My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought; To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 1-2 Sep (Tues+Wed)
September 2, 2015 Leave a comment
Life
- My Most Powerful Tool for Thinking and Decision Making: The more your write, the more precision of thought you build. It allows you to take fuzzy thinking and distill it into precise line of thought: SN
- To Whom Do Japan’s Most Powerful Turn for Advice? The Sensei of Seaweed; Ina Food chief, little known abroad, counsels Toyota boss and others on how to manage a company: WSJ
- How Making Time for Books Made Me Feel Less Busy: HBR
- A CEO says this is one quality entrepreneurs need to be successful: BI
- Leadership is about understanding people, and you can learn a lot from reading about literature, art, and politics.: Strategy&
- 4 lessons in storytelling from a screenwriter who’s also a d&d dungeon master: FastCo
- 11 Secrets Of Irresistible People: Forbes
- To Stop Procrastinating, Start by Understanding the Emotions Involved; Time management goes only so far; the emotional reasons for delay must also be addressed: WSJ
Investing Process
- Knowing when to exit the markets is important: Forbes
- The Misplaced Faith in Optimizing Portfolios: TA
- Conglomerate Honeywell Finds Love Amid the Breakups; Investors reward Honeywell, even as others are pressured to tighten their focus: WSJ
Greater China
- China stock probes send shivers through investment community: ‘If I don’t come back, look after my wife’: FP
- China is scaring away foreign investors with its efforts to defend shares: Economist
- Nearly 90% of micro-shops on WeChat likely to close: WCT
- A Secretive Agency Hunts for China’s Crooked Officials Worldwide: Bloomberg
- In search of China’s local gov debt gap… oh, sorry, we meant cap: FT
- China risks an economic discontinuity; Many believe the economy is already growing far more slowly than the government admits: FT
- After 39% Rout, China Stocks Still Cost Double Hong Kong Prices; Bloomberg
- The $2 Trillion Emerging-Stock Drop Fixing All Eyes on China: Bloomberg
- Xi Rebukes Powerful China Youth League for Being Out of Touch: Bloomberg
- China Hedge Funds Face Worst Month in 16 Years After Carnage: Bloomberg
- Alibaba Investors Backpedal as China Slowdown Saps Sales Growth: Bloomberg
- If We Don’t Understand Both Sides Of China’s Balance Sheet, We Understand Neither: VW
- Questions about China’s bad banks and bad debt will not go away: FT
- Slowing Growth Exposes Chinese Banks’ Debt Debris: NYT
- At 2 p.m. in China, the Stock Market Rescue Suddenly Switches On: Bloomberg
India
- Millions of India’s workers threaten to strike: CP
- Knowing when to exit the markets is important: Forbes
- MCX: Out of the Jignesh Shah shadow: Forbes
- Jim Rogers exits India, says one can’t invest just on hope; Rogers said he has sold all his India shares as he saw nothing new coming from Prime Minister Narendra Modi: LM
- Of pampered Indian unicorns: FT
- Anger as India’s growth fails to provide employment: AsiaOne
- India pulls back from $6.4bn tax raid on foreign investors: FT
- India warned to beware gloating over China crisis; Doubts over GDP data and New Delhi’s ability to exploit its neighbour’s difficulties: FT
Japan & Korea
- Bitten by volatility, ‘Mrs Watanabe’ less bold about buying dollars: Reuters
- Foreign Investors Head to Tokyo Unshaken by World Stock Rout: Bloomberg
- Abenomics Pays Fat Dividends as Stocks Trounce Bonds for Yields: Bloomberg
ASEAN
- Dimming Southeast Asia growth outlook adds to risks for China: Reuters
- 36,000 Jobs at Risk as Small-Scale Indonesian Textile Factories on the Verge of Collapse: JG
- Indonesia’s Joko Widodo struggles to extend power base: FT
Macro
- Welcome to Quantitative Tightening as $12 Trillion Reserves Fall: Bloomberg
- For Stock Markets, the Moment When Humans Matter; Stock-pricing problems lead to questions about ‘Rule 48’: WSJ
- Investors wake up to emerging market currency risk: FT
- Emerging markets: Fixing a broken model; As exports slow and foreign capital takes flight, developing nations must act to avert a crisis: FT
- The Hedge That Wasn’t: How $150 Billion of Mystery Bonds Flailed: Bloomberg
- Easy Money Creates the Most Dangerous Bubbles: Bloomberg
Energy & Commodities
- Why the commodities super cycle was a myth; Falling prices show the world is not running out of resources: FT
Healthcare
- Robot Millionaire Takes a Shot at Fixing Severed Spines; Bloomberg
- Genes genie: Oxford Nanopore’s Gordon Sanghera; Gordon Sanghera has a grand ambition: to build a new science-based company under British ownership that commands a large global market. FT
- Can Some Probiotics Have an Antibiotic Effect? A strain of healthy bacteria can kill harmful bacteria in lab tests: Healthcare
TMT
- The amazing life of Stewart Butterfield, the CEO of one of the fastest-growing business apps ever: BI
- Google’s Driverless Cars Run Into Problem: Cars With Drivers: NYT
- The moral hazard created by buckets of start-up funding: FT
- Tech Firm Serving Hedge Funds Shows Perils in Money-Losing IPOs: Bloomberg
Consumer & Others
- Lululemon wants to know if you want your pants to hug you or feel naked: WaPo
- Forever 21 Rethinks Its Love of Giant Stores; Teen retailer talks to mall owners about scaling down, also seeks a loan: WSJ