Maghound.com allows consumers to choose titles from a variety of publishers for mix-and-match “subscriptions” where they pay one monthly fee and have the ability to switch titles at any time. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet

"One might think this is an obvious relationship -- that you don't need to do a study showing that if workers are happy, the company performs better. But actually, it's not that obvious," says Edmans. "Traditional management theory treats workers like any other input -- get as much out of them as possible and pay them as little as you can get away with." Those ideas came to dominate management thinking during the industrial age when economic expansion was based largely on industrial machinery. In that environment, workers were required to perform relatively simple tasks and they were easily replaceable. Companies motivated workers mainly with money, paying by the piece in order to reward employees who churned out the most products. In today's business world shaped by new technology, knowledge and creative thinking, the value of each employee is increasingly important, although hard to measure directly, Edmans says. - Bryan Power

After disastrous bad weather flooded the Virginia show on their current supporting tour, The A.V. Club met with Yorke and guitarist Ed O'Brien and chatted about making transition records, simplifying their sound, and erotic landscapes. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet

For all the lip service paid to the ongoing struggle against terrorism, I certainly see no international espionage organization run from nuclear-powered flying aircraft carriers. Those of every political stripe can agree that we desperately need a gruff, eye-patched, cigar-chomping superagent to coordinate our response to all threats, foreign or domestic—be they ninja, cyborg, or psionic. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet

M&A deals and venture backed IPO's are lower now than they were in dotcom bust low point of 2002..... - Bryan Power

$3Billion?!?!?! Sony lost $3Billion on the PS3 in the last 18 months?? I think it's fair to say that selling it for $599 as a ***loss**** is a PhyrricStation victory. Wow. Bring back HD-DVD. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet

OUCH. - Bryan Power

Reader Chris Burke painted a useful and good-looking magnetic whiteboard in his office—cleverly, in the shape of a speech bubble - Bryan Power

#5 is all over Rihanna's Umbrella. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet

So what's the big takeaway? Home is clearly still a work in progress, functioning not that differently from what you heard about more than a year ago. Whatever it needs to make it a hit, I don't think it's in there — yet. - Bryan Power

But as often as we or anyone else writes about the perils of self-reporting, the Martinelli-Parker paper really gives the whole topic a foundation to stand on. Not only does it deliver a surprising insight into why we lie, but it is also a sobering reminder to naturally distrust self-reported data — at least until some scientists enable us to peer into one another’s minds and see what’s really going on there. - Bryan Power via Bookmarklet