Tuesday, February 14, 2012

Chris Breezy---Was the Decision Easy?

So a British girl tweeted that she would let Chris Brown beat her up anytime and the United States Twittersphere blew up with tweets of rage headed in her direction..(read the story and analysis here)

But what's the real issue at hand? How long should Chris Brown be outcast for what happened between Rihanna and he? It appears as if she forgave him, why shouldn't we? And if not "forgive" him, how long will it take for us to get over it?

Furthermore, how did the marketing team at the Grammys decide about whether to let him back on the show? Did they say "two years is enough?", "young women (18-25) will watch the show if he performs but older women may not watch his performance", "it'll bring us some publicity", "music is music--he deserves to be here, and what he did two years ago doesn't matter" ? Perhaps we'll never know.

I'll tell you--I have enough on my plate that I didn't flip out about seeing Chris Brown perform twice at the Grammys. Nor did I put a vile insult directed to a British tweeter in 140 characters or less.

CEO = M.E.E.T.I.N.G.S.

Just finished going over an interesting read that showed a study on the workweek of the average corporate CEO. The study found that CEOs for the most part spend 18 hours of a 55-hour work week in meetings and about 4 hours taking phone and conference calls---just when you thought being a CEO was tough work....

The report also infers that having a CFO or COO makes it a bit easier on the CEO--he/she can afford to miss a few hours of meetings because they will fill him/her in.

Business school researchers say the amount of meeting time isn't surprising because the main function of a CEO is to "manage employees and meet with customers and consultants."

Well, maybe I should rethink my career future.... 18 hours of sitting in meetings is quite daunting. I get bored to death after 5 minutes of watching a group presentation.