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.
Condi Rice on her friendship with Apple’s HR chief
Michal Lev-Ram, Fortune, September 26, 2014
Condoleezza Rice, the former U.S. Secretary of State, is staying mum on whether or not she’d seriously consider taking on the top job at the troubled National Football League. But she had plenty to say about Denise Young Smith, her long-time friend and the Apple exec recently profiled in Fortune’s Most Powerful Women issue. […read more]
Three Questions with the CEO of D-Wave
Tom Simonite, MIT Technology Review, September 26, 2014
The CEO of quantum computing startup D-Wave, Vern Brownell, says its machines are helping companies analyze Wall Street data and search for new cancer drugs. […read more]
Signaling Post-Snowden Era, New iPhone Locks Out N.S.A.
David E. Sanger and Brian X. Chen, The New York Times, September 26, 2014
The National Security Agency and the nation’s law enforcement agencies are concerned that Apple’s new iPhone 6 smartphone is the first of a post-Snowden generation of equipment that will disrupt their investigative abilities. The phone encrypts emails, photos and contacts based on a complex mathematical algorithm that uses a code created by, and unique to, the phone’s user — and that Apple says it will not possess. […read more]
For a New Way to Manage Risk, Look to the Past
Gretchen Gavett, “The Shortlist,” HBR Blog Network, September 26, 2014
This final edition of “The Shortlist” – which shares the articles HBR Blog Network’s editors have found to be important, controversial, useful, and sometimes downright entertaining – highlights five articles that offer guidance on how to manage risk: NPR’s “Ebola Battlers Can Learn from Venice’s Response to Black Death,” Knowledge@Wharton’s “When Fewer Choices Are Worth More,” The New Yorker’s “The Solace of Oblivion,” New York Times Magazine’s “Larry Ellison Bought an Island in Hawaii. Now What?” and Bloomberg View’s “Occupational Hazards of Working on Wall Street.” […read more]
The Psychology of Cryptomnesia: How We Unconsciously Plagiarize Existing Ideas
Maria Popova, Brain Pickings, September 26, 2014
This article’s author discusses the ideas presented in cognitive psychologist Ronald T. Kellogg’s out-of-print novel The Psychology of Writing which exampines how cryptomnesia – “the belief that a thought is novel when in fact it is a memory” – arises and why it is important. […read more]
In NFL Probe, Even FBI Chiefs Risk ‘Motivated Blindness’
Jeff Green, Bloomberg, September 24, 2014
It’s becoming a time-worn script. Company gets in trouble. Public gets upset. Company hires former head of three-letter agency or former prosecutor to get to the bottom of said trouble in thick report. Public forgives.
The National Football League’s decision to hire former FBI Director Robert Mueller to examine its handling of a player’s domestic violence case mimics companies such as General Motors Co. and BP Plc in hiring high-profile outsiders to blunt criticism by airing their dirty laundry. Demand for such investigations has spawned a multi-million business as 55 percent of companies last year said they had at least one internal investigation requiring the assistance of outside counsel, according to an April report on litigation trends by Norton Rose Fulbright.
The question is how impartial these investigation can really be — or, more broadly, how much truth do they want to find?
“It’s always a challenge when you’re trying to shine bright lights on what’s going on in dark rooms,” said Davia Temin, head of the New York-based crisis management firm Temin & Co. “The question always is, how far does the public blood-letting go?” […read more]
You Aren’t Imagining It: Email is Making You More Stressed Out
Lisa Evans, Fast Company, September 24, 2014
Of all of the things in your workday that could cause you to feel stressed, checking your email likely seems like the most benign. But a researcher at the University of California at Irving strapped heart-rate monitors to a team of U.S. army civilian employees and discovered that email was in fact a major cause of stress. After taking away their email for five days, stress levels, measured by heart-rate monitors, decreased. […read more]
Paul Taylor: Millennials are the Most Cautious Generation We’ve Ever Seen
Big Think, September 24, 2014
Paul Taylor, executive vice-president of special projects at the Pew Research Center and author of the book The Next America, noted that one of the key elements of the millennial generation’s persona is wariness. He theorized that they are the most cautious generation he’s ever seen due to the fact that they have watched a lot of people get burned over the past seven years. Their parents have fought foreclosures and debt. Divorce rates have led to a lot of broken homes. They have come of age during an era where the promise of success more resembles a fleeting chance. […read more]
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“In NFL Probe, Even FBI Chiefs Risk ‘Motivated Blindness’”
The National Football League’s decision to hire former FBI Director Robert Mueller to examine its handling of a player’s domestic violence case mimics companies such as General Motors Co. and BP Plc in hiring high-profile outsiders to blunt criticism by airing their dirty laundry. Corporations are caught between the dueling risks of doing nothing and facing criticism that they are tone-deaf to the public demand for information or having even worse offenses come to light that risk the financial future of the firm. “It’s always a challenge when you’re trying to shine bright lights on what’s going on in dark rooms,” said Davia Temin, head of the New York-based crisis management firm Temin & Co. “The question always is, how far does the public blood-letting go?” — Bloomberg […read more]
World must prepare for ‘Armageddon’-style cyber attack, warns US regulator
Katherine Rushton, The Telegraph, September 22, 2014
Benjamin Lawsky, superintendent of the New York State Department of Financial Services, says it is a “matter of time” before there is a systemic attack on the global financial system. […read more]