An ancient chinese saying says what is most important for men is to have talents and wealth, while for the women, it was beauty.  A chinese company is taking this to be the new business model.

A Singles Cruise is being organized in Shanghai.   The Male has to be worth at least $250,000, and the women has to be evaluated according to the beauty.  Of course, the male singles have to pay a lot — and what is the prize?  There will be 30 beautiful single beauties choosing from among a thousand that will be joining them on board.

The CEO is responsible for the company, and you really want to make sure he is healthy — that is , clean of hubris. Here is a good article on what maladies hits CEOs and how to prevent/treat them.

Chief Executive Group, CEO | Articles | 12 CEO Diseases and How to Treat Them.

I was running a firm doing M&A for medium-sized companies, I saw over 12 years perhaps 15,000 companies whose CEOs either wanted a valuation or decided to sell. I was like a doctor examining a very large number of particular patients: One comes to recognize the symptoms of their special diseases and comes to learn how best to treat them.

Big Egos and Greed. These are cardinal sins of people, and especially of CEOs.

Which brings the question - would you rather have CEOs who are greedy — well at least if it means that this CEO is focused on earning more money for himself and shareholders, or would you rather have a CEO who will spend your company’s money on creating empires, and building expensive edifices and monuments to their rule?

Here is something I caught in Time’s Quotes of the Day:

” Hope is not a strategy. “  This was uttered by Senator Hillary Clinton to General John Abizaid, top commander of US forces in Iraq during his testimony before the Senate and the House Armed Services Committee.

“Senator, I agree with you - and I would also say that despair is not a method. ” replied General Abizaid.

Small Business Unplugged: Reading vs. Posting on Blogs In Canada

Recent Environics Research and Environics Communications surveys reveal that one-third (32 per cent) of all Canadians who are online have read blogs in the past three months. British Columbia is the most active blog market, with 42 per cent reading blogs.

By 2009, China will have more developers than Japan.

The CIO Weblog: 17 Million Developers by 2009 - Evans Data Corp

he projected global software developer population will exceed 17 million by 2009. Evans Data Corp is projecting a 46 percent growth between 2005 and 2009 in the worldwide developer population.

APAC region will overtake the EMEA region in 2007

By 2009 four out of every ten developers will be found in the APAC region - 81% increase from 2005 compared to just a 15% in North America for the same period