Bamboo Innovator Daily Insight: 16 Apr (Thurs) – Developing the Conviction to Do Meaningful Work; “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s reassuring life advice for struggling artists; Why one CEO loves when employees make mistakes; The trauma of becoming exceptional

Life

• Developing the Conviction to Do Meaningful Work: Strategy&
• “Mad Men” creator Matthew Weiner’s reassuring life advice for struggling artists: FastCo
• Why one CEO loves when employees make mistakes: BI
• The trauma of becoming exceptional: JT
•  Leaders as Decision Architects: HBR
• Zappos CEO Tony Hsieh to employees: Embrace self-management or leave by the end of the month: BI
• Abraham Lincoln, the One President All of Them Want to Be More Like: NYT
• The Next Big Thing In Design? Less Choice: FastCo
• How 1-Year-Olds Figure Out the World; the process used by little babies to figure out the world has much in common with scientific experiments. WSJ
• A Navy Seal, a Yacht Captain, and the Other People Billionaires Trust to Manage Their Money: Bloomberg
• Breakfast with the FT: Ray Kurzweil; the inventor and futurist details his plans to live for ever; The futurist on taking 100 pills a day, the thrill of inventing – and why ‘we’re going to overcome ageing’: FT
• Review: Strategy Rules, by David Yoffie and Michael Cusumano; A study in what business leaders in other sectors can learn from three tech pioneers: FT
• The Single Biggest Mistake I’ve Made As A Leader (And How I Fixed It): Forbes
• As the world’s biggest scaffolding mogul, new billionaire Mohed Altrad frames Europe’s skylines: Forbes
• Reading is key to mastering English: KT
• What to Do If a Feud Threatens Your Family Business: HBR
• The 15 Diseases of Leadership, According to Pope Francis: HBR

Books

• The Warren Buffett Philosophy of Investment: How a Combination of Value Investing and Smart Acquisitions Drives Extraordinary Success: Amazon, RTM

Investing Process & Research

• What’s the worst rule of thumb commonly cited in the market?: EM
• Goldman Sachs Offers Three Methods For Selecting Stocks To Short; Many investors are looking for promising short candidates today given stock markets are near all-time highs: VW
• The media moves the market: Favorable coverage influences the lending market; The Informational Role of the Media in Private Lending: Forbes

AsianExtractor: Unearthing Accounting Fraud in Asia

• Asian Citrus (73 HK): Shares in the orange plantation group tumble on news of citrus greening outbreak: AsianExtractor
• Rolta India: Glaucus Research – “Rolta has fabricated its reported capital expenditures in order to mask that it has materially overstated its EBITDA”: AsianExtractor
• China National Culture (745 HK) Disclosure Dodge: CEO Resignation 10 Months Ago: AsianExtractor
• China Yunnan Tin Minerals (263 HK): Glaring Error in Accounting and Auditing for Financial Assets at Fair Value: AsianExtractor
• China Environment FY2014: Significant Deterioration in Receivables Collectability And No Provision for Impairment: AsianExtractor
• China Environment (SES: 50U, Bloomberg: CENV SP): Auditor Emphasis of Matter raises more questions on potential accounting tunneling risk: AsianExtractor
• 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
• Does Auditor Explanatory Language in Unqualified Audit Reports Indicate Increased Financial Misstatement Risk? “Emphasis of matter” language predicts restatements + China Environment’s Auditor Emphasis of Matter: AsianExtractor

Greater China

• China and a short nuttiness debate: FT1, FT2
• China’s Biggest Chip Maker’s Possible Tie-Up With H-P Values Unit at Up to $5 Billion; Tsinghua Unigroup in talks to buy a controlling stake in Hewlett-Packard unit H3C Technologies: WSJ
• Alibaba Health Is a Valuation Hazard: WSJ
• Xiaomi-backed Chinese firm acquires iconic scooter maker Segway; Timeline: Segway’s journey from Good Morning America to China: Reuters, WSJ, FT
• A Chinese Paradox: Slow Growth Is Good, Stock Bubbles Welcome: Bloomberg
• Phoenix rising: China’s hard road to soft power: BS
• Son of late Communist Party chief warns China against slipping back to Mao era ideology: SCMP
• As patient numbers surge, China ‘cancer hotels’ emerge: JT
• Coming down to earth: Chinese growth is losing altitude. Will it be a soft or hard landing?: Economist
• Faltering Growth Forces China to Rely on Traditional Tools to Prod Economy; Economists Question Whether Infrastructure Spending and Easier Credit Will Be Enough: WSJ
• China’s First Homegrown Commercial Jet: Clear Skies Ahead?: K@W
• Why China’s Numbers Are Worse Than They Seem: Bloomberg
• Launch of stock index futures offers new tools for short selling: FT
• Can LeTV’s ‘superphones’ prove Apple’s kryptonite?: WCT
• Smart revolution in China: an Orwellian nightmare?: WCT
• Former executive councillor and chairman of the now-defunct Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange Barry Cheung Chun-yuen has been declared bankrupt with debts topping HK$120 million.: Standard
• The Tesla Of Scooters Is Driving Asia’s Two Wheel Revolution: Forbes
• China’s booming stockmarket: The bubble question: Economist
• Netflix will stick with ad-free model in China push -CEO: Reuters

India

• India builds first ‘smart’ city as urban population swells: Reuters
• From Dabbawallas To Kirana Stores, Five Unique Ecommerce Delivery Innovations In India: Forbes
• Hanging some of India’s public banks out to dry?: FT

Japan & Korea

• Japan wants visitors to experience its world-class toilet culture – and buy some toilets: WaPo
• Japan’s huge debt pile just got scarier; Japanese government debt will soar to 400pc of GDP within 30 years unless policymakers implement vital reforms, OECD warns: Telegraph
• Social commerce website Coupang suffered a massive operating loss of 121.5 billion won ($110.69 million) last year, nearly 28 times more than its 4.2 billion won operating loss in 2013: KT
• Japan’s Prisons Are Turning Into Nursing Homes; A nation with little crime finds that elderly prisoners prefer the comforts of life behind bars: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• Rising household debt casts doubt over Thailand’s economic revival: FT
• Malaysia is drifting dangerously; Najib must resist the temptation to clamp down on freedoms for narrow political interests: FT
• Jones the Grocer’s Singapore stores up for sale; Shareholder cites board differences; sale comes three months after JTG gave ‘business as usual’ assurance: BT1, BT2
• One year on, Thailand’s testy coup leader battles dictator label: Reuters

Macro

• The Collapse Of The Petrodollar: Oil Exporters Are Dumping US Assets At A Record Pace: Zerohedge
• U.S. Influence Hinges on Future of Dollar, Yuan; The U.S. owes its economic leverage to the dollar’s role in the global financial system. The yuan isn’t a serious rival-yet: WSJ
• Global property bubble fears mount as prices and yields spike: FT
• Petrobras shows corruption is now a high-stakes game in Brazil: FT

TMT

• State Street Draws on Neuroscience for Financial Systems Analytics Project: WSJ
• Meet Cyanogen, The Startup That Wants To Steal Android From Google: Forbes
• How Zenefits Beat Out Uber, Airbnb To Become 2014’s Hottest Startup: Forbes
• How Thumbtack Plans To Be Your One-Stop Local Services Shop For Plumbers, Chefs And Belly Dancers: Forbes
• Teespring Says It’s Minting New Millionaires Selling Its T-Shirts, Raises $35 Million Of Its Own: Forbes
• The Next Billion-Dollar Startups; Unicorn Rush: Three Startups That Beat Forbes’ Next To A Billion List: Forbes
• Meet Tanium, The Secret Cybersecurity Weapon Of Target, Visa And Amazon: Forbes
• Open-Source Darling Docker Cracks The Billion-Dollar Club With $95 Million Raise: Forbes
•  Too Many Unicorns? Why Billion-Dollar Startups Still Charm Us Today: Forbes
• Modern Loan Shark: Is Avant A Future Billion Dollar Unicorn?: Forbes
• 4 Big Industries And Their Next Generation Tech Disruptors: Forbes
• Why The ‘Next Billion Dollar Startup’ Is Not Always The ‘Next IPO’: Forbes
• The Investors Behind The Next Billion Dollar Startups: Forbes
• Can People Analytics Help Firms Manage People Better?: K@W
• Google’s Most Important Business Has A Huge Problem: LinkedIn
• Next Mail Truck May Have Rotors; U.S. Postal Service getting pitches from makers of drones, electric vehicles and Humvees: WSJ
• Virtual-Reality Projects Get Hollywood Treatment; Directors like Steven Spielberg are creating content for immersive offerings ahead of consumer headset push: WSJ
• How Factory Workers Learned to Love Their Robot Colleagues; Tesla names its robots after superheroes, but Nissan prefers anime characters: WSJ
• ‘Ransomware’ a Growing Threat to Small Businesses; Cybercriminals, using malware in bogus email, freeze computer files until a ransom is paid: WSJ
• Why Intel combined its $4.2 billion money-losing business with its most profitable unit: BI
• How a surprise LinkedIn message from Michael Dell caused this startup to threaten Cisco: BI
• Jawbone to take a bite of tap-to-pay market; Tie-up with Amex to enable wireless payments with fitness band: FT
• Five million customers, no ad budget: How Hootsuite used a freemium model to build its business: FP
• Case Against Google May Be Undercut by Rapid Changes in Technology: NYT
• The 3-D Printing Revolution: HBR

Energy & Commodities

• The Billionaire Banker Ready To Bet On Oil: Forbes

Consumer & Others

• Twinkie’s Miracle Comeback: The Untold, Inside Story of a $2 Billion Feast; With ingenuity, capital and creative chemistry, billionaire C. Dean Metropoulos and Apollo Global’s Andy Jhawar rescued Hostess Brands–and set themselves up : Forbes
• The messy business of reinventing happiness; Inside Disney’s radical plan to modernize its cherished theme parks: FastCo
• Supermarkets need to be smaller and smarter; Large retailers like Sainsbury’s have a capacity conundrum, but filling the excess space with toasters and hoovers isn’t the answer: Telegraph
• Major convenience store chains are stepping up their fight for a bite of the doughnut market, following Seven-Eleven Japan Co.’s pioneering move to launch the snacks last autumn.: JT