Organizing Priorities

First day after the Chinese Spring Festival – basically a Xmas equivalent.  Not everyone is back in the office yet – so things a bit quiet.   Focused today on focusing.   Another words – with many tasks ahead – I went and prioritized my tasks...

The Magic of Being Male

The magic of being male: you can get fatter, have more grey hair, even have wrinkles and you are still seen as more interesting than when you where younger and more fit.  Luis Aguilar

Chinese New Year

This is the year of the rabbit – and the Chinese of version of Xmas is here.   Last two weeks we where pretty much shutdown – as most of China shutdowns – including banks, companies.  Interestingly shopping malls stay open all the way throughout. During...

Cool Day

Very cool day today.  Turned 42 and went out a bought a cane and a pair of reading glasses!   Yea – right! It was a great day because today we sold one of our first TaoBao to Amazon products.  We had pulled in and listed some 30 products to do a...

Team support

First day at work and have spent the whole day meeting individually with my mgmt team to discuss the 2011 business plan. I have made some very significant changes and bets on our future and wanted that I was on the right track and didn’t miss anything. The...

Meeting with Pecce

This week I spend most of the time in Hainan – with 3 of those days in meetings with Pecce. Pecce is the man I have asked to be my mentor – and this was the first trip to see if he would be willing to mentor me. On Friday, I we schedule 4 hours of meetings...