Don’t go public

I read in “Otto The Modest” (BusinessWeek, June 5, 2006) that Michael Otto, CEO of German retailer Otto Group, ‘refuses to take his company public partly because he thinks the market encourages shortsighted management.“We don’t have to come up with a good story every quarter for the investors and the press,” Otto said in an… Read More »

馬英九當總統… 可能嗎?

This was taken at the height of the controversy surrounding Taiwan president Chen Shui-bian, who was in danger of being recalled by the Pan-Blue opposition. The old man here is holding a banner predicting that opposition leader Ma Ying-jiu will become president in the next election. Does he really know better? Or is he nuts?