Daily Bamboo Innovator Insight (Life & Books): Friday 14 Nov 2014 – A popular currency trading website vanished overnight and $1-billion of investors’ money disappeared with it
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Life
Building Legacies: Family business succession in South-east Asia: Economist, CampdenFB
A popular currency trading website vanished overnight and $1-billion of investors’ money disappeared with it: FP
From crew member to CEO of McDonald’s Singapore; “Somewhere, some time in my career, someone gave me a break. Someone saw some potential in me and opened that door.” AsiaOne
Open letter to the G20: exposing the corporate shell game is good for business – and the world: Guardian
Billionaire Investor Ray Dalio Says These 5 Habits Made Him Successful: BusinessInsider
Family Businesses of the First World War: CampdenFB
Avian navigation: Flight risk; Pigeons appear to use gravity to set a course back to their lofts: Economist
European history: Reactionary days; How Europe invented the modern repressive state: Economist
Veterans break 50-year silence on China’s first nuclear test: WantChinaTimes
What the stock market can teach you about your own personality; Money brings out the insecurity in everyone. But here’s the good news: you can defeat it: Guardian
Why cats never became man’s best friend: Quartz
Why the Wagner family has outsourced almost nothing at its $200 million airport: BRW
The evolution of a TED Book cover: TED
Unraveling Why Some Mammals Kill Off Infants: NYTimes
The meaning of solitude: KoreaTimes
Auto Parts Billionaire Shahid Khan: I Felt The American Dream In My First 24 Hours Here: Forbes
Five Smart Risks To Set Yourself Apart In Cautious Times: Forbes
Transportation, divergence, and the industrial revolution (and the oil tanker king John Fredriksen), Climateer Investing
Plants talk to each other using an internet of fungus: Hidden under your feet is an information superhighway that allows plants to communicate and help each other out. It’s made of fungi: BBC
Cost management: A path to sustainable performance improvement: Nation
Taylor Swift Is the Music Industry: BusinessWeek
In the sleepy world of podcasts, ‘Serial’ murder mystery is a sensation and a global phenomenon —a testament to the power of great story-telling. WSJ
Three ways CEOs can improve the supply chain. CEOs increasingly view the supply chain as a critical point of competitive differentiation. Here’s how to make it better. McKinsey
Books
The Liar’s Ball: The Extraordinary Saga of How One Building Broke the World’s Toughest Tycoons: Amazon
Zeckendorf: The autobiography of the man who played a real-life game of Monopoly and won the largest real estate empire in history: Amazon
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