Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 13 Feb (Fri) – 11 inspiring quotes from Abraham Lincoln on liberty, leadership, and character; How a frugal janitor saved, invested and ultimately amassed $8 million
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Life
- 11 inspiring quotes from Abraham Lincoln on liberty, leadership, and character: BI
- How a frugal janitor saved, invested and ultimately amassed $8 million: WaPo
- Authorpreneurship: To succeed these days, authors must be more businesslike than ever: Economist
- How a 23-year-old makes $500,000 a year tweeting random facts: BI
- Charles Darwin, Natural Novelist: Why style was so important to the theory of evolution: NewYorker
- “Guys, Let’s Grow The Hell Out Of This Company”: How Y Combinator Startups Go Big: FastCo
- Those who can: How to turn teaching into a job that attracts high-flyers: Economist
- Lois Braverman of the Ackerman Institute: Making Room for Differences: NYT
- Seven secrets to nailing your pitch: Shark Tank judge Naomi Simson: BRW
- Turn email responses into blog posts, and other ways to protect your time without being rude: BRW
- Are National Champions Really Winners?: PS
- The trouble with the family compact: Bombardier Inc’s new CEO Alain Bellemare is on a short leash: FP
- Identify Blue Oceans by Mapping Your Product Portfolio: HBR
- 15 Habits Of Exceptionally Persuasive People: Forbes
- Opera: The Economic Stimulus That Lasts for Centuries: Bloomberg
Greater China
- From Wealth to Health: Rich Chinese Seek Spiritual Fulfillment; Executives Spurn M.B.A.s for Philosophy Classes, Shopping Excursions for Buddhist Meditations: WSJ
- Bunge says China lenders distorting soyabean trade: FT
- China’s increase in debt is massive and unsustainable: WaPo
- Without corruption, some ask, can the Chinese Communist Party function? WaPo
- Shaanxi Government to Probe Missing Funds After Mass Investor Protests: RFA
- China’s Two Largest Taxi-Hailing App Companies Discuss Merger; Alibaba-Backed Kuaidi Dache and Tencent-Backed Didi Dache Enter Advanced Talks: WSJ
- It’s a Wanda-ful life: China’s biggest property tycoon wants to become an entertainment colossus: Economist
- China’s army: Lifting the veil; Xi Jinping is bringing a corrupt army to heel. Now he must make it behave responsibly: Economist
- For many of China’s biotech brains-in-exile, it’s time to come home: reuters
- A third of China’s $2.5 trillion corporate bond market is going to be hung out to dry: BI
- Burst of Taiwan’s real estate bubble likely: regulator; Taxes to be levied on combined value of property and land in Taiwan: WCT
- Thinking Big in Guizhou with Big Data Business: caixin
- Collateral Damage From China’s Antigraft Drive: Bloomberg
- Hong Kong Civics Class Puts Beijing on Edge: WSJ
- China’s lending push bypasses cash-starved farm sector: Reuters
India
- Slumdog Millionaires: A colorful range of everyday entrepreneurs disprove the notion that India is simply a ‘socialist country in which the state is the key.’: WSJ
Japan & Korea
- GS E&C faces a class action suit for losses a group of individual investors suffered as the result of allegedly deceptive notices made through the stock market. KT
- Japan’s Oldest Businesses Have Survived for More Than 1,000 Years: Atlantic
- Lotte Group’s “exorbitant” bid to win the largest amount of duty free space at Incheon International Airport (ICN) is triggering concerns that it may fall victim to a “winner’s curse.”: KT
- Korean Air shocked by one-year jail ruling on heiress: AsiaOne
- Japan Rally Mutating With Abe Beneficiaries Becoming Biggest Losers: Bloomberg
- How Two Small Rocks Stop Japan and South Korea Getting Along: Bloomberg
ASEAN
- Vietnam’s migrant labourers: Going to debt mountain; Working abroad is no bargain: Economist
- Thai PM pushes ‘business as usual’ amid slow politics: Nikkei
Macro
- The mystery of negative bond yields: SCMP
- Equities bask in “weird world” of negative yields: Reuters
- Britain’s markets watchdog says investigating 67 fund managers: Reuters
- How businesses linked to blacklisted oligarchs avoid Western sanctions: Economist
- The tax havens hidden in plain sight: FT
- How Mortgage Fraud Made the Financial Crisis Worse: NYT
- Credit Suisse’s Superbad Bank; The last assets are so risky they are risk-weighted at more than 100%. Eventually, what is left in the bad bank then may end up once again just being part of the bank.: WSJ
- Central Banks Now Open 24/7 Fighting Currency Wars and Deflation: Bloomberg
- Even Berkshire’s Boardroom Ties Can’t Prevent the Costco-AmEx Divorce: Bloomberg
TMT
- Automated Insights, the guys with ‘robots’ writing stories, acquired by owner of Stats, LLC: WaPo
- The entrepreneur who is beating Amazon at same-day delivery: FastCo
- Holographic movies: Light at the end of a tunnel; Affordable moving holography may not be too far away: Economist
- Web pioneer Vint Cerf warns of internet history ‘black hole’: FT
- Tim Cook Doesn’t Believe This Made-Up Math Law Will Limit Apple’s Growth: Bloomberg
- 10 years of Google Maps: 10 ways it changed the world: TheAge
- Google, Mighty Now, but Not Forever: NYT
Healthcare
- The Coming Boom In Brain Medicines: Forbes
- Why Isn’t Health Care More Like Starbucks? Forbes
- Vaccines and Politicized Science; Jenny McCarthy knows the credibility of science is a house of cards. WSJ
- Toxic Ganges adds to spread of drug-resistant bacteria: FT
- How CVS turned its cigarette ban into a strategic weapon: BI
- Does a Real Anti-Aging Pill Already Exist? Inside Novartis’s push to produce the first legitimate anti-aging drug; The bacterium Streptomyces hygroscopicus is found only on Easter Island. Bloomberg
Consumer & Others
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