Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 9 Feb (Mon) – How to Be Invisible: Stop demanding attention. Be like the arctic fox
February 9, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- How to Be Invisible: Stop demanding attention. Be like the arctic fox: NYT
- Care Is the X Factor at Work: The most powerful influence on people’s engagement at work is feeling genuinely cared for by their supervisor: NYT
- What is college good for? A college education should infect students with the desire to pursue worthy perception and lofty goals in their lifelong journeys: KT
- When You’re at the Crossroads of Should and Must: Firstround
- Would Aristotle find fat bonuses gross? We live in an age of meritocracy, but there is some debate over what this thing we call merit is. SCMP
- Engage The Fox: Farnam
- Marcus Aurelius: You Have One Life To Live: Farnam
- Atul Gawande: The Building Industry’s Strategy for Getting Things Right in Complexity: Farnam
Greater China
- Kaisa Sequels Coming to China’s Banks Amid Corruption Web: Bloomberg
- Magic Kingdom in China a mystery after the U.S. entertainment giant pushed back the opening of its first mainland China theme park to 2016: ChinaPost
- Fraud committed by unlicensed organizations running banking businesses are on the rise in China, reflecting poor government supervision: WCT
- HK Bitcoin investors claim HK$3b losses: Standard
- Taiwan’s Richest Man Faces Tougher Times In Mainland China: Forbes
- “Desperate” China Technocrats Worry About Balance Of Payments Crisis: Forbes
- In Macau, casino titans join China reform wagon: Reuters
India
- BRIC Becomes I With India Set to Outperform First Time Since ’99: Bloomberg
- India Sensex Set for Longest Loss Streak in 15 Months After Vote: Bloomberg
- With the much-hyped USD 2-billion funding by Mirach falling apart over “forgery” allegations, Sahara has begun exploring fresh options to secure bail for its chief Subrata Roy: Moneycontrol
Japan & Korea
- More than half of home-furnishing retailers near IKEA’s first shop in South Korea have seen their sales sink for the past two months, hit by the Swedish industry giant’s entry into the local market: KT
- Korea Pop Fervor to Lift AmorePacific China Sales by 30%: Bloomberg
ASEAN
- As Technology Entrepreneurs Multiply in Vietnam, So Do Regulations: NYT
- Indonesian Hotels Face Carnage From Widodo’s State Spending Cuts: Bloomberg
Macro
- EM fund managers: genuinely active or closet trackers? FT
- Fed-mageddon Looms Over Asia: The growing number of Americans finding work could lead to higher U.S rates and renewed volatility for Asia. Barron’s
- Easing Isn’t a Cure-All for Asia: Beijing’s monetary policy isn’t all that aggressive, and India’s central bank chief worries about “hot” money chasing rates. Barron’s
- Bigger Container Ships Pose Bigger Risks; Insurers, Others Worry About the Potential for Catastrophic Accidents: WSJ
- Currency-hedged ETFs in vogue as investors clamor for more: Reuters
- Warren Buffet faces pressure for more disclosure: FT: Reuters
- Head Of Largest Swiss Cantonal Bank Says Swiss Capital Controls Are “Certainly Possible: ZeroHedge
- Hanergy’s soaring share price raises bubble fears: SCMP
TMT
- Predicting Apple’s Future: Tim Cook’s Gentle Path To Avoid Apple’s Downfall: Forbes
- Uncovering Security Flaws in Digital Education Products for Schoolchildren: NYT
- Google shares its plan to nab 80% of Microsoft’s Office business: BI
- Smartwatch App Helps Track Glucose: WSJ
Healthcare
- Drug Making Breaks Away From Its Old Ways; ‘Continuous-Manufacturing’ Process Can Improve Quality Control, Speed Output: WSJ
Consumer & Others