Daily Bamboo Innovator Insight: Tues 2 Dec 2014 – Cirque du Soleil’s Next Act: Rebalancing the Business As Growth Prospects Slow; ‘The Rarity Was Gone’

Life 

Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer: “I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve”

Why Everything You Think About Aging May Be Wrong; As We Get Older, Friendships, Creativity and Satisfaction With Life Can Flourish: WSJ

Cirque du Soleil’s Next Act: Rebalancing the Business; As Growth Prospects Slow, Company Seeks to Beef Up Non-Circus Business; ‘The Rarity Was Gone’: WSJ

Evergreen Lessons From Buffett And Munger: IrrelevantInvestor

TV Stars From Italy Flock to Low-Cost Albania as Ad Market Sinks: Bloomberg

18 Tricks To Dramatically Increase Your Productivity: BI

Take it from a software engineer: learning code can be a nightmare: Quartz

Searching for Burmese Jade, and Finding Misery: NYTimes

Learning Our Roots, Inside and Out: ‘The Invisible History of the Human Race’ Provides Transparency on Our Genetic Heritage: NYTimes

Why Our Memory Fails Us; Just because you think you recall something doesn’t mean you do. NYTimes

‘Leadership goes far beyond just being a boss’: AsiaOne

Sleep Deprivation Is Killing You and Your Career: Forbes

How to Train Your Voice to Be More Charismatic; Scientists Analyze Public Leaders’ Voices to Discover the Basis for Charisma: WSJ

Annual Thai festival honours descendants of monkey god: AsiaOne

Greater China

Hong Kong IPOs Become Losing Bets for Investors: WSJ

Interest in China’s civil service declines with continuing anti-corruption efforts; “In the past, people liked to work as civil servants because they thought they could get a lot of ‘invisible welfare’ through their posts”: AsiaOne

Macau’s junket model breaks down as gamblers walk away: Reuters

China’s Ban On Puns Comes Straight Out Of ’1984′: BI

The new Silk Road: Stretching the threads; Impoverished south-west China seeks to become an economic hub: Economist

Why China keeps throwing trillions in investments down the drain: Fortune

Hong Kong Gold Sales Fall as China Tackles Corruption: WSJ

Mini Electric Cars Give a Jolt to China’s Market for Green Autos: WSJ

India

‘Government Must Improve Cold Chain Infrastructure’: Danfoss CEO; Niels B Christiansen, chief of energy services firm Danfoss, says India trails the world when it comes to food safety and preservation. And that needs to change: Forbes

India Aims to Shed Its ‘Fragile’ Label; Investors Bet That New Prime Minister Will Jump-Start Economy: WSJ

Gold Hidden in Underwear Shows How India Curbs Distort Rupee: Bloomberg

Japan & Korea

Samsung modest reshuffle disappoints: FT

Inside Takata, tantrums but little sense of crisis over air bags: JapanTimes

Softbank’s Pepper robot debuts as coffee machine salesman at Bic Camera: JapanTimes

Samsung Electronics exits fibre optics amid sharper focus on reviving smartphones: Reuters

ASEAN

The Securities and Exchange Commission has a five-year plan to make the Thai capital market a regional leader by introducing new rules allowing Asean companies to raise funds in this country’s market. Nation

Macro

Hedge Funds Shut as Managers Struggle in Year of Two Percent Returns: Bloomberg

Capital controls feared as Russian rouble collapses; Russia intervenes as crumbling ruble echoes 1998 debt crisis: Telegraph

Saudi regulator suspends Deloitte from auditing listed firms due to a case involving an unidentified firm: Reuters

As Indonesia expands oil storage, fewer opportunities for graft: AsiaOne

MOL Global shares tumble on Vietnam accounting glitch, profit slump: Reuters

TMT

To Gain the Upper Hand, Amazon Disrupts Itself: NYTimes

Naspers Offers Tencent and Change: WSJ

Tim Cook has created as much value as Steve Jobs: Quartz

Working the Land and the Data: Technology offers some family-owned farms an opportunity to thrive and compete with giant agribusinesses. NYTimes

The King Of Online Gambling (Is 34): Forbes

One in 10 iPhone owners ‘very likely’ to buy an Apple Watch: Fortune

DreamWorks’ Nightmare Shows No Sign of Ending: Barron’s

C.H. Robinson to buy Freightquote.com for $365 million: Reuters

Wanda Holds Talks to Buy Lions Gate, MGM in Hollywood Push: Bloomberg

Healthcare

The Virus Detectives: Sifting Through Genes in Search of Answers on Ebola; Inside the world’s most powerful factory for analyzing genes from people and viruses: NYTimes

A Smart Watch To Manage Epileptic Seizures: Forbes

Energy & Commodities

Banks’ $650bn bet on oil backfires as Brent prices slump; Lenders sitting on billions in losses after rise in risky debt to oil and gas companies raises prospect of impairments: Telegraph

Lubrizol’s Bolt-On Energy Deal A Priority For Berkshire’s Warren Buffett: Forbes

Yergin and El-Erian Analyze the Oil Rout: Barron’s

Malaysia Crudely Treated By Oil Slump: Barron’s

Malaysian tycoons see their O&G investment value cut by almost half: Star

As crude tumbles, oil drillers seek to temporarily idle more rigs: Reuters

Beware the Vulnerable Oil Debt That Lurks in Your Junk-Bond ETFs: Bloomberg