peHUB First Read

* Henry Blodget: How to know you've hired a killer team * Jeremy Shoemaker's worst ideas of 2009 * Why do rich, fat men get all the girls? It's science. * Morning Call: U.S. futures up ahead of weekly jobs data, London rises early on banks, European shares bounce back, the Nikkei falls 1.4%, Indian shares slip and China shares rise. * Q&A with Sandra Horbach, head of The Carlyle Group's consumer and retail practice * Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarkozy argue for global regulation of global finance (they do not, however, rate front-page billing... apparently that's just for Rupe) * Thomas Friedman has the right counterargument to climate change skeptics and denialists (there is, by the way, a difference between the two -- the former is reasonable and the latter is blinded by "us vs. them" partisanship).