Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away. Via My Modern Met. Welcome to a new edition of Linkness!
If you only read one thing.
- They’re watching you at work: What happens when Big Data meets human resources? The emerging practice of “people analytics” is already transforming how employers hire, fire, and promote | The Atlantic
Management.
- Fight like you’re right, listen like you’re wrong and other keys to great management | First Round
- Healthcare.gov and the gulf between planning and reality | Clay Shirky
Innovation.
- “Why the world’s best photo startup is going out of business.” Everpix was great. This is how it died. | The Verge
Data and technology.
- “In Silicon Valley, it may not be 1999 yet, but that fateful year — a moment when no one thought there was any risk to the wildest idea — can be seen on the horizon, drifting closer.” | NYT
- How is big data transforming your 80/20 analytics? | HBR
- “Away from the publicity glare of the Valley tech blogs, every web company should have some not-so-bullshit metrics that guide the business and provide an indication of its health… At Medium, our number is Total Time Reading, or TTR.” | Medium Data Lab
- The hype around “big data” is doing a disservice to the industry because it focuses too many of us on technology and data volume and not what is important, says Todd Cullen, Chief Data Officer at Ogilvy & Mather | DMA blog
- Facebook is for grandparents: What we need in a next-gen social network | The Next Web
Insights.
- The more we hate it, the more it agrees with us. How advertising turned anti-consumerism into a secret weapon | Aeon
- The future of banking and what it means to marketers | Marketing Blogged
- Singaporeans are looking to the past, placing urgency on preserving culture and heritage | WSJ
- To go shopping is glorious – how brands can succeed on the Chinese shelf | Marketing Mag
Creativity.
- Making and taking: striking a balance between consumption and creation | Kill Your Darlings
STW Group news.
- The Dark Ages of corporate behaviour is over and Australians are demanding more from companies, according to the results of the first ever Australian Business Purpose Study 2013 by STW company Shift (pdf). It’s not business. It’s personal.
- Sho+ Ogilvy PR Australia’s calendar of creativity.
- The rise of the experience economy | The White Agency
- The internet of sporty things | The White Agency
- Good vs. Fast vs. Cheap | The White Agency
- Karen Valdares, Account Manager at Bullseye and originally hailing from Brazil, has co-written an e-book guide to the upcoming FIFA World Cup in Brazil called Gringo2Gringo.
OMG | cool | wow.
- British Airways digital billboards know when a plane is flying overhead.
- The experiment that led to the phrase “Thinking Outside the Box.”
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