I wish you all Eid Mubarak my friends. May your days be filled with joy, health and happiness. I’m off to Rome for the holidays, hope you enjoy your holidays wherever you decide to be.
Sound advice from FT.com on the top 10 ways how to massacre a company, big or small, and believe me I have copiously sinned at various points in my business career as I can identify with a number of these points.
The GDN this morning carried a piece stating that 8 women will be contesting the parliamentary and municipal elections in Bahrain in 2010. I hope they all get in. I’m convinced that they will do a much better job than the current crop of MPs and councillors whose vision, for the most part, is to turn this country into another Afghanistan, Iran or another flavour of religious/sectarian extremism.
Unlike our own home-grown talented champion who still is looking for sponsorship to raise our flag in motorsports and have the pleasure of listening to our national anthem blaring when he mounts the top step on the podium, something he has already done with panache several times, Ramzi, the “athlete” brought shame to us…
Perseverance in the face of adversity is nothing new to this true Bahraini champion, as with grabbing wins from the jaws of an extremely competitive field. Hamad talks about his experiences and where he would like to ultimately hear the Kingdom’s national anthem due to his success.