Mel Gibson was caught last july 28 driving under the influence of liquor, and was alleged to make despicable anti-Semitic remarks when arrested. He later apologized for his remarks, and admitted that he have a lifelong problem with alcoholism.

I remember Mel Gibson as a great actor, who have made films that may not necessarily have good influence ( like Mad Max), and some that are Read the rest of this entry »

Here’s a quote that brags about an executive’s ability to deliver results. Keyword is when.

When I take action, I’m not going to fire a $2 million missile at a $10 empty tent and hit a camel in the butt. It’s going to be decisive. - President George W. Bush.

You read the newspapers and you see so many non-sensical things that people do. And it lands them in the news. Just happened to remember that saying that “nonsense walks and money talks.“

I was just reading an article in newsweek about SAPs CEEO Henning Kagermann. He is known as a “get it done type” person , somebody who can make the trains run on time in the toughest of environments. I guess in today’s enrivonment, that is the greatest accolade a CEO can hope to get and should be the goal of anybody aspiring to be one.

a University of Alabama study suggests why we may be gaining weight. If we don’t smoke, we eat more. If we sleep less, you release hormones that increases your appetite. Some really good food for thought…

in adam sandler’s lates film, entitled “Click”, he played a role of an architect who was given the ability to fast forward, freeze or rewind his life. What do people learn when they understood better the past and have seen their future? Just like the classic dickens book, a christmas carol where mr scrooge saw his future and past, For adam sandler, it was a decision to spend more time with his family. Shouldn’t all of us?

I just saw this quote, ” Old golfers never die - they simply lose their drive.” Well, that’s the point. Entrepreneurs, just like golfers, will stop winning when they lose their drive.

I was exchanging mails with a friend. She sent me an email at 9 in the evening and I replied almost immediately. She asks, ” Wow, you still working?”.

I said, “yes, I’m working. I am not only part of this grand conspiracy of enabling people to work longer hours by giving them the tools to work anytime, anywhere, but I’m a victim as well. ”

She replied back, ” I’m checking my emails, because it is better to wait till the traffic thins before going home.”

I thought about her dilemma of having to commute to and from work daily, and my own dilemma, and answered back, ” Gee, working anytime, anywhere may not be so bad after all.”

Maybe even if you work longer, at least you work whereever, whenever. Maybe even in traffic … if you’re not driving. I always thought it is less stressful to work hard than to fret in traffic.

Ever since I started getting hooked to personal computers back in 1984, I’ve spent a few hours a day with the machine. That means I must have already logged in tens of thousands of hours with the PC. Reports say that there are now over 885 million computers worldwide, and more than 220 million will be sold next year. However, there are now also well over a billion cell phones, a hundred million PS2s, 50 million ipods.

Some ( like Ray Ozzie, chief software architect of Microsoft) say the end of the PCs is near. I wonder how the future looks like.

read this in businessweek:

Family businesses tend to be more profitable and grow faster in revenue and employment than non-family companies, claims a new study in Family Business Review. The study, conducted by Jim Lee, a professor at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi, found that the average profit margin for family firms was 10%, or 2% higher than nonfamily companies. The study measured the financial performance of companies during the 1992 to 2002 period.