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.
Survival Guide for Leaders in the Digital Age
Deborah C. Hopkins, LinkedIn, June 20, 2014
This article’s author shares her thoughts on what’s happening in business, across industries, and gives ten tips on how leaders should respond. […read more]
Instagram: Big, bad, and ready to make money
Jessi Hempel, Fortune, July 15, 2014
The photo-sharing social media service has a fast-growing, hyper-engaged user base that advertisers love. Now it just needs to figure out how to make money for corporate parent Facebook. […read more]
Words are dead. Here’s what will replace them.
Jessi Hempel, Fortune, June 4, 2014
Pictures are doing most of the talking these days—changing culture, technology, business as we know it. This article, the first in a series, explores the visionaries who are making it happen. […read more]
Gatwick passengers warned to keep essentials in hand luggage
Nick Collins, Edward Malnick, Oliver Duggan and Tom Brooks-Pollock, The Telegraph, July 31, 2014
Passengers at Gatwick have been advised to pack essential items in their hand luggage this weekend amid fears of further chaos caused by a shortage of baggage handlers. […read more]
Bouncing Back, Economy Grew 4% for Quarter
Dionne Searcey, The New York Times, July 30, 2014
The United States economy rebounded strongly in the second quarter of the year, shaking off the negative effects of an unusually harsh winter and stirring hopes that it might finally be establishing a solid enough footing to put the lingering effects of the recession squarely in the past. […read more]
Case Study: Should a Female Director “Tone It Down”?
Boris Groysberg and Deborah Bell, HBR Blog Network, July 29, 2014
This article’s authors present a case study which asks the question whether a female director should “tone it down and back off” in order for a male board member to remain on the board. […read more]
Donald Sterling Loses Bid to Block Sale of Clippers
Billy Witz, The New York Times, July 28, 2014
A judge issued a sweeping victory Monday for Rochelle Sterling, ruling that she had the authority to sell the Los Angeles Clippers to businessman Steve Ballmer and stating that she had properly followed the directions of the family trust in removing Donald Sterling, her estranged husband, as co-trustee and that the sale of the team could be completed without waiting for what would be a lengthy appeal. […read more]
Step Inside The Invisible World That Runs The Internet
Adele Peters, Fast Company, June 24, 2014
A new film, Internet Machine, takes us behind the scenes in one of the biggest data centers on the planet in an attempt to make it less mysterious. […read more]
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This Is What Tech’s Ugly Gender Problem Really Looks Like
Issie Lapowsky, WIRED, July 28, 2014
Research shows that gender discrimination of varying degrees—both conscious and subconscious—is alive and well among tech’s overwhelmingly white, male investors. According to an Internet Week panel, the tech world is a place that is still very much stuck in the past when it comes to attitudes involving gender. […read more]
At Front Lines, Bearing Witness in Real Time
David Carr, The New York Times, July 27, 2014
Geopolitics and the ubiquity of social media have made the world a smaller, seemingly gorier place. On our phones, news alerts full of body counts bubble into our inbox, Facebook feeds are populated by appeals for help or action on behalf of victims, while Twitter boils with up-to-the-second reporting, some by professionals and some by citizens, from scenes of disaster and chaos. With the advent of social media, we don’t have to witness war in the rearview mirror, the war comes to us in real time. […read more]