AWNM reader Ken Neisser of Los Angeles dipped into the Portfolio at the end of Chapter 5, read about mini-sagas, and produced this gem of his own: “She didn’t hear him leave. Linny glanced diffidently at her reflection in the water, but the image was a stranger to her. Where was he, damnit! Intense hunger […]
Today’s must-read is Suketu Mehta’s NY Times op-ed, “A Passage From India.” An excerpt: “There is a perverse hypocrisy about the whole jobs debate, especially in Europe. The colonial powers invaded countries like India and China, pillaged them of their treasures and commodities and made sure their industries weren’t allowed to develop, so they would
Boston Globe columnist Penelope Trunk examines what the Conceptual Age means for younger workers.
To celebrate Amazon.com’s 10th anniversary (and his status as the 10th best-selling author during that decade), Jim Collins has recorded an excellent audio essay about the true source of excellence and the crucial difference between being busy and being disciplined.
Business Week asked B-schoolers for summer reading recommendations. Here’s how they responded: “MBA professors and students have loads of suggestions, from Daniel H. Pink’s A Whole New Mind: Moving from the Information Age to the Conceptual Age (Riverhead, 2005) to the upcoming release of J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Scholastic, 2005), the
The frothy housing market has officially swelled into an irrationally exuberant bubble. Forget all those interest-only and skip-payments-when-you-want mortgages, which will inevitably lead to middle class families being being foreclosed on. Just consider this: Two-bedroom mobile homes in California are selling for a million bucks. Buyers don’t even own the land! (They rent it from
Glenn “Instapundit” Reynolds has a smart, provocative, (and not entirely positive) take on A Whole New Mind. Worth reading.
The MFA is the new MBA tour makes another stop this week — in Pasadena, Calfornia, home of the Art Center Collge of Design. Here are the details on our Thursday night book talk: WHEN: Thursday, June 30, 2005 at 7:30 p.m. WHERE: Art Center College of Design, Hillside Campus/Ahmanson Auditorium, 1700 Lida Street, Pasadena,
Who says outsourcing is only for large companies? “A growing number of mom-and-pop operations, outsourcing experts say, are braving a host of potential complications and turning to places like Sri Lanka, China, Mexico and Eastern Europe to make clothes, jewelry, trinkets and even software programs,” according to The New York Times. The high concept and
One of the most widely circulated articles on the Internet this week is this AP story on the dimming luster of programming jobs. “As tens of thousands of engineering jobs migrate to developing countries, many new entrants into the U.S. work force see info tech jobs as monotonous, uncreative and easily farmed out — the
