2. Must Reads

Must Reads

“When turmoil rules, go in.” — Lao Tzu

There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?

Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.

They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.

We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.

There is so much to read, so much to know, so many sources to follow. And the volume of news and information just keeps growing exponentially. How to keep up? Even more, how to rediscover the serendipity of learning something new and interesting for its own sake?

Here, for your enjoyment and interest, are the articles Temin and Company considers “must reads.” They are primarily on the topics of reputation and crisis management, the media, leadership and strategy, perception and psychology, self-presentation, science, girls and women, organizational behavior and other articles of interest.

They are listed below with the most recent articles first, and to the side, by category.

We hope you enjoy them and would appreciate your comments. And whenever you have any favorite articles for us to add, please let us know so that we might include them for other readers to enjoy.

4 Arrested in Schemes Said to Be Tied to JPMorgan Chase Breach

Matthew Goldstein, Dealbook, The New York Times, July 21, 2015

A huge computer attack against JPMorgan Chase last summer may have been more of an attempt to fuel an ongoing pump-and-dump stock scheme rather than an effort to steal financial data from the nation’s biggest bank. Federal authorities on Tuesday announced the arrest of four men in Florida and Israel in connection with a series of fraudulent investment schemes involving penny stocks and Bitcoin that spanned the globe, from Florida to New York to Israel to Cyprus and Russia. But authorities also suspect that some of the men arrested, along with a fifth man charged but still at large, had a hand in last summer’s hacking at JPMorgan that compromised the contact information for 83 million of the bank’s customers, according to people briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity. […read more]

Being a good journalist means learning how to keep a secret

Joel Simon, Columbia Journalism Review, July 20, 2015

THE ROLE OF JOURNALISTS is to make information public. The irony is that in order to do so, they need to keep lots of things secrets. They do that in all sorts of ways. Sometimes journalists promise anonymity in order to get officials to divulge what they’re not supposed to reveal. Sometimes they cloak the exchange of sensitive documents. Sometimes they conceal the nature of their stories so that governments can’t censor their work preemptively. […read more]

John McCain: Donald Trump owes POW families an apology

Tom LoBianco, CNN, July 20, 2015

In his first response directly addressing Donald Trump’s comments on his war record, Sen. John McCain said Monday that the real estate mogul should not apologize to him, but should instead apologize to the veterans captured in war and their families. Trump disparaged McCain and other prisoners of war Saturday, in a rapid back-and-forth with Republican pollster Frank Luntz. […read more]

NASA’s ‘GoreSat’ Mission Just Released Its First Image of Earth

Eric Roston, BloombergBusiness, July 20, 2015

NASA’s 10-year, 3-billion-mile mission to Pluto electrified the world last week when it dispatched images of a tiny planet that’s dynamic in ways even experts never anticipated. So while 3 billion miles is the current bar to ignite mission-mania in the public eye, a million-mile jaunt still isn’t too shabby. […read more]

5 Things About Lockheed Martin Buying Sikorsky

Doug Cameron, The Wall Street Journal, July 20, 2015

Lockheed Martin Corp. agreed to pay $9 billion in cash to buy Sikorsky, adding the Pentagon’s largest helicopter builder to a portfolio that already includes the F-35 combat jet, much of the nation’s missile defense system alongside ships, intelligence and training systems. This article shares five things you need to know. […read more]

PayPal is now worth more than Netflix, eBay, and Twitter

Eugene Kim, Business Insider, July 20, 2015

PayPal started trading as an independent company on Monday after its spin-off from eBay last week — and it’s already worth more than some of the biggest tech companies. According to a chart put together by Statista, as of early Monday, PayPal had a market cap of $49.5 billion, which is higher than that of Netflix, eBay, and Twitter. That means the market is giving PayPal a much higher value than its former parent company, eBay — the company that previously acquired PayPal for $1.5 billion back in 2002 — before splitting it out due to pressure from activist investors like Carl Icahn. […read more]

ISIS Leader Takes Steps to Ensure Group’s Survival

Eric Schmitt and Ben Hubbard, The New York Times, July 20, 2015

The Islamic State’s reclusive leader has empowered his inner circle of deputies as well as regional commanders in Syria and Iraq with wide-ranging authority, a plan to ensure that if he or other top figures are killed, the organization will quickly adapt and continue fighting, American and Iraqi intelligence officials say. […read more]