5 Ways To Transform Empathy Into Lifelong Success; Happy Birthday, Goethe: The Beloved Poet on Beginner’s Mind and Choosing One’s Influences – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 28 Aug (Fri)

Life 

• 5 Ways To Transform Empathy Into Lifelong Success: Forbes
• Happy Birthday, Goethe: The Beloved Poet on Beginner’s Mind and Choosing One’s Influences: BP
• Philippines Chief Justice suggests semimonastic life for judges; “If we can take away ostentatiousness and extravagance as a life goal for those aspiring to be members of the judiciary, and allow them to live a simple life, then I think we will have a more proactive system of inculcating the right values in the judiciary,”: AsiaOne
• Left brain, right stuff; Phil Rosenzweig, the IMD Professor and author talks about the importance of recognizing your ability to affect outcomes: Forbes
• Here’s the best way to tell if someone’s lying, according to science: BI
• Being Picky About Customers Early On Can Bolster Long-Term Success: NYT
• A Simple Yet Powerful Way to Handle a Stress Episode: HBR
• When Everyone Is Doing Design Thinking, Is It Still a Competitive Advantage?: HBR

Investing Process

• AirAsia X uncovers RM7m of fake payments: AsiaOne
• Professional services: Accounting for change; Consulting is back in vogue among the Big Four firms but some fear audit quality is at risk amid potential conflicts of interest: FT
• Asia Seeks Algorithms to Beat Turmoil as Designer Indexes Surge: Bloomberg
• Welcome to a wild world of robot investing: Automated computer programs have changed how markets function: FT
• Carlyle Finds Hedge Funds Hazardous: NYT

Greater China

• The Chinese government has asked 36 elementary and middle schools in the eastern province of Guangdong to teach students how to manage money and trade stocks: Fusion
• China Will Respond Too Late to Avoid Recession, Citigroup Says: Bloomberg
• Xi just changed the rules of the game in China – and that makes things scarier for everyone: BI
• China: The Superpower of Mr. Xi: ChinaFile
• China’s Banks Face Worst Year in Over a Decade; Lenders push to clear rising bad credits from their books: WSJ
• China’s Turbulence Exposes Risks to Europe’s Growth; Eurozone’s heavy reliance on exports leaves region vulnerable as emerging markets stumble: WSJ
• How Do You Short China? Some traders pile into insurance-like credit-default swaps: WSJ
• China’s Hunt for Growth in the Countryside; Alibaba, the e-commerce giant, is turning to the immense interior in search of fresh profits; Alibaba is spending 10 billion yuan building a network of e-commerce centers in rural China. Bloomberg
• Alibaba’s market edge? AI behavioral mindtricks: FT
• Will tech manufacturing stay in China?: Fortune
• Meet the dark horse of the wearables market: Xiaomi Mi Band: Fortune
• Market Turmoil? To Xi, Another Battle Still Comes First; Weak Economy Unlikely to Divert Chinese Leader’s Focus From Anticorruption Drive: WSJ
• What China’s Treasury Liquidation Means: $1 Trillion QE In Reverse: zh

India

• India Embraces Luxury as China Turns Cool; Makers of expensive items like handbags, shoes target new patches of wealth outside megacities: WSJ

Japan & Korea

• Japan’s Top University Embraces Silicon Valley Spirit; The University of Tokyo, long considered a breeding ground for Japan’s political and business elite, is venturing into new terrain: entrepreneurship. WSJ
• Can Netflix Become Must-See TV in Japan? The streaming service is betting it can prosper in a land where free TV still reigns: Bloomberg

ASEAN

• Malaysia Braces for Anti-Najib Rally in Test for Premier: Bloomberg

Macro

• Asian currencies are the new threat to the emerging markets lender Standard Chartered; Asia: long a one-word argument to buy many stocks is becoming an equally blunt reason to bail out.: WSJ
• Margin Calls Mount On Loans Against Stock Portfolios Used To Buy Homes, Boats, “Pretty Much Everything”: zh, WSJ

Energy & Commodities

• How Brazil’s China-Driven Commodities Boom Went Bust; Developing nation’s big bet on China turns sour as China’s appetite for exports dims; ‘looking at a lost decade’: WSJ
• Want to Make a Diamond in Just 10 Weeks? Use a Microwave; The output of man-made diamonds is less than one-quarter of 1 percent that of natural stones, but demand is growing.: Bloomberg

TMT

• A Technological Godsend to Counter Hearing Loss; The ‘hearing loop’ is a remarkable advance, but all too hard to find in the U.S.: WSJ
• Shazura: A More Efficient Way to Search Images: Bloomberg
• Researchers have created a self-healing material that works in less than one second: Fortune
• IoT And The Rise Of Subscription Marketing: Techcrunch
• Three Little Words Could Transform E-Commerce; Brazilian delivery company Carterio Amigo is using What3Words to give people in the favelas of Rio addresses: Bloomberg

Consumer & Others

• Subway’s Growth Era Fades as New Competitors Hobble Expansion: Bloomberg
• Proof That Ford Made a Mistake When It Stopped Making Small Pickups; Two charts show just how America’s pickup king got outmaneuvered by GM: Bloomberg