Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 26 Mar (Thurs) – Lee Kuan Yew: Devoted husband and caring father

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Remembering Lee Kuan Yew

• Lee Kuan Yew: Devoted husband and caring father: AsiaOne
• In Lee’s death, Singapore efficiency shines through: AsiaOne
• Remembering Lee Kuan Yew, the candid leader: AsiaOne
• Jon Huntsman: What I learnt from Lee Kuan Yew: BT
• Former Senior Minister of State: ‘If you won his trust, he wouldn’t question you’: AsiaOne
• Journey with a master teacher: AsiaOne
• What Comes After Lee Kuan Yew?: PS
• Singapore, the Nation That Lee Kuan Yew Built, Questions Its Direction: NYT

Life

• Mark Cuban shares the most important lesson he learned in his 20s; “Most people won’t put in the time to get a knowledge advantage”: BI
• Sam Walton’s Rules For Building A Business: VW
• Why Shake Shack founder Danny Meyer makes all of his new executives bus tables: BI
• The amazing rags-to-riches story of Li Ka-Shing, Asia’s richest man: BI
• Inside Google’s insanely popular emotional intelligence course: Fastco
• 5 Lessons On Innovation From Modern-Day Explorers And Adventurers: Fastco
• The higher people rise at work, the more they are flattered and the less they hear honest criticism: FT
• Wanted: flexible corporate strategies for fast times; Frameworks used by managers are worn and compelling new theory is rare: FT
• Delighting in the possible: In an unpredictable world, executives should stretch beyond managing the probable.: McKinsey

Books

• A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life: Amazon, FT

Investing Process

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• FASB and the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB) voted to propose additional changes to the converged revenue recognition standard to address implementation concerns of financial statement preparers: JoA
• Investors Shouldn’t Ignore Other Comprehensive Income: AT
• HOWARD MARKS: Liquidity is not how easily you can sell something, but what price you get when you’re forced to: BI

Greater China

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor
• Who is watching the Hong Kong’s Securities and Futures Commission and Asia’s Regulatory Authorities?: SCMP
• Hanergy’s soaring share price raises questions; Hong Kong authorities need to satisfy themselves on the solar group: FT
• China’s regulatory grip on IPOs leads to arbitrage and distortions: FT
• China’s Xi says miscarriages of justice must be tackled properly: Reuters
• China low on crude oil storage capacity: FT
• Foxconn Leads Fight to Save Business Tax Breaks in China; Assembler of iPhones holds up proposed factory over curbs on promised subsidies: WSJ

India

• What Can Modi Learn From Lee Kuan Yew?: bloomberg
• India’s Illicit Moneylenders Aren’t Going Away; Greater access to banking system doesn’t resolve needs of India’s massive informal economy: WSJ

Japan & Korea

• Investors seek piece of accounting scandal-hit Japanese start-up Eneres: Reuters
• Modular mojo: Toyota re-engineers its appeal: Reuters

ASEAN

• Open Letter to SGX/MAS: Reply to CFO of SGX-Listed China Environment (CENV SP) on report “Potential Accounting Tunneling Fraud at China Environment?” – Address the accounting and governance concerns in an SGX/MAS announcement: AsianExtractor

Macro

• Chronic institutional weakness holds Brazil back: FT
• Buyout Firms Feel Pinch From Lending Crackdown; Regulatory guidance that seeks to limit the use of borrowed money in takeovers has hampered the business of debt-laden acquisitions: WSJ

Energy & Commodities

• Billionaire Fredriksen Sails Into Three-Year Rig Storm: bloomberg

TMT

• One VC had the perfect response to another VC who says we’re not in a bubble: BI
• Apple just invented an incredible technology that would help the iPhone further distance itself from every other smartphone: BI
• Silicon Valley is seizing the customers; Instead of building for others, companies are doing more for themselves: FT
• Force fields could be the next big battlefield innovation: WaPo
• What Can Apple Watch Learn from Google Glass?: K@W

Healthcare

• Drugs companies unite to mine genetic data: FT
• The true value of a life is not about the pharmaceutical costs; Perhaps governments should finance the payment of a national licence fee for drugs: FT
• Biotech Stocks Deliver a Dose of Pain; Nasdaq Composite posts its biggest one-day decline in nearly a year: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• How the Heinz-Kraft merger is part of a consumer staples feeding frenzy: FP
• Here’s what the new Kraft Heinz Company will look like: BI
• Taco Bell compares McDonald’s to a communist dictatorship: BI
• Here are the problems Warren Buffett just inherited from Kraft Foods: BI
• Kraft, Heinz Brands Need Some Catching Up; Many of their products haven’t kept pace with changing American tastes: WSJ