The Blogenberg team’s list of recommended reading this week:

• More and more, businesses are looking to inject right-brained thinking into management practices, leading the Harvard Business Review podcast to ask whether the MFA is the new MBA.
• Linguist Geoffrey Nunberg discusses how the word “elite” is used and abused in American politics with NPR’s On The Media.
• The New Republic provides an update on Rupert Murdoch’s effort to remake our favorite paper The Wall Street Journal.
• As a group, and perhaps not suprisingly, senior executives are heavy consumers of all forms of media.
• In this interesting run down of recent B-School research, Business Week looks at studies dealing with gender differences in saving money, talking up your competition, and whether the mere sight of the Apple logo makes you more creative. Check it out.
• How social media is changing and moving the stodgy PR field.
• The ongoing battle royale: Social networks vs. TV networks.
• Over at the Freakonomics blog (add it to your reader, it’s great), Arthur C. Brooks is writing an interesting and provocative series on research indicating that conservatives are happier than liberals (the series is called “The Politics of Happiness”). The discussion is well worth reading and participating in - even if you think that’s the most ridiculous thing you’ve ever heard.

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