Many of my colleagues pride themselves on their ‘busyness’. They always show me how full they are - instead of showing me how they are prioritizing, and what are the results of their efforts.

Nothing gets done because the person is just ‘busy’, trying to tick his tasks off the list rather than prioritizing, and ignoring the less important tasks.

We are all so busy because everyday, more and more people and tasks scream for your attention. No matter how fast you are, if you cannot ignore these, you will be overwhelmed.

Tick Tock: Tips for Allocating Your Time | The View from Harvard Business | BNET.com

Do you spend your work time as effectively as you could? Let me answer for you. No.

Whether you are a CEO or front-line manager, we all squander our most valuable resource — time — like an untuned automobile wastes fuel. Our time to create real value for the organization gets chipped away by everything from having to answer trivial e-mail to putting out petty corporate fires.

This is a positive news. I have heard Jeff several times, and he is undoubtedly one of the visible Microsoft executives. Having him in the foundation means that he will less likely be hired by competitors, and moreover, a foundation, especially the size of the Gates Foundation needs a good CEO.

It is as hard to give money effectively as it is to earn money….

I hope in my lifetime, I will have time to retire and probably put some years into giving back to community full time.

Microsoft exec Jeff Raikes to run Gates Foundation - Yahoo! News

The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation said Monday that Microsoft Corp. executive Jeff Raikes will take over in September as chief executive of the world’s largest charitable foundation.

According to the population world clock, the world population should pass 6,666,666,666 this month.

In 1930, the world population was only about 2 billion.

World POPClock Projection

I’ve been playing around with netvibes of which their mission is to make it easy to Remix the web.

Its really cool, and you can create a virtually complete website by just playing around with RSS feeds and some ready made widgets.

In this new website, I was able to put in all my blogs, my RSS, my facebook, my cartoons, my websearch, some few games, and some news ( as well as some Diggs and twits) into one site.

check out my site, and would appreciate if you could give me your comments. and what’s more, you could easily do it too!

LinkedIn is reportedly valued at $1 billion.

Why? because of the quality of its members.

While facebook or MySpace has multiples more, LinkedIn’s members reportedly are the executive jet set — average age of 41k years old, and average income of $110,000.

So, Linkedin charges ads at $75 per thousand impressions which is scores higher than anywhere. But advertisers pay for that kind of money to get that kind of audience.

So it can be quality, over quantity.

This is an explanation not only of what made Microsoft deal for Yahoo difficult, but how you may use strategy to help a competitor.

As they say - the enemy of your enemy can be your friend.

How Google’s Checkbook Stymied Microsoft - New York Times Blog

Shortly after Microsoft announced its hostile bid for Yahoo, Google objected and raised the prospect that it would lobby government regulators to block any merger.

As it turned out, Google was very much the spoiler in the deal. But its most effective weapon was not threats or coercion, but its very effective, and unconventional, use of its own checkbook.

Google has agreed to sell some search advertising for Yahoo. And since Google earns far more on every search than its rivals do, this will mean an immediate increase in Yahoo’s profits.

I am pleased that very soon, my second humor book will be coming out.

The first book has a subtitle ” Business is a Joke, and we can prove
it”. Our second book subtitle is ” Technology Creates Morons, and we
can Powerpoint it.”

Look forward to the same irreverent humor in the workplace.

“He has allthe virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.” - Winston churchill.

“He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know” - Abraham Lincoln.

“Thank you for sending me a copy of your book; I’ll waste no time reading it.” - Moses Hadas

“He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.” Oscar Wilde.

Britain is home to 75 billionaires, up fom 68 in 2007.

Of these 40 were born abroad.  Of the top 10, only three were born in Britain.

It takes 70 million pounds to be in the richest 1,000.

Of the richest 1,000, 762 were self made.

Queen elizabeth at 320 million pounds was only number 264.

AFP: Indian tycoon stays top as Britain’s rich get richer

Indian-born steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal remains the wealthiest person in Britain, The Sunday Times newspaper’s 2008 annual Rich List said. His 27.7 billion pounds (54.9 billion dollars, 35.1 billion euros), up 8.5 billion pounds on last year, keeps him topping the pile for the fourth year running.

I am in a conference, and in a hotel. This morning, I saw
somebody passing by the cleaning lady, and just give her a very loud
good morning and an appreciative word, and the cleaning lady smiled so
much!

I resolve to myself that I should ( and I am bad in this) to show more
appreciation to all who are part of our lives, especially those of our
friends and family, and also specially those that makes our lives more easier.

I constantly yearn that people higher than me in the bizworld will
give me a nod or an approving comment, and I constantly forget that
there are now also people who work with me who are also yearning for me
to give them a nod too.