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.
The Big Idea: 21st-Century Talent Spotting
Claudio Fernández-Aráoz, Harvard Business Review, June 2014
As business becomes more volatile and complex, and the global market for top professionals gets tighter, this article’s author believes that organizations and their leaders must transition to what he thinks of as a new era of talent spotting—one in which our evaluations of one another are based not on brawn, brains, experience, or competencies, but on potential. […read more]
This CEO is out for blood
Roger Parloff, Fortune, June 12, 2014
Elizabeth Holmes founded her revolutionary blood diagnostics company, Theranos, when she was 19. It’s now worth more than $9 billion, and poised to change health care. […read more]
As Data Overflows Online, Researchers Grapple With Ethics
Vindu Goel, The New York Times, August 12, 2014
Professor Jeffrey T. Hancock, co-author of the Facebook study in which the social network quietly manipulated the news feeds of nearly 700,000 people to learn how the changes affected their emotions, and other university and corporate researchers are grappling with how to create ethical guidelines for research studies of Internet users’ personal data collected by Facebook, Google, Amazon and a host of start-ups. […read more]
The Human Importance of the Monkey Selfie
Stuart N. Brotman, Brookings, August 12, 2014
Last week’s slow summer news was filled with monkeys and robots, breaking the usual pattern of having sharks grab the headlines each August. The two stories in combination actually raise an interesting and potentially important matter regarding technology development and copyright law. […read more]
Four Ways We Sabotage Innovation Daily
Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder, Chief Learning Officer, August 11, 2014
Most leaders want their organizations to be more innovative. Yet, they often undermine that innovativeness by running them as command and control entities rather than incubators for creativity and ideas. This article shares four ways in which innovation is regularly sabotaged and how learning leaders can stop this from happening. […read more]
Iraq: Understanding the ISIS Offensive Against the Kurds
Kenneth M. Pollack, Brookings, August 11, 2014
Without a doubt, one of the biggest and most disturbing surprises of the past week was the seeming ease with which ISIS fighters defeated Kurdish Peshmerga forces, seizing several towns in northern Iraq, the Mosul Dam, and even threatening to advance on Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG). All of this has conveyed an impression of Kurdish weakness very much contrary to the accepted wisdom that the Peshmerga were more than capable of defending their lands. […read more]
The Youngest Are Hungriest
Seema Jayachandran and Rohini Pande, The New York Times, August 8, 2014
A recent study has shown that in India, where childhood malnutrition causes millions to be permanently affected by poor health and cognitive deficits, the preference for firstborn sons means they are getting a disproportionate amount of their families’ resources, leaving the second-born and subsequent children deprived of the resources they need. […read more]
“Malala’s Wisdom: 14 Quotes From This Inspiring 17-Year-Old Leader”
Malala Yousafzai, a role model for girls, women, boys and men, shared her inspirational story at the Hudson Union Society in August. “We must help girls fight all the obstacles in their lives, and stand up and speak bravely and overcome the fear they have in their hearts,” she said. — Forbes Reputation Matters […read more]
Companies with Benefits
James Surowiecki, The New Yorker, August 4, 2014
There are now more than a thousand B corps in the U.S. and their rise is a reminder that the idea that corporations should be only lean, mean, profit-maximizing machines isn’t dictated by the inherent nature of capitalism, let alone by human nature. As individuals, we try to make our work not just profitable but also meaningful. […read more]
Grandma’s Experiences Leave a Mark on Your Genes
Dan Hurley, Discover, June 11, 2013
Your ancestors’ lousy childhoods or excellent adventures might change your personality, bequeathing anxiety or resilience by altering the epigenetic expressions of genes in the brain. […read more]