Late Finish

Had a slow start this morning but pickup up steam as the day went on.  Setup the presentation at tsinghua university – couldn’t rally do December – overcommitted – so pushed it into the first week of March – I guess the MBA boys and girls get a  bit of time...

Slow Motion – but still productive

Took another day off work today – and worked from home.  Or at least partially worked.   Had a bad cold.   Since the cold took me out of operations – I did end up thinking about more ‘strategy’ stuff. First, the corporate structure is nearly...

Cold today – but still thinking strategy

Came down with a cold today, so after taking care of admin things in the morning (mostly moving money around into the right locations) – I ended up crashing.    The funny thing is that despite feeling like crap, my mind didn’t shut off, I kept on...

Staying Fresh

Over last while I’m starting to come out to realize how the ‘top level’ CEO’s claim that they can work 9-5 – not work weekends, have a balanced life.   It was not until not so long ago that I had a hard time understanding how they managed that.  ...

A simple non-profound day

Today was a very operational and admin day (again!).   No real work in terms of huge strategic value, but a lot of operational things.   In fact, the big part of the day was spent on looking and approving invoices – from the organizational point of...

Low performance day

With only 4 hours sleep in me, it was not the most productive day.  Nevertheless, I met with a friend of Charles’s – a fellow by the name of Michael that is wired into the MBA at Tsinghua University.  The idea is to get back into the lecturing, teaching mode...