Description: Neurotics rejoice. If you can. Research suggests that the more anxious and withdrawn among us tend to gain respect over time at work, while more outwardly confident extroverts lose some of their initial esteem. To some degree, the research shows the value of creating low expectations, said the study’s lead author, Corinne Bendersky, an… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Organizational Behavior
After 100 Years, the Shaving Industry Is Finally being Disrupted
Description: The Gillette-Schick duopoly better watch out for Dollar Shave Club and Harry’s, which promise more convenience and less cost to do what men hate most in the morning. Don’t look now, bros but your morning routine is getting disrupted—in a good way. Source: TheDailyBeast.com Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/after-100-years-the-shaving-industry-is-finally-being-disrupted.html Questions for discussion: Describe… Read more »
Facebook Turns 10: The Mark Zuckerberg Interview
Description: Mark Zuckerberg doesn’t usually observe sentimental anniversaries. This year he’s confronted by three of them. On Feb. 4, Facebook (FB), the company he co-founded in a Harvard University dorm, turns 10 years old. The prodigy himself turns 30 in May. It’s also been a decade since his first date with Priscilla Chan, now his… Read more »
Big game, big deductions for businesses
Description: New York City will get a $550 million economic boost from next weekend’s Super Bowl and corporations will get big deductions for their lavish spending. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/24/big-game-big-spending-big-tax-breaks.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What are the benefits to corporations that send employees or clients to the Super Bowl?… Read more »
Rival says Uber played dirty
Description: On-demand taxi service Gett accuses Uber of ordering 100-plus cars and canceling them.CNNMoney investigates. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 24, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/technology/2014/01/24/t-uber-accused-dirty-tactics-gett-car-service-taxi.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: What do you make of this accusation against Uber? Do you think it might be initiated by employees and not sanctioned by Uber management? If so,… Read more »
How Imgur Became a Photo-Sharing Hit
Description: There is a website where cats and dogs rule the day, profanities are common, and clips from Lord of the Rings movies can be used to convey universal sentiments like the joy of revenge. All right, there are plenty of websites like that, but this one is more popular than those of the Weather… Read more »
The Elders of Organic Farming
Description: Among the sleek guests who meditate and do Downward Facing Dog here at the Esalen Institute, the farmers appeared to be out of place. They wore baggy jeans, suspenders and work boots and had long ago let their hair go gray. Source: NYTimes.com Date: Jan 25, 2014 Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/25/business/the-elders-of-organic-farming.html?ref=business Questions for discussion: Describe the… Read more »
The 30-Year-Old Macintosh and a Lost Conversation With Steve Jobs
Description: On a late-November day in 1983, Steven Levy, then a freelance journalist for Rolling Stone, got into a car outside 10460 Bandley Drive, in Cupertino, Calif. As the vehicle sped away from the white office building, Mr. Levy looked at the driver and said hello to Steven P. Jobs, then the young, spry co-founder of… Read more »
How Steve Jobs launched a revolution in home computing and founded an army of passionate devotees
Description: “I don’t know a single person who watches the Super Bowl,” said a worried Steve Jobs, then just 28 years old. The event he was referring to commanded a television audience of more than 80 million at the time, but Jobs’ nervousness at the prospect of Apple spending $1.6m (£1m) to secure two 60-second… Read more »
Café customers pay by the minute
Description: Customers of this London café can have as many drinks and snacks as they want as long as they make them and clean up by themselves. Source: CNNMoney.com – video report Date: Jan 15, 2014 Link: http://money.cnn.com/video/news/2014/01/15/n-london-cafe-charges-by-the-minute.cnnmoney/index.html Questions for Discussions: Why do you think this concept works? To what sort of customer do you… Read more »
