
WHEN THE NEW YORK TIMES’S PLUMMETING HOMEPAGE TRAFFIC NUMBERS WERE REVEALED LAST WEEK, THE INTERNET AGAIN DECLARED THE HOMEPAGE DEAD. BUT THAT MAY NOT BE SO TRUE.
BY ELIZABETH FLOCK
When the founders of Upworthy were planning their site, they considered a question that a few years ago would have sounded suicidal: “Should we have no homepage?” They wondered whether staffers’ time would be better spent meeting readers where they were already hanging out–on social media, largely–than to hope readers would type a URL into their address bar. It was clear that most people simply didn’t find content through homepages as much anymore, and that is was only a matter of time before a media outlet didn’t even bother with one. Read more of this post
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Leo Buscaglia on Education, Industrialized Conformity, and How Stereotypes and Labels Limit Love
In the winter of 1969, shortly after a young woman he considered one of his brightest and most promising students committed suicide, Leo Buscaglia decided to deal with the flurry of confusion by starting an experimental class at the University of Southern California where he taught, exploring the most essential elements of existence – “life, living, sex, growth, responsibility, death, hope, the future.” The obvious common tangent, “the only subject which encompassed, and was at the core of all these concerns,” was love. So he simply called his course “Love Class.” While some of his fellow faculty members dismissed the subject as “irrelevant” and mocked its premise, the university agreed to let Buscaglia teach it on the condition that it be without course credit and he teach it free of salary in his spare time. Over the three years that followed, the course – not a scholarly or deeply philosophical study of love but “a sharing of some of the practical and vital ideas, feelings and observations” related to the human condition – earned Buscaglia the moniker “Dr. Love” and became one of the university’s most popular classes, drawing students of all ages and backgrounds. In 1972, Buscaglia published the most universal and important of those ideas in a slim and potent volume titled Love: What Life Is All About (public library). Read more of this post
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Van Morrison once characterized Bob Dylan (b. May 24, 1942) as the greatest living poet. And since poetry, per Muriel Rukeyser’s beautiful definition, is an art that relies on the “moving relation between individual consciousness and the world,” to glimpse Dylan’s poetic prowess is to grasp at once his singular consciousness and our broader experience of the world. That’s precisely what shines through in Paul Zollo’s 1991 interview with Dylan, found in Songwriters On Songwriting (public library) – that excellent and extensive treasure trove that gave us Pete Seeger on originality and also features conversations with such celebrated musicians as Suzanne Vega, Leonard Cohen, k.d. lang, David Byrne, Carole King, and Neil Young, whose insights on songwriting extend to the broader realm of creative work in a multitude of disciplines. Read more of this post
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At the 2014 HOW conference, Debbie Millman, host of the excellent interview show Design Matters and a remarkable mind, sat down with the prolific Seth Godin to discuss courage, anxiety, change, creative integrity, and why he got thrown out of Milton Glaser’s class. She used an unusual book of Godin’s as the springboard for their wide-ranging conversation: V is for Vulnerable: Life Outside the Comfort Zone (public library) – an alphabet book for grownups illustrated by Hugh MacLeod with a serious and rather urgent message about what it means and what it takes to dream, to live with joy, to find our purpose and do fulfilling work. Read more of this post
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7 reasons why the future of sleep could be wilder than your wildest dreams
By Dominic Basulto Updated: May 20 at 9:04 am
In a hyper-busy world, it seems like sleep is a luxury at times. How many times have you heard your cubicle mate or family member complain that there just aren’t enough hours in the day? But what if the key is not in optimizing your day-to-day routine or in trying to squeeze more hours out of a day, but rather, in minimizing – or at least optimizing – your sleep time? Read more of this post
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Promising the good times: An overwhelming election victory promises to reshape Indian politics
May 24th 2014 | DELHI | From the print edition
INDIA brims with colourful politicians, but none has quite the sense of political theatre of Narendra Modi of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He swept into Varanasi, India’s most ancient city, on May 17th pledging to clean the Ganges, its holiest and filthiest river. Three days later, in Delhi, BJP parliamentarians chanted and roared unanimous support for him, and he broke down in tears in mid-speech. After that he called on India’s president, Pranab Mukherjee, who agreed to swear him in as India’s 14th prime minister on May 26th. Read more of this post
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Computer Chips and Dip
By Kevin Maney / May 15, 2014 1:51 PM EDT
In 1969, Honeywell tried to sell a Kitchen Computer, which was about as practical as a home nuclear reactor. It cost $10,600, weighed 100 pounds and came, the ad said, “complete with a two-week programming course” for Donna Reed–esque housewives who would then be able to punch its buttons and read recipe combinations off a teletype machine. Read more of this post
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YouTube resists independent music streaming ultimatum despite talks
Saturday, May 24, 2014
AFP
LONDON–The independent music trade organization on Friday said YouTube had refused to withdraw threats over the Silicon Valley giant’s plans to launch a music streaming service, despite 24 hours of negotiations. Read more of this post
May 29, 2014 Leave a comment
Harvey Norman co-founder Ian Norman dies
May 29, 2014 – 6:22PM
Eli Greenblat
Ian Norman, who teamed up with Gerry Harvey in 1982 to create the Harvey Norman retail chain that carries his name, has died. He was aged 75. Read more of this post
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May 26, 2014 / Summer 2014 / Issue 75
Deals That Transform Companies
How to shift your business model with M&A integration.
by Gregg Nahass
As capital remains cheap and competition increases, more and more corporate finance strategists are willing to take on transformational deals. Unlike absorption deals, in which companies acquire businesses that complement their existing operations, transformational deals in-volve acquiring new markets, channels, products, or processes in a way that requires significant operational integration. In fact, successful integration is key to realizing the potential value of these deals. Read more of this post
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Frank Lowy’s Westfield threat makes corporate history
May 29, 2014 – 6:07PM
Lowy blow as Westfield defers restructure vote
The final vote for Westfield’s restructure has been deferred after proxy votes fell just shy of the 75 per cent needed, in a blow to the Lowy family’s plans to restructure the department store giant. Read more of this post
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India’s top 10 food retailers accumulate $2.2 billion losses in 2013-14: Crisil
Wed, May 28 2014
MUMBAI (Reuters) – India’s top 10 food retailers are estimated to have accumulated losses worth $2.20 billion in the fiscal year ended March 2014, as they scaled up operations and refined their business models, according to a report by ratings agency Crisil. Read more of this post
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BlackRock CEO says leveraged ETFs could ‘blow up’ whole industry
Wed, May 28 2014
(Reuters) – BlackRock Inc (BLK.N: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) Chief Executive Officer Larry Fink said on Wednesday that leveraged exchange-traded funds contain structural problems that could “blow up” the whole industry one day. Read more of this post
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New cremation rule in China shakes old traditions
Thursday, May 29, 2014 – 10:33
China Daily/Asia News Network
Authorities in Anqing, Anhui province, say there was no direct relationship between the alleged suicides of several elderly rural residents and the coming burial reforms that require corpses to be cremated. Read more of this post
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Intel readies 3D-printed robots for handy consumers
Wed, May 28 2014
By Noel Randewich and Alexei Oreskovic
RANCHO PALOS VERDE California (Reuters) – Intel Corp introduced a walking, talking robot on Wednesday made from 3D-printed parts that will be available to consumers later this year, if they are willing to assemble it with a kit that costs around $1,600. Read more of this post
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Taiwan’s Acer launches cloud computing drive in shift from PC reliance
1:49am EDT
By Michael Gold
TAIPEI (Reuters) – Taiwan’s Acer Inc detailed its long-touted push into cloud computing on Thursday, as the struggling computer maker responds to a shrinking PC market by pitting itself against cloud leaders Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc. Read more of this post
May 29, 2014 Leave a comment
Entrepreneurs to venture capitalists: We’re looking for 5 traits
May 23, 2014 3:30 PM
Ryan Caldbeck, CircleUp
I’ve met with dozens and dozens of VC investors over the years, both formally and informally. Some passed on my company. Others we passed on. I’ve also had hundreds of conversations with other entrepreneurs about their experiences with venture investors. These opportunities have given me a good understanding as to what makes a great (and not-so-great) venture capitalist. I also worked in private equity for years before starting CircleUp, and this experience has given me the added perspective of having sat on both sides of the table. Read more of this post
May 29, 2014 Leave a comment
A Dozen Things I’ve Learned About Marketing, Distribution and Sales
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1. “Most businesses actually get zero distribution channels to work. Poor distribution—not product—is the number one cause of failure.” (Peter Thiel) Legions of businesses fail every day because the people involved in the company do not know how to market, distribute and sell their goods and services. The right training can help a person understand that while potential customers don’t like salespeople, they do like to buy products and services. Knowing how to present a situation as an opportunity to buy and not an unpleasant experience with a salesperson requires skill. While a lot of this post is about sales, physical distribution systems should not be forgotten. There are companies like McDonalds which owe their success more to their distribution systems than anything else. Great distribution systems can be a substantial part of a company’s moat, as is the case with Starbucks, Amazon and Costco. Read more of this post
May 29, 2014 Leave a comment
Shareholders gagged by ASX rules
May 19, 2014
John Addis
Change needed: The ASX should require a vote on ‘company transforming’ initiatives, says John Addis. Photo: Bloomberg
Exhorting shareholders to think like owners of a business is one of the great tenets of value investing. And, by and large, it’s a good rule of thumb. The problems start when management, which should represent owners’ interests, go native. Read more of this post
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Barbarians gather at the gate as foreign investors eye Penfolds
May 24, 2014
With a takeover battle looming at Treasury Wine, Eli Greenblat looks at what structure is best suited to owning wine assets.
May 29, 2014 Leave a comment
The music world may have found itself a new big villain: YouTube
BY DAVID HOLMES
ON MAY 23, 2014
Congratulations, Spotify and Pandora: You may no longer be musicians’ most hated tech companies.
Last Summer, the anti-Pandora rallying cry was at an all-time high. The Verge’s Greg Sandoval dubbed Pandora “music’s big villain.” Cracker’s David Lowery caused a major stir by penning the blog post, “My Song Got Played On Pandora 1 Million Times and All I Got Was $16.89.” And Pink Floyd wrote an editorial in USA Today accusing the streaming music service of “tricking artists” into signing a petition that would cut their already-miniscule royalty payments. Read more of this post
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China Taxi Apps Call off the Subsidy Program, Orders Drop Drastically
by Scully Wan – May 23, 2014
China’s most popular taxi calling apps Didi and Kuaidi have announced officially on May 16th and 17th respectively, that they will stop the payment subsidies program for passengers. However, they will keep subsidizing taxi drivers. Read more of this post
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Tencent has a Plan for the Internet of Cars with the Newly Acquired Stake in NavInfo
by Tracey Xiang – May 23, 2014
State-owned China Survey has been authorized to sell 11.8% stake in mapping company NavInfo to Tencent for RMB1.173 billion ($189). Now Tencent is the second largest shareholder in the company. Read more of this post
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Updated : 2014-05-23 19:03
Gitlis explains origin of Israeli musical prowess
By Choi Hyun-soo
Israeli violinist maestro Ivry Gitlis saidFriday that the turbulence of Jewishhistory has helped produce many ofhis compatriot musical virtuosos. Read more of this post
May 28, 2014 Leave a comment
YURIKO KOIKE
Yuriko Koike, Japan’s former defense minister and national security adviser, was Chairwoman of Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party’s General Council and currently is a member of the National Diet.
MAY 23, 2014
Tipping Points to Asia’s Future
TOKYO – A week, it is said, is a long time in politics. But events in Asia over the past week may define the region for decades to come. Read more of this post
May 28, 2014 Leave a comment
Bunny boilers: Sichuan devours 42m kilos of rabbit a year
Staff Reporter
2014-05-22
People in Sichuan have a penchant for rabbit meat, consuming 42 million kilograms a year, or an average of two rabbits a person, according to the WCC Daily. Read more of this post
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