Catching Up On Readings: A Chinese Approach to Management

This HBR article says we should look to China for lessons in responsiveness, improvisation, flexibility, and speed, which are the current imperatives in management. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.
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Catching Up On Readings: 19th Century Trick for Best-Sellers

This Wired feature looks at how fan fiction writers are using the nineteenth century trick of serialization to create best-sellers. It could be a new trend in fiction is written and read in the modern world. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Value of a College Degree

This Business Insider feature, through some interesting graphs, highlights the value of a college degree in the modern economy. People with degrees have not experienced real wages, in contrast to everyone else. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Entrepreneur Dysfunctions in Cartoons: Who Makes More Money?

Jim and Sarah’s conversation above is a very common conversation among entrepreneurs.

Next time, you encounter an entrepreneur who brags about how much money he has raised, ask a follow-on question: How much ownership do you have left in the company?
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Is Crowdfunding a Train Wreck Waiting to Happen?

By guest author John Mullins

Crowdfunding is all the rage today, with more than 50,000 projects funded, and more than $1 billion raised to date on Kickstarter alone. It takes many forms, of course, but the form I worry about is equity-based crowdfunding that is intended to start an ongoing entrepreneurial business, rather than to fund a one-off creative project. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Practice or Talent?

This Washington Post feature discusses the merits of a latest study that raises questions about the age old saying, “Practice makes perfect”. The paper published in the Psychological Science journal assesses the relative contribution of practice and talent to success. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Cool Vendors 2014

Gartner in a special report has identified cool vendors in key technology areas for 2014. The research firm says that these cool vendors, while not exhaustive, will support digitalization and the notion of “Big Change.” For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links. >>>

Catching Up On Readings: Tools for Entrepreneurs

A recent article on Entrepreneur.com lists 12 (mostly free) web tools for entrepreneurs. The top one listed is 1M/1M, which it says is a truly interesting source for “starter uppers” to talk about branding, positioning, financing or anything else entrepreneurial. For this week’s posts, click on the paragraph links.  >>>