Management.
- From human nature to human resources: an academic lays out the ‘Renewed Darwinian Theory of Human Behaviour’ | Harvard Magazine
- Being human is good business | A List Apart
- NPR tries something new: A day to let managers step away and developers play | Nieman Journalism Lab
- Reframe your strategy to avoid hidden biases | Harvard Business Review
- How evidence-based management pays off | NYTimes.com
Innovation.
- Amazon’s new convenience store delivery lockers | PSFK
- Walmart seeks boost in search and e-commerce with @walmartlabs | Advertising Age
- Instagram and Intuit founders discuss lean startups, pivots, and what makes a product successful | TechCrunch
- Dreams of mobile payments lead telco to try banking | GigaOm
- Amazon’s future is so much bigger than a tablet | Wired.com
Data.
- 3 steps to measuring social media ROI | Marketing Magazine
Technology.
- “Silicon Valley is littered with companies whose fortunes are tied to what you might call “OPP”- other people’s platforms.” | Fast Company
- Most product teams don’t know if they are making their product better or worse; that’s why customers feel a twinge of fear every time they have to update or upgrade | TechCrunch
- Four points for technology in politics from Obama’s jobs plan | techPresident
- Australia has the second highest level of smartphone penetration in the world |Official Google Australia Blog
- 7 tech predictions for the future from a Google Creative Director | TNW
Insights.
- A guide to swaying majority opinion | The Atlantic
- Why keeping up with RSS is poisonous to productivity, sanity | Ars Technica
- Unicef: children stuck in ’materialistic trap’ | The Guardian
- The “Kreayshawn quandary.” Is digital killing the luxury brand? | Adweek
- Photo-sharing communities springing up around themes, places | JWT Intelligence
- The German solution: saving books by keeping them expensive | The Millions
- What our future might look like if we don’t trash the planet | Fast Company
- Outrage as Huffington Post seeks teenage bloggers to not pay | Advertising Age
- Death to banner ads! Social media campaigns that worked without them | Fast Company
Creativity.
- How Tumblr created a design culture with no design team | Co. Design
- 5 timeless insights on fear and the creative process | Brain Pickings
- A vivid story can put us in a more altruistic mode, a study shows | Neuromarketing
Trends.
- Retail renaissance: how customers love shopping in the “real world” more than ever | trendwatching.com
- You look at me like you’ve never seen a neo-hipster before | McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
- Place no faith in articles: ‘The,’ ‘an’ and ‘a’ are banned in iPod age; trying to ‘turn a brand into a religion’ | WSJ.com
