How to break through mediocrity and become exceptional in your field; The day multimillionaire life coach Tony Robbins became a wealthy man, he was down to his last $2 – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 26 Jun (Fri)

Life

• How to break through mediocrity and become exceptional in your field: BI
• The day multimillionaire life coach Tony Robbins became a wealthy man, he was down to his last $20: BI
• Vaccination: The lifesaver; How one man became involved in two of the 20th century’s most important medical breakthroughs: Economist
• KFC founder Colonel Sanders didn’t achieve his remarkable rise to success until his 60s: BI
• 3 things extremely lucky people do differently: BI
• 9 fears everyone should get over before turning 30: BI
• 24 ways to stop making horrible decisions (and start making better ones): BI
• 8 pieces of entrepreneurial wisdom from my father: e27
• The buzzy new term at Microsoft is ‘growth mindset’ — here’s what it means: BI
• Innovating fast or slow? Gates vs Wolf edition: FT
• Bill Gates answers questions on a range of issues: FT
• The silent anxiety of the sharing economy; Fear of failure and existential panic stalk the self-employed: FT
• Want to write a piece for the Financial Times op-ed page?: FT
• Living With Cancer: Being Mortal: NYT
• The Rise of ‘Speed-Listening’: Books can be places for intellectual wandering. They can also be mined of precious information with ruthless efficiency.: Atlantic

Investing Process

• Buffett’s Acquisition Rules Applied Internationally: Wisdomtree
• The poster child for what was once a ‘can’t lose’ investment is filing for bankruptcy: BI
• Startup investor says one-third of the pitches he sees contain a total lie: BI
• ‘Sell’ recommendations on endangered list: FT
• Responsible investment: Vice versus nice: Is divesting from sectors such as fossil fuels really the best way to force companies to be more responsible?: FT
• The secret sauce of smart investing: Forbes
• Tanjung Offshore director informs SC over irregularities, asks for investigations: Star

Greater China

• Hong Kong Regulator Opposes Stock Exchange’s Proposed Rule Change to Allow Dual-Class Shares; Securities regulator says planned share-structure revision could harm city’s reputation: WSJ
• Macau Builds, but Gamblers Don’t Come; As new megacasinos open their doors, supply fails to create demand: WSJ
• There’s a Huge Investment Opportunity in Chinese Bones: Bloomberg
• Foxconn’s Gou to Tap Smart Manufacturing in Move Beyond Labor: Bloomberg
• With $21 Trillion, China’s Savers Are Set to Change the World: Bloomberg
• China Has Big Plans for Homegrown Chips: Bloomberg
• Tesla’s Most Excellent Adventure, China Edition; The electric carmaker has high hopes in China. But anxiety about availability of power hurts sales: Bloomberg
• The Simple Reason Why China’s Stratospheric Stock Market Rally Can’t Fuel Economic Growth: Zerohedge
• China seeks productivity salvation in robots: FT
• Chinese Stock Plunge Leaves State Media Speechless: Bloomberg
• Taiwan must shed its paralysis to rescue electronics industry: WCT
• China’s former leader Deng Xiaoping awaits a defining autobiography: Economist

India

• India’s State-Owned Banks Strained by Bad Debt, RBI Warns: WSJ
• Modi Frustrated Leaves India Loan Bankers Idle as Plans on Hold: Bloomberg
• Infosys CEO Vishal Sikka On The End Of India’s ‘IT Miracle’: Forbes
• India’s ecommerce groups target online grocery shoppers: FT
• Why central bankers fixate on the monsoon as much as farmers: Economist

Japan & Korea

• SK Group Shareholders Approve Controversial Merger of Units; The result paves the way for billionaire Chey Tae Won to solidify his family’s control over the country’s third-largest conglomerate. Bloomberg
• Tokyo told to send 1m elderly to provinces as ‘care crisis’ looms: FT
• Japan does splits to woo Mrs Watanabe: FT
• KOSDAQ spin-off plan would backfire: KRX: KH
• Regulations choke growth of S. Korean healthcare industry: Maeil

Macro

• The Robots Are Coming. To Put You in an Index Fund: Bloomberg
• Warren Buffett still says derivatives are ‘weapons of mass destruction’: AFR
• Calpers’s Disclosure on Fees Brings Surprise, and Scrutiny: NYT
• From Deutsche Bank to Siemens: What’s Troubling Germany Inc.?: Bloomberg
• SEC Chief Tilts Again to Activists; Mary Jo White outlines change that would make it easier for shareholders to vote on board candidates offered by investors: WSJ

Healthcare

• Medical testing: Young blood; Theranos, an ambitious Silicon Valley firm, wants to shake up the market for medical testing: Economist

 

TMT

• World’s first commercial jetpack set for 2016 launch: Reuters
• Is data analytics about causes … or correlations?: TODAY
• Microsoft’s CEO just laid out the company’s new mission in an email to all employees: BI
• Technology conceives the inconceivable; Some implications are too big and too revolutionary to grasp: FT
• Google unleashes the driverless car it built from scratch: Fortune
• Automakers Tackle the Massive Security Challenges of Connected Vehicles: WSJ
• Many big companies live in fear for their future in digital age: Reuters
• This online school for developers pays teachers millions of dollars: FastCo
• Wireless charging: Coiled and ready to strike; Electronics has already cut the data cord. Can it now cut the power cord as well?: Economist

Consumer & Others

• Can Craft Beer Survive AB InBev? The Budweiser maker’s acquisitions are unsettling the craft movement: Bloomberg
• Why Don’t Carmakers Kill Off Unpopular Models? Mini shows a rare willingness to ditch models few people wanted to buy: Bloomberg
• How a gym that serves free pizza climbed to the top of American fitness: WaPo