Business Leadership Forum 2007 — Speakers
Speakers at the Business Leadership Forum included Fujio Cho, Chairman, Toyota Motor Corporation, Ginni Rometty, Senior Vice President for Global Business Services at IBM. She was followed by Carlota Perez, Professor of Technology and Development at the University of Tallinn in Estonia, Henry Chow, Chairman, Greater China Group of IBM kicked things off and introduced […]
St. Petersburg’s Most Beautiful
The flight from Frankfurt, Germany arrived in St. Petersburg, Russia right on time and there was an hour to spare before the opening reception of the Business Leadership Forum at The State Hermitage Museum. I couldn’t resist a walk to "St. Petersburg’s Most Beautiful", a virtual geocache. A virtual cache is a cache that exists […]
Norway in a Nutshell
Trondheim was a short flight from Oslo which we had reached by flying overnight from Newark, New Jersey. Unfortunately, our bags did not arrive until six hours later. In spite of rainy cool weather, we found Trondheim to be a delightful place to visit. I would highly recommend the The Palmehaven restaurant at the Britannia […]
China 2007 – Epilogue
Visiting China is an eye opener culturally and economically. It is a rapidly developing country and it appears that special interest groups do not get in the way of progress. Perhaps it was the same way when America was building the Hoover Dam or the Interstate Highway system. I was quite impressed with aviation in […]
China 2007 – The Wall
Thanks to Theron Rogers in Georgia for pointing out a "minor* error in my last posting. The Great Wall is 3,720 *miles* long, not 3,720 feet. Actually, nobody is sure exactly how long the remaining part of the wall is. As far as you can see from Balaling for sure. While some portions north of Beijing […]
