Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success; Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By – Bamboo Innovator Daily: 19 Sep (Sat)

Life

• Humanity as a Competitive Advantage; As technology advances, people will need qualities such as empathy, care, attunement, self-awareness and generosity to get ahead. NYT
• After Trauma, New Strength as Well as New Scars; Survivors of terrible accidents and losses often find more meaningful ways to live and richer types of happiness: WSJ
•  When C.E.O. Comebacks Fail ; Companies that hire back their old executives hope to emulate Apple. But not everyone can be Steve Jobs. : NewYorker
• The Sum of Human Knowledge: Computers govern how long the microwave heats food or the dryer spins clothes. Can they learn to form ideas and theories about the world around them as well?: WSJ
• Why We Can’t Get Over Ourselves: Exposing the reasons we fail to understand the minds of others. Nautil
• Why Etsy engineers send company-wide emails confessing mistakes they made: qz
• Why the U.S. Government Is Embracing Behavioral Science: HBR
• This tower purifies a million cubic feet of air an hour: Wired
• Asia fund industry veteran goes independent to promote corporate governance: SCMP
• In warming Arctic, mosquitoes may live long and prosper: Reuters

Books

• Supersurvivors: The Surprising Link Between Suffering and Success: Amazon
• Upside: The New Science of Post-Traumatic Growth: Amazon
• What Doesn’t Kill Us: The New Psychology of Posttraumatic Growth: Amazon
• Mindwise: Why We Misunderstand What Others Think, Believe, Feel, and Want : Amazon
• Winning Decisions: Getting It Right the First Time: Amazon
• Redirect: Changing the Stories We Live By: Amazon
• The Tell: The Little Clues That Reveal Big Truths about Who We Are: Amazon

Investing Process

• Here’s why one hedge fund manager thinks Alibaba could be a big fraud: Fortune
•  Alibaba Objects, but We Stand By Our Cover Story: Barron’s
•  Incorrect accounts are the board’s problem: Star
• Deloitte Resigns As Auditor For Tianhe Chemicals: VW
• Pressure to show a profit led to Toshiba’s accounting scandal: JT
• A New Strategy for Small Stocks; Small-cap value funds have long been touted as the winning asset class over the long-term. The strategy works-most of the time. What to do when it doesn’t. Barron’s
• Summit panellists say investors now need abler managers; they can’t just count on market indices to generate returns: BT

Greater China

• In Chinese Beer Battle, Tsingtao’s Froth May Go Flat; The country’s second-biggest brewer may not benefit from market consolidation: WSJ
• Apple Pay Begins Entry Into Chinese Market; Apple Pay has registered an entity in the Shanghai free-trade zone: WSJ
• China’s Strategy in U.S. Car Market: Make Parts First; Chinese firms build, acquire parts plants as toehold in mature markets; Malibu door handles: WSJ
•  China’s Big Industry Braces for Five-Year Pain: WSJ
• Online criticism of Li Ka-shing points to break-up with leadership: SCMP
• Stirring up a growth strategy: China Kweichow Moutai, the maker of baiju, a traditional Chinese liquor, will develop cocktails made with chrysanthemums, roses and blueberries.  Nikkei

India

• Understanding the Rise of Manufacturing in India: HBR

Japan & Korea

• Korea’s Beauty Tech Startups Thrive As Traditional Industry Stumbles: Technode
• Former vice finance minister Sakakibara sees end to era of weaker yen; The yen has weakened about 30 percent since Prime Minister Shinzo Abe came to power at the end of 2012 : JT
• Panasonic’s ‘samurai’ CEO: Having pulled the company out of the red, Kazuhiro Tsuga, fast-driving president of Panasonic Corporation, is steering it away from consumer electronics as it approaches its centenary in 2018. BT

ASEAN

• Malaysia Fund 1MDB’s Missing Money Problem Grows; Mystery deepens about fund set up by Prime Minister Najib Razak: WSJ
• Malaysia Struggles With a Dearth of Deals; Malaysia copes with a drought in IPOs and deals that shows no signs of ending: WSJ

Macro

• How Rules on Financial Advisers Are Set to Get Tougher; Advisers who are pitching a firm’s own products or alternative investments or are wooing clients to join them at a new firm face increasing scrutiny: WSJ
• Jamie Dimon’s Stark Rate Hike Warning: Treasurys “Will Be Violently Volatile” When Rates Rise: zh
• Fed Opens Negative Interest Rate Pandora’s Box: What Happens Next: zh
• It Begins: Australia’s Largest Investment Bank Just Said “Helicopter Money” Is 12-18 Months Away: zh
• If Investors Bail, Will Your Bond Fund Flail?: WSJ
• Watching the Fed, and Remembering the Tequila Crisis: NYT
• The Future and How to Survive It: HBR
• What Fed’s Deferred Rate Hike Means for Asia: Delay prolongs uncertainty and stokes deflation fears. Which markets are vulnerable to more outflows? Barron’s

Energy & Commodities

• Glencore’s Shareholder Trouble Has Lessons for All: WSJ
• WWF: Global Oceanic Populations Slashed in Half in 40 Years: JG

Healthcare

• Better Value in Health Care Requires Focusing on Outcomes: HBR

TMT

• UPS Tests a 3-D Printing Service; Delivery giant wants to know if new technology can help or hinder its business: WSJ
• Could Japanese Paper Art Help Solar Cells Follow the Sun? A technique similar to origami could cut plastic so it can rotate like a plant-and perhaps boost energy collection by 20% to 40%: WSJ
• Taxing Times for Yahoo! and Its Alibaba Shares; Ominous rumblings from the IRS about a spinoff leave the company groping for a path forward. Bloomberg
• Can Germany Beat the U.S. to the Industrial Internet?: Bloomberg
• When Is a Lease Not a Lease? When It’s an iPhone: NYT
• Now you see it, now you don’t: invisibility cloak nears reality: Reuters

Consumer & Others

• Coca-Cola Owes $3.3 Billion in Taxes Over Foreign Transfer Licensing: WSJ
• The new dynamics of automotive supply; The sector is popular with private investors. But before jumping in, buyers must understand the nuances that will drive growth in the next five years. McKinsey
• Gentex transforms rear-view mirror into high-tech vision system that eventually could be integrated into self-driving cars: Reuters
• How Vancouver’s achingly hip Herschel Supply Co. backpack became so ubiquitous: FP
• McRevolt: The Frustrating Life of the McDonald’s Franchisee: Bloomberg