The core factor of success is focus, and here’s how to get it; Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 21 Aug (Fri)

Life

• The core factor of success is focus, and here’s how to get it: qz
• How a 29-year-old went from living on welfare to starting a business that earned nearly $1 million in its first year: BI
• Happiness Isn’t the Absence of Negative Feelings: PERMA = Positive Emotion (Peace, gratitude, satisfaction, pleasure, inspiration, hope, curiosity, and love), Engagement, Relationship, Meaning, Accomplishment: HBR
• When workers are owner: The received wisdom that employee ownership is a good thing comes with caveats: Economist
• John Mackey: The conscious capitalist: Fortune
• We are all sophists now — or should be; The most resilient skill in the modern world is argument: FT

Books

• Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom: Amazon

Investing Process

• Rogue stock investors have no place to hide, says Hong Kong’s market regulator Mark Steward: SCMP
• SFC’s outgoing crime fighter Steward warns successor to beware of nice people: SCMP
• Individual investors will file a compensation lawsuit against Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering (DSME) and Deloitte Anjin next month for allegedly committing accounting fraud: KT
• The genius of Warren Buffett in 23 quotes: mw
• A Dozen Things I’ve Learned from David Einhorn About Investing: 25iq

Greater China

• Chinese province’s debt crisis exposes economic fault line: Reuters
• To Become the Biggest Economy, China Needs to Stop Fighting Itself: Bloomberg
• Didi has 78 percent of China’s licensed-vehicle rental business but is raising billions to fend off Uber.: Bloomberg
• China Chipmakers Plague Intel, Qualcomm in ARM-Aided Share Grab: Bloomberg
• China’s motor trade: Driven to the brink; Slowing car sales are a threat to shaky dealerships: Economist
• How General Used His Military Service to Amass Fortune; Before being sent to jail for life, Gu Junshan used his positions in the PLA to enrich himself and relatives: Caixin
• China’s E-Commerce Boom Set to Overhaul Agriculture: Technode
• Making it big in China requires a large measure of localisation: FT
• No need to idolise China’s accident-prone technocrats; As long as the economy is as the party wishes, it turns a blind eye to risk, writes Michael Schuman: FT
• Malaysian billionaire Tan Sri Quek Leng Chan, who is known for his savvy investment moves, is selling Beijing property – held under  GuocoLand – to a state-owned distressed asset manager: Star
•  China Struggles to Get Rich Before It Grows Old: Bloomberg

India

• In India, Rural Internet Rollout Remains a Pipe Dream; Progress is slow on cable-laying project to get 600 million villagers online: WSJ
• In India, an App That Summons a Private Security Force; One Touch Response is among at least four organizations tapping burgeoning demand for tech-based security services in India, where rapes have increased to an average of four an hr: Bloomberg
• Goldman’s Billion-Dollar Babies Spur India Internet Fever: Bloomberg
• Lupin’s appetite for growth: Forbes
• In ‘Digital India,’ a 15-Minute Wait for Email; Progress is slow on cable-laying project to get 600 million villagers online: WSJ

Japan & Korea

• Corporate Japan Gets a Jolt From an Outsider: Bloomberg
• Japan Bond Trading’s 73% Drop to Record Shows Stimulus Damage: Bloomberg
• Lens maker Hoya struggles to grow its next pillar: Nikkei
• How South Korea’s AmorePacific Became One Of The World’s Most Innovative Companies: Forbes

ASEAN

• Indonesia Stocks Poised to Enter Bear Market as Economy Stumbles: Bloomberg
• Singapore paving the way for cheaper driverless cars: Nikkei
• Among Malaysia’s Many Scandals; The beleaguered ruling coalition is trying to manipulate electoral laws to its advantage. Again. NYT
• More Pain Tipped for Southeast Asia Stocks; Thailand, Indonesia and Philippines have taken a beating but shares look pricey given pressure on earnings.: Barron’s
• Civil justice in S’pore: 50 and going strong: BT

Macro

• 10 Currencies That May Follow Tenge in Tumble Triggered by China: Bloomberg
• The Asian Century Hits a Speed Bump: Bloomberg

Energy & Commodities

• Burned by Slump, Commodity Bulls Exit in Search of Better Return: Bloomberg
• Commodity Rout Erases $2 Trillion From Stock Values; Prices have plunged after years of overinvestment led to a supply glut at the same time that economic growth is slowing in China: Bloomberg
• The sell-off in commodities: A decade of bingeing on raw materials may leave an even longer hangover: Economist
• Feels like 1986: Oil on track for longest weekly losing streak in 29 years: Reuters

Healthcare

• Valeant Bets $1 Billion on Burgeoning Women’s Libido Market: Bloomberg
• Jimmy Carter May Benefit From Revolution in Cancer Immune Drugs: Bloomberg

TMT

• The Foxconn of Bathroom Scales: Flextronics tries to remake itself as a leader in the Internet of Things: Bloomberg
• Investors Say HTC Ain’t Worth Squat; The phone maker announces more cuts as its market value plummets: Bloomberg
• Smart cars, meet smart signals: Fortune
• Toys That Teach the Basics of Coding; Why play with a toy when you can hack one? Puzzlets, Sphero Sprk, and Dash and Dot make it fun for kids to learn the ABCs of programming: WSJ

Consumer & Others

• Hedge Funds Target Luxury Brands: WSJ
• Gap to Test ‘Fast Fashion’ Model in Select Stores; With quarterly sales down, apparel retailer says it will try to build new buying method as quickly as it can: WSJ
• Skechers’ Lesson From a Fad That Flopped; It learns how to avoid getting clobbered by boom-and-bust styles; Skechers’ stock market valuation has risen from $600 million at the end of 2011 to about $8 billion today. Bloomberg