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November 25, 2013 Five Sources of Start-up Ideas By Daniel Gulati How successful entrepreneurs uncovered fresh and lucrative concepts.

Managing yourself Evaluate Your Emotional Agility by Susan David An interactive assessment will help you better understand your reactions. Hiring Hired by the Data, Fired by the Data by The Shortlist The term Big Data, admits writer Don Peck, "has quickly grown tiresome." But the power of analytics as a mechanism for making decisions about hiring and firing is still growing, and the "application of predictive analytics to people's careers … is enormously challenging, not to mention ethically Managing yourself Lean In — To a Balanced Life by Scott Behson Don't fall unthinkingly into a career that makes it hard to reach your other goals. Customers To Understand Consumer Data, Think Like an Anthropologist by Susan Fournier Numbers can give you answers, but numbers don't tell you what questions to ask. Microsoft Accelerating Change at Microsoft by John Kotter It's possible, but the challenges facing the new CEO are systemic. Risk management The CEO Who Led a Turnaround Wearing a Helmet by Robert I. Sutton A story of Paul Anderson of BHP Billiton, and the ripple effects of leadership. Decision making How John F. Kennedy Changed Decision Making for Us All by Morten T. Hansen Burned once by groupthink, Kennedy came up with a process to root it out. Retail Thieves Take Advantage and Deal Another Blow to JC Penney by The Daily Stat When Penney stopped requiring receipts for returned items, shoppers grabbed merchandise and immediately "returned" it at cash registers. Social enterprise If You Want to Change the World, Partner with China by Peggy Liu Here, big is bigger than you can imagine.

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