Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either; Seven intelligent fanatics from India; At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 17 Jul (Fri)

Life

• Ben Horowitz: Great leaders aren’t born. But they’re not made, either. Fortune
• At Japan’s Nidec, the CEO as Comic Book Hero who says motivation, not smarts, was key to building one of Japan’s most profitable companies; 6S = Seiri (Keep things organized), Seiton (Keep things available), Seiketsu (Keep yourself clean), Seiso (Keep things clean), Saho (Keep good manners), Shitsuke (Keep good discipline). Bloomberg
• TED Before Bed: One mother’s nightly ritual with her son: TED
• 9 TED Talks to inspire smart conversation: TED
• Jack Welch on the one skill that can make or break your career: BI
• 13 things mentally strong people don’t do: BI
• Reading their minds: Animal congnition is an ever-growing field: Economist

Investing Process

• Hanergy Thin Film Says It Can’t Produce Documents for Regulatory Probe; Company says the documents are outside its control: WSJ
• Hanergy Thin Film threatens HK regulator with legal action: FT
•  Accounting scandal set to shake up Toshiba: FT
• Charlie Munger On “Frozen Corporation”: VIW
• Don’t confuse fundamental analysis with rote reporting. HSOTM
• Red flags to look out for in value-trap stocks: G&M

Greater China

• The 204 Chinese Profit Warnings That Will See More 2015 Defaults: Bloomberg
• How China’s Slowdown Is Worse Than You Think: Bloomberg
• Shanghai Rout Not Even Close to Done: Magnus Sees 35% Drop: Bloomberg
• If China Isn’t a Global Risk, What Is?: Bloomberg
• China Property Market Threatened by Stock Rout: Bloomberg
• China’s Largest Taxi On-Demand Company Introduces Shuttle Bus Services: Techcrunch
• Xiaomi Releases Latest 4K Smart TV: It’s Thin, It’s Cheap. Technode
• Xiaomi’s Hugo Barra Q&A: Why China’s Hottest Smartphone Maker Is Amassing a Patent ‘War Chest’: Bloomberg
• Changing Chinese habits help Mazda outstrip rivals in slowing market: Reuters
• Beijing Is Forever Blowing Bubbles; The American Enterprise Institute’s Derek Scissors says the pretense of a genuine market has been exposed.: Barron’s

India

• Seven intelligent fanatics from India: Fundoo
• Ajanta Pharma: The small big dream; It took a second generation of Agrawals to change the future of Ajanta Pharma which, from being mired in debt, has seen a 65-fold growth in market value: Forbes
• Forbes India’s Super 50 Companies: Building to last: Forbes

Japan & Korea

• Elliott Shakes Up Corporate South Korea Despite Samsung Setback; Hedge fund’s activism gives rise to hopes for corporate-governance changes: WSJ
• Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) covered up losses of more than 2 trillion won ($1.75 billion); KDB blamed for mismanagement of DSME: Maeil
• Fans Remember Nintendo President Iwata at Funeral: WSJ
• Samsung’s Narrow Victory Margin Sends Warning to Other Chaebol: Bloomberg
• Samsung Wants Shareholders to Have Cake and Vote, Too: Bloomberg
• Samsung and ‘the Jews of Wall Street’: Korean Takeover Fight Gets Uglier: Bloomberg
• Samsung Heavy Plunges Most Since 1994 After Report on Loss: Bloomberg
• Loss fears rattle South Korean shipbuilders: FT
• Samsung Group Beats U.S. Fund in Victory for Korean Corporation: Bloomberg
• Unable to curb household debt, S.Korea puts focus on loan quality: Reuters

ASEAN

• Singapore’s Millennials Are Escaping Their Parents for a Night With Airbnb: Bloomberg
• Popular app takes Indonesia’s ‘ojek’ bike taxis online: Nikkei
• New generation of taxis merge onto Jakarta’s crowded streets: Nikkei
• New business eludes Goldman Sachs in Malaysia amid 1MDB furore: FT
• In Thailand, Everyone Digs the Idea of a Canal, but It Never Goes Anywhere; People have been talking for centuries about building a canal but nothing ever : WSJ

Macro

• Carl Icahn Calls BlackRock a ‘Very Dangerous Company’: NYT
• Carl Icahn Fuels Criticism of Bond ETFs; More investors are becoming concerned over a possible crisis is brewing: WSJ
• Financiers in London are always predicting their industry’s demise. This time, they may be on to something: Economist
• Sorry to burst your bubble: New research suggests it is debt, not frothy asset prices, that should worry regulators most: Economist
• Boomtown, USA: You do not have to travel to the emerging world to discover emerging markets: Economist
• Why most of the world’s banks are headed for collapse: BI
• SEC Cranks Up Probe Into Fund Firms’ Fees; Inquiry centers on whether money managers are properly disclosing additional costs to investors: WSJ
• Citigroup may struggle to unload dreck of bad loan portfolio: Reuters

Energy & Commodities

• Pork Glut Batters European Farmers, Leaving Surplus for Sausages and Dog Food: Bloomberg

Healthcare

• Anti-malaria drugs could treat Parkinson’s disease: TODAY
• Researchers engineer antibody to tackle dengue: TODAY

TMT

• What Should Reddit Do? We Asked Kevin Rose And Other Community Founders; Techcrunch
• In the nascent “internet of things”, security is the last thing on people’s minds: Economist
• EBay and PayPal: Better off alone; EBay’s split should make investors happy-and corporate divorces more popular: Economist
• Amazon Showrooming Forces Stores to Go Digital on Price Displays: Bloomberg
• Digital-mapping services are increasingly in demand; Economist
• Past Prime? The Great Disruptor Amazon Is In Danger Of Being Disrupted. Forbes
• What Netflix’s meteoric rise means for Australia: TheAge
• A look inside the insanely successful life of Russian mathematician and shrewd businessman Eugene Kaspersky: BI
• Microsoft COO says this obscure product will become a billion-dollar business: BI
• How Google’s latest e-commerce product intends to capitalize on the booming mobile paid search market: BI
• Trying to Win the Public’s Trust With Autonomous Cars, at 120 M.P.H.: NYT
• EBay’s Future Darkens as PayPal Splits Off; Nearing its 20th anniversary later this year—a mark celebrated by Amazon this week—eBay presents a starkly different profile than its larger Seattle rival. : WSJ
• Moore’s Law Is Showing Its Age; The prediction about squeezing transistors onto silicon has been revised again.: WSJ
• Rocket Internet to close grocery delivery service in Germany due to a lack of cooperation from retailers and regulatory hurdles: Reuters
• If Netflix were a country, it’d be bigger than Britain: WaPo

Consumer & Others

• McDonald’s franchisees are terrified for the future: BI