13 brilliant ideas that turned these people into self-made billionaires; Nine Career Lessons I Learned From Comic Books: Don’t stop trying until the job is done. Focus on the needs of others more than your own needs – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Jun (Wed)
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Life
- 13 brilliant ideas that turned these people into self-made billionaires: BI
- Nine Career Lessons I Learned From Comic Books: Forbes
- The Wit And Wisdom Of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger: Forbes
- From obscurity to an unlikely comeback: how one leader turned a failing business around: FastCo
- Kirk Kerkorian, investor, 1917-2015; Elusive billionaire who bought and sold his way to wealth via the airline, hotel, film and car businesses: FT
- How science itself is coming under scrutiny: TheAge
- Are Companies Any Good at Picking Stars? Despite new assessment tools, the hunt for high-potential employees is more art than science: WSJ
- ‘Makers’ are worth £18bn to the UK economy; Britain’s DIY disruptors, also known as makers, are revolutionising technology in the UK – boosting GDP and creating jobs while they’re at it: Telegraph
- Three Essential Elements Of A Winning Mindset: Forbes
- How Adobe keeps key employees from quitting; Ditching annual performance reviews has paid unexpected dividends. Fortune
- A tech CEO explains the deceptively simple concept all leaders must understand: BI
Books
- We Need To Talk: Your Guide to Challenging Business Conversations : Amazon
Investing Process
- Some lenders to commodities trader Noble Group are looking to reduce their exposure as questions continue to dog the company over its accounting practices: WSJ
- Michael Dee unconvinced by Noble’s response; issues reply to firm; Noble Group, Michael Dee tit-for-tat amps up: BT, FT
- Asian Firms Scramble to Unravel Cross-Shareholding Structures; Corporate governance push throughout region impels firms to loosen grips on control: WSJ
- Warren Buffett’s halo shines on IAG – but what’s in it for Berkshire Hathaway? Warren Buffett plans $2 billion a year Australian spending spree; Which Australian stocks will Warren Buffett buy?: AFR, TheAge, TheAge2
Greater China
- The China Bubble Is Going to Burst: Bloomberg
- Chinese Skip ‘Smelly’ Cabs in Favor of Free Rides With Uber: Bloomberg
- Legend Holdings: what’s in the box? How to value an IPO covering everything from PCs to blueberries: FT
- Europe’s premium carmakers are warned the China ‘cash cow is dying’: FT
- Chinese Firms Put Cash to Work in Stocks; Some borrow to buy shares; a challenge for policy makers: WSJ
- Hong Kong boom-to-bust stocks show challenge of China link; Wild gyrations in Hong Kong share prices are raising concerns that a new trading link with mainland China is a conduit for questionable trading practices: JP
India
- India Rising, China Slowing Doesn’t Mean Modi Wins: Bloomberg
- Special Report: Why India’s medical schools are plagued with fraud: Reuters
- A Glut of Mall Space Echoes in India; Developers built aggressively, but too few people have enough money to buy at the shopping centers regularly: WSJ
- How Amazon Handholds India’s Small Traders Into Digital Selling: Forbes
Japan & Korea
- Shouting at Japan CEOs Still Losing Strategy, Fidelity Says: Bloomberg
- Japan’s Muji to form joint venture for move into India: Nikkei
- Toshiba forced to hold two shareholders meetings: Nikkei
- SoftBank, Foxconn to partner on humanoid robots: Nikkei
ASEAN
- Manila in midst of ‘township’ boom: FT
- New transfer pricing law in Thailand aims to counter tax planning: Nation
Macro
- ‘Direct investors’ a growing force in private markets: FT
- Billions held in passives with poor performance: FT
- Money Flows Out of 401(k) Plans as Baby Boomers Age; Withdrawals from 401(k) retirement plans exceed new contributions, a shift that could shake up U.S. retirement industry: WSJ
- Slumlords are the last rung of the shelter ladder: TheAge
- All Hands to the Pump in Asia’s Search for Liquidity: Barron’s
Energy & Commodities
- New oil order: Leaner times for Canada’s ‘Fort McMoney’: FT
- A year after the crash, oil markets risk more trouble ahead: Reuters
Healthcare
- Big hitters Mark Carnegie and James Dack back Aussie biotech Starpharma: SMH
- People born in some months are more likely to develop certain diseases: BI
TMT
- HoloLens Is Awesome, but Microsoft Has a Long Way to Go: Bloomberg
- No one questions Google’s ability to innovate, so why do its moonshots look like money pits?: WaPo
- London’s digital ad groups hit by complex changing business: FT
- Guadalajara: Mexico’s second city is a Latin ‘Silicon Valley’: FT
- Amazon’s Next Delivery Drone: You; Move would help Web retailer manage the shopping experience, rising shipping costs: WSJ
- How Chase Carey Helped Build Fox Into a Major Player; The chief operating officer, who is stepping down, spearheaded deals for football and Fox News: WSJ
- In Return to Twitter, Jack Dorsey Aims to Follow Path of Steve Jobs: NYT
- All American tech “unicorns” put together barely make one Facebook: Quartz
- Freelancer.com, the world really is becoming flat: e27
- How this Israeli entrepreneur with Canadian roots is setting out to change the world with nanotechnology: FP
- The social network that gets you a ride; Long-distance ride sharing marketplace BlaBlaCar is building a community of co-passengers, one ride at a time. Their model, strangely in these times, is built on trust, says the India head: Forbes
- VMware is now targeting a market that Microsoft has dominated for decades: BI
Consumer & Others
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