Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 27 Jan (Tues) – Munger: Art of Stock Picking; The Secret Sauce of Corporate Leadership: Splitting the CEO and chairman jobs is beside the point. What’s needed is a skeptical No. 2.
January 27, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- The Secret Sauce of Corporate Leadership: Splitting the CEO and chairman jobs is beside the point. What’s needed is a skeptical No. 2.: WSJ
- What Kind of Leader Do You Want to Be?: HBR
- Is Your Brand Telling Meaningful Stories? Forbes
- When to Sell with Facts and Figures, and When to Appeal to Emotions: HBR
- Former executive shares the secrets to how Disney runs its empire: FastCo
Books
- The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations Into Breakthroughs: Amazon
- The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success : Amazon
- Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work . . . and What Does: The New Science of Leading, Energizing, and Engaging: Amazon
Investing Process
- Munger: Art of Stock Picking: G&D
- Small can be beautiful but quality is key; Avoid the urge to punt the riskiest small-cap stocks: FT
Greater China
- China’s financing curbs raise credit crunch fears: SCMP
- China Property Agony Deepens as Trust-Loan Lifelines Cut: Bloomberg
- China Private Bond Faces Stress as LGFV Says No Pledge: Bloomberg
- ICYMI, China’s credit buildup was pretty damn fast: FT
- Death Threats and Dawn Raids: Welcome to China’s Anti-Graft Drive: Bloomberg
- What’s behind Li Ka-shing’s corporate restructuring?: WCT
- Dagong’s internet finance blacklist stirs up the industry: WCT
- Overseas Hopes Lift China Manufacturing Family Into Billionaire Ranks: Forbes
- Chinese tycoon sues local governments for late payment; Action over contracts highlights risks to financial system: FT
- Shanghai first major Chinese region to ditch GDP growth target: FT
- China Yuanbang Declines After Chairman Held in Custody Quits: Bloomberg
- China’s Reform Stalemate: PS
- China’s Twisted Logic: The People’s Bank of China has taken a different, if not bizarre, view of how global trade and currency markets work amid Europe’s €1 trillion stimulus. Barron’s
- China’s Other E-Commerce Giant JD.com Follows Its Own Path: NYT
- Foreign Law Firms Face Pressure in China; Lawyers Compete Not Only With Each Other, but Also 19,000 Chinese Firms: WSJ
- What’s behind Li Ka-shing’s corporate restructuring?: WCT
- Dagong’s internet finance blacklist stirs up the industry: WCT
- Overseas Hopes Lift China Manufacturing Family Into Billionaire Ranks: Forbes
- China’s financing curbs raise credit crunch fears: SCMP
India
- India: The next superpower?: Fortune
Japan & Korea
- Japanese carmakers risk ceding self-driving car market to rivals: FT
- Starting South Korea’s New Growth Engines: PS
- Samsung Blind Faith Makes Cheil Expensive Revamp Bet: Bloomberg
ASEAN
- Thai Junta Unloading Mountain of Rice Amid World Surplus: Bloomberg
- The Financial Services Authority (OJK) plans to set a minimum capital requirement for entities to control their financial groups, ensuring sustainability amid risks faced by their subsidiaries. JP
- Rising Vacancies and Default Auctions Show Singapore Property Is on the Decline: Bloomberg
Macro
- Owners of Negative-Yield Sovereign Debt Say They’re No Fools: Bloomberg
- For New Revenue-Recognition Rules, It’s Ready vs. Not: WSJ
- Asia’s Richest Man Has Seen the Future and It’s in Europe: Bloomberg
- Crispin Odey Sees Global Slowdown That Will ‘Devastate’ Equities: Bloomberg
- Will Reverse Factoring Cause the Next Financial Bubble? Reverse factoring can raise the risk profile of supply chains to dangerous levels, and could even cause a systematic financial failure. CFO
- For Vanguard, these are the best of times: Vanguard Group surpassed State Street Global Advisors as the second-largest ETF provider, a new milestone following a year that was filled with them: IN
- Tricky Ratio of Chief Executive’s Pay To Workers’: NYT
- George Soros may be in a car race with Warren Buffett: Fortune
- Asia’s Life Agents Sing to Sell Insurance; Anthems Help to Psych Up Staff in Competitive Market: WSJ
- Too big to innovate: Get excited for the coming disruption of banks: WaPo
- The new 70s show: Australian dollar in the doldrums : TheAge
TMT
- Tech Giants Invest in New Dreams of Grandeur: NYT
- How The Founders Of TransferWise Came Up With The Idea For Their Billion-Dollar Company; Why TransferWise’s $1 Billion Valuation Will Terrify The Banks: BI
Healthcare
- The Operation Before the Operation; Three-dimensional printing allows surgeons to foresee issues, not stumble into them. NYT
Consumer & Others
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