Must Reads
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.
NYSE Suspends Trading in All Securities
Sam Mamudi, BloombergBusiness, July 8, 2015
The New York Stock Exchange halted trading for 3 1/2 hours because of a computer malfunction, forcing traders to route orders elsewhere in a drama that also highlighted the resilience of U.S. market structure. […read more]
An Offline N.Y.S.E. Makes Barely a Ripple in a Day’s Trading
Michael J. de la Merced, Dealbook, The New York Times, July 8, 2015
Investors who wanted to buy and sell shares of companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange were still able to do so with ease on Wednesday. In years past, a shutdown of the N.Y.S.E. might have stopped Wall Street dead in its tracks, with a broad range of companies’ shares sitting frozen until all technical problems were unwound. But as the lengthy stoppage on Wednesday showed, the modern world of stock trading is much quicker, more complex and reliant on sophisticated computers. […read more]
Adversity: A path to vulnerability or resiliency? Depends on how much.
Anna Luerssen, Berkeley Science Review, August 3, 2011
This article’s author looks to a study conducted by Mark Seery, a professor at the State University of New York at Buffalo, et al to find out about the relationship between past experiences and whether one responds to current life adversity with vulnerability or resiliency and to answer the question as to who, if faced with a new crisis, will display the resilient response. […read more]
Kelly McGonigal: How to make stress your friend
Kelly McGonigal, Ted Talks, June 2013
Stress. It makes your heart pound, your breathing quicken and your forehead sweat. But while stress has been made into a public health enemy, new research suggests that stress may only be bad for you if you believe that to be the case. Psychologist Kelly McGonigal urges us to see stress as a positive, and introduces us to an unsung mechanism for stress reduction: reaching out to others. […read more]
The Story Behind Janis Joplin’s ‘Mercedes Benz’
Marc Myers, The Wall Street Journal, July 7, 2015
Janis Joplin’s “Mercedes Benz” was an accident. The song’s lyrics were written at a Port Chester, N.Y., bar in August 1970 during an impromptu poetry jam between Joplin and songwriter-friend Bob Neuwirth. The lyrics—a sardonic prayer for a sports car, a color TV and a night on the town—were inspired by the first line of a song written by San Francisco beat poet Michael McClure. […read more]
Why Bosses Who Show Vulnerability Are The Most Liked
James Richman, Fast Company, July 7, 2015
When you think of the word “vulnerable,” negative words, such as weak, wimpy, and exposed, likely come to mind. Vulnerability is the antithesis of strength, a very essential characteristic of an effective leader. A lot of researchers and psychologists are saying otherwise. Research has shown that vulnerability can, in fact, be good for you and your business. […read more]
Beijing Versus the Stock Market
BloombergView, July 6, 2015
China’s government says it wants to increase the role of market forces in the economy. In the past few weeks, it’s been frantically doing the opposite — responding to a collapse in stock prices with a battery of measures to halt the slide. The interventions brought a moment’s respite at the start of this week. Yet the sheer breadth of the authorities’ response underlines the contradiction in Chinese policy. Stock markets rise and fall: Why have a market at all, if you’re only willing to let prices go up? […read more]
Former Disney Chief Michael Eisner: A Woman Who Is Funny and Beautiful Is “Impossible to Find”
The Hollywood Reporter, July 3, 2015
“In the history of the motion-picture business, the number of beautiful, really beautiful women — a Lucille Ball — that are funny, is impossible to find.” That’s what former Disney CEO Michael Eisner told an audience Thursday at the Aspen Ideas Festival. […read more]
CEOs Create Narrative That Is Good for Business
Monica P. Hawkins, Chief Learning Officer, July 2, 2015
Have you noticed the level of visibility CEOs are attracting for issues other than quarterly earnings? One might say they are taking social responsibility to the next level. Or that this select but growing few are doing something far more compelling: creating a new narrative for CEO leadership. […read more]
Nicholas Winton, Rescuer of 669 Children From Holocaust, Dies at 106
Robert D. McFadden, The New York Times, July 1, 2015
Nicholas Winton, a Briton who said nothing for a half-century about his role in organizing the escape of 669 mostly Jewish children from Czechoslovakia on the eve of World War II, a righteous deed like those of Oskar Schindler and Raoul Wallenberg, died on Wednesday in Maidenhead, England. He was 106. […read more]