Our weekly wrap up of the top business and creativity reads around the web! This week’s image is by Shel Silverstein, via Rachel Hills.
Management.
- How positive people have bigger, better ideas | BBH Labs
- Why a great individual is better than a good team | Harvard Business Review
- How to say you’re sorry: A refresher course | Salon.com
- The value in vulnerability: embracing new skills sometimes means saying “I don’t know” | Harvard Business Review
- Top ten ways CEOs must change to lead in the social business marketplace | Simon Mainwaring
- The impact of creative quality on business development success: can anyone “own” the “more creative” market position? | Win Without Pitching
- Good leaders acknowledge what can’t be done | Harvard Business Review
- The illusion of control | zen habits
Innovation.
- Four kinds of innovation time | Innovate on Purpose
- Does social media have a return on investment? | Fast Company
- Preparing for a world where customers learn to say no | Forbes
Technology.
- Getting from the internet what it knows about you | Richard Thaler, NYTimes.com
- Penguin Classics is doing for iPhone book browsing what Urbanspoon did for restaurant searching | Fast Company
Insights.
- How earned media boosts the branding effect of paid ads | eMarketer
- 7 ideas to help bloggers make more money from brands | Life. Then strategy
- Top companies spend millions on ads, but have no social media links or phone numbers for customers to use to take action | Advertising Age
- Internet dating: Sex, love, and loneliness on the Internet | The New Yorker
- The rise and inglorious fall of Myspace | BusinessWeek
- Is peep culture the new pop culture? | Creative Social
- Blogger beautiful? An examination of what it means to be beautiful and valuable in fashion blogging | Gala Darling
- Commentators are increasingly concerned about gold bubbles, Tech 2.0 bubbles and venture capital bubbles. Can we prevent them? | Wired.com
Creativity.
- Collecting vs. curating, and how the internet is muddying the line between the two | Frank Chimero
- Design is really business risk management | Futurelab
- Creative decisions drive technology and that technology is a design choice | Advertising Age
Trends.
- Why some dissatisfied users are shunning Facebook | CNN.com
- The ‘Don’t Be A Banker’ Scholarship | Mint Digital
