…or at least, they like the Tux. How do I know? OK, I never leave the house without my backpack. And on my backpack, there is a Tux hanging around. His/her mission: proselytizing for Linux :-).

When walking through the streets, it happened quite often, that girls were like: “Oh, how cute.” First I thought, they meant me - but they didn’t. *sigh* ’cause they were gripping the small penguin on my backpack.

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¹Well, not exactly, but I don’t care! *smile*

Das ist ein durchaus nachvollziehbarer Wunsch und die “Drohung” hat selbstverständlich auch ihren Wert. Mr. Brain, da müssen wir separat mal drüber sprechen :-)…

In economy, politics and companies, you often take measures to solve certain problems. If these measures are not deliberated properly, they might backfire badly and make the situation even worse. In such case, the “Cobra Effect” is often cited to describe a solution, which turned out to be a bad solution. But where does the “Cobra Effect” actually come from?

When the British ruled India, they found a huge amount of snakes there - mainly cobras. The British were in fear of these animals, and hoped to decrease the population remarkably. So, they thought about a clever solution: they offered a reward (money) for everybody, who would bring them the head of a cobra. So far, so good. The problem was: the British were not the only smart men in the world. The Indians were even as cunning as them: they started breeding cobras to earn a living of it. So the solution against cobras resulted in even more of them…

Opium ist ein regeneratives Zahlungsmittel mit hohem Kundenbindungspotenzial.

(Zailiang Tang über den chinesischen Opiumkrieg)

Der Köder muss dem Fisch schmecken, und nicht dem Angler.

(Thema: Verhandlungsstrategien)

Als Einziger das Falsche zu kaufen ist schlecht - man muss den Unsinn unter’s Volk bringen.

(Über das Kaufverhalten in China)

Planung ist die deutsche Strategie zum Umgang mit Angst und Unsicherheit.

(Über die Planungswut in Deutschland)