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The Road to Success: An Interview With Bill Gates and Warren Buffett
Inc Magazine - By Justin Bariso
According tothe most recent Forbes billionaires list, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are the first and third richest persons in the world, with a combined net worth of approximately $152 billion. Masters
How friendship became a tool of the powerful
The Guardian - William Davies
Imagine walking into a coffee shop, ordering a cappuccino, and then, to your surprise, being informed that it has already been paid for. Where did this unexpected gift come from? It transpires that it
Warren Buffett Turns 85: What He Wants in a Successor
TheStreet - Tim Mullaney
NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- There will never be another Warren Buffett. But there will eventually be another chairman and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway …
Wall Street owns our cities: The secret pension travesty threatening American workers
Salon
Private equity firms are raking in cash from municipal governments, and SEC officials are finally taking notice David Sirota April 26, 2015 1:00pm (UTC) California’s report said $440 million. New Jersey’s
Winston Churchill
12 Motivational Quotes That Aren't for the Weak-Willed
Inc Magazine - By Matt Ehrlichman
Sometimes we need someone to give us the hard truth--a dose of pure, distilled honesty--to shake up normal patterns and give us fresh perspective. Here is a collection of quotes that have the same effect
Employment
The Gamification of a Successful Sales Culture
Inc Magazine - By Dave Kerpen
We've seen it time and time again: high-stress sales teams whose members ruthlessly stab each other in the back just to get ahead. Even though the company's revenue is technically the end goal, individual
Amazon Web Services
Amazon's true brilliance shone this week in a tale of three clouds
Business Insider - Matt Rosoff
This was earnings week in the tech industry, but the one report everybody was waiting for came out on Thursday. That's when Amazon broke out detailed financial results from Amazon Web Services, its cloud
Forget Buffett the investor. Follow Buffett the manager
Fortune - Roger Lowenstein
Warren Buffett is regarded as the best investor of our time; arguably, his management record is just as singular. He took over as head of Berkshire …
Profit
Why You Need to Eliminate All of Your Company's Managers
Inc Magazine - By Chuck Blakeman
Managers are the core problem in business People don't leave companies. They leave managers--it's their number one reason to leave. The U.S. Department of Labor says the average tenure of an employee now
MBA
12 Books From Which to Build a DIY MBA for the 2020 Leader
Inc Magazine - By James Kerr
I have been teaching graduate-level MBA courses since 1987. My classes focus on strategic planning and alignment. I've witnessed many changes in MBA programs over the years and believe that a self-taught
Bill Gates
Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read These 6 Books This Year
Inc Magazine - By Jessica Stillman
You might know Bill Gates as a hugely successful entrepreneur, the billionaire founder of Microsoft, or even, in his latest incarnation, a dynamic philanthropist, but in his quieter, less public moments
Startups
15 of the fastest growing startups in the world still flying under the radar
Business Insider - Julie Bort
But we wondered: Who are the fastest-growing startups in the world that serve businesses, that we should be hearing about next (i.e. enterprise startups)? That's a loaded question, we know. It all depends
IRS Should Crack Down on Private Equity's Abusive Tax Alchemy
HuffPost - Eileen Appelbaum
As Warren Buffett famously observed, "...while most Americans struggle to make ends meet, we mega-rich continue to get our extraordinary tax breaks." He was referring to the fact that capital gains earned
Joel Greenblatt on Value Investing
valuewalk.com
I recently re-read Joel Greenblatt’s The Little Book That Beats The Market to prepare for a presentation to Jacob’s Fork Middle School on investing …
You Could Eat Fast Food After A Workout To Build Muscle
Popular Science - By Alexandra Ossola
No need for fancy supplements Whether you’re training for a marathon or pumping iron like Arnold, intense physical activity depletes your muscles’ primary source of energy, glycogen. There’s a whole industry
How this leading PE fund navigates India's infra maze
moneycontrol.com
Even as there is much optimism about how the new government is pulling out all stops to boost the country’s creaking infrastructure, there is one …
Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks
NPR - Cory Turner
To survive, we humans need to be able to do a handful of things: breathe, of course. And drink and eat. Those are obvious. We're going to focus now on a less obvious — but no less vital — human function:
$60 billion for mining private equity a myth |
mining.com - Frik Els | Mar. 26, 2015, 2:20 PM |
All sorts of numbers have been bandied about regarding size of private equity funds accumulated for investment in the mining sector. Whether it's at …
Bill Gates
Bill Gates recommends you read this specific part of Warren Buffett's letter
Business Insider - Myles Udland
In a tweet on Tuesday morning, Gates highlighted what he thought was the most important section of Buffett's latest letter to shareholders, the 50th edition of the widely circulated missive. And Gates
Why Warren Buffett’s investors should be very worried
thecrux.com
From Porter Stansberry in The Stansberry Digest: Fair warning, gentle reader… today’s Friday Digest is, in all likelihood, a waste of your time. …
Richard Branson's Virgin Money employees get bonus windfall as profits rocket 127%
Business Insider - Lianna Brinded
And it plans to share the wealth with its employees. In the upstart lender's 2014 results statement, Virgin Money said the record performance would lead to all eligible employees' receiving another bonus
Berkshire
Warren Buffett's Two Tips on Building Successful Businesses - Pass Them Along
Forbes - Laura Rittenhouse
CEO Warren Buffett’s recipe for business and life success is revealed in Berkshire Hathaway’s 2014 annual report released last weekend. It’s simple: Culture + Leadership + Trust = Wealth This formula how
Latin America
China's big chess move against the U.S.: Latin America
CNN Business - by Patrick Gillespie
China is making friends right under America's nose. Latin America is China's latest business buddy. Chinese banks increased investments in Latin America by 71% last year, and the country plans to double
Goldman Sachs
GOLDMAN: Here's how millennials will completely change the economy
Business Insider - Julia La Roche
Because of factors such as lower unemployment rates and student loan debt, millennials have deferred major life events like getting married, having kids and buying a home, Goldman Sachs Global Investment
Success
39 Incredibly Simple Life Hacks of Highly Successful People
Inc Magazine - By Peter Economy
"When asked to describe significant regrets in their lives, more than 8 out of 10 people focused on actions they did not take rather than actions they did. In other words, they focused on things they to
Clocking off: Japan calls time on long-hours work culture
The Guardian - Justin McCurry in Tokyo
Photograph: Bloomberg via Getty Images New employees sing the company song at a firm in Tokyo in 2013. 276 http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/2/19/1424348983496/8feb7217-383e-4fc9-8602-a516c2139b9d-460x276.jpeg
Workload
4 Simple Strategies for Leading an Overwhelmed Team
Inc Magazine - By Jo Miller
This story first appared on The Muse, a web destination with exciting job opportunities and expert career advice. "Help!" That was the subject line of an email I received recently from Lisa, the marketing
The Skills Gap: America's Young Workers Are Lagging Behind
The Atlantic - Mikhail Zinshteyn
New findings suggest that U.S. millennials are far less competent than their peers in Europe and Asia. Young American workers today are more educated than ever before, but the nation’s largest generation

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The Road to Success: An Interview With Bill Gates and Warren Buffett

How friendship became a tool of the powerful

Warren Buffett Turns 85: What He Wants in a Successor

Wall Street owns our cities: The secret pension travesty threatening American workers

12 Motivational Quotes That Aren't for the Weak-Willed

The Gamification of a Successful Sales Culture

Amazon's true brilliance shone this week in a tale of three clouds

Forget Buffett the investor. Follow Buffett the manager

Why You Need to Eliminate All of Your Company's Managers

12 Books From Which to Build a DIY MBA for the 2020 Leader

Bill Gates Thinks You Should Read These 6 Books This Year

15 of the fastest growing startups in the world still flying under the radar

IRS Should Crack Down on Private Equity's Abusive Tax Alchemy

Joel Greenblatt on Value Investing

You Could Eat Fast Food After A Workout To Build Muscle

How this leading PE fund navigates India's infra maze

Why Babies Love (And Learn From) Magic Tricks

$60 billion for mining private equity a myth |

Bill Gates recommends you read this specific part of Warren Buffett's letter

Why Warren Buffett’s investors should be very worried

Richard Branson's Virgin Money employees get bonus windfall as profits rocket 127%

Warren Buffett's Two Tips on Building Successful Businesses - Pass Them Along

China's big chess move against the U.S.: Latin America

GOLDMAN: Here's how millennials will completely change the economy

39 Incredibly Simple Life Hacks of Highly Successful People

Clocking off: Japan calls time on long-hours work culture

4 Simple Strategies for Leading an Overwhelmed Team

The Skills Gap: America's Young Workers Are Lagging Behind