Weekend Reading
Writing worth reading - 13th/14th April 2024
Competent jerks have a shelf life in the office by Anjli Raval
“Their ability to succeed alone, when combined with excessive ambition, blinds them”, she adds. As they don’t question themselves, they don’t develop empathy skills as fast and are less self-aware. “If you’ve been a star and rarely failed, you probably haven’t done the work on yourself.…”
The ballad of Lars and Bruno by Cynthia O’Murchu and Robert Smith
“And yet, events had been set in motion that, within three years, would push H2O to the brink and destroy Crastes’s reputation. The punishment for his relationship with Windhorst would be record-breaking and long-lasting. Regulators continue to pore over what really happened. The scandal would leave the world of high finance struggling to comprehend why one of the finest fund managers of his generation ignored his closest confidants and bet on a man with a visible trail of wreckage behind him....”
Economic headwinds”? No, The Messenger’s flop is the result of one man’s blindness to his own bad ideas by JOSHUA BENTON
“Well, obviously not the result we were hoping for. Credit to the Niners — they played well. I think the key factor was their defensive scheme — we weren’t expecting them to blitz their safeties so much on first down, and they showed some new wrinkles in zone coverage. I think it’s also fair to criticize some of Coach’s play calling, especially on third down. And the offensive line didn’t have their best game I think they’d tell you that themselves. In the end, there was just too much against us to overcome.…”
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