Amazing baby photos!

Dad’s amazing flying baby photos

2013-06-09 02:54:17 GMT2013-06-09 10:54:17(Beijing Time)  SINA.com

That’s one busy baby! Emil Nyström, a Sweden-based photographer has created a photo series starring his infant daughter, doctoring the images so she’s placed in all sorts of crazy scenarios—soaring through the air on the back of a plane, slicing fruit with a katana sword, fixing a car engine—you know, all the stuff babies do. “My ideas and inspiration come from different places,” Nyström said. “Luckily, I haven’t had too many challenges. The main thing is to prepare the setup well. And because my baby isn’t too good at long working hours, if i get 15 minutes [of shots] I’ve had a good day.” And your day will be better after checking out these photos.

Korean prosecutors will chase the leader of world’s largest Christian congregation for allegedly stealing tens of billions of won in worshippers’ money and underpaying taxes

2013-06-09 16:50

Pastor Cho in trouble

Korean Christianity’s illness befalls Full Gospel Church 

By Kim Tong-hyung

Prosecutors will chase the leader of world’s largest Christian congregation for allegedly stealing tens of billions of won in worshippers’ money and underpaying taxes.
Their decision to indict Cho Yong-gi, founder and pastor of the Yoido Full Gospel Church, on Saturday was another kick in the teeth for the country’s mighty but increasingly unpopular protestant church, frequently described as greedy, dishonest and socially regressive. Cho and some members of the church’s senior leadership have fallen out spectacularly in recent years as the 77-year-old minister came under constant accusations of corruption and nepotism. A group of church elders in 2011 filed a complaint with prosecutors claiming that Cho diverted more than 20 billion Korean won (about $18 million) in the church’s fund to acquire the stocks of a company owned by his son, Hee-jun, at prices dramatically higher than market value in 2002. The younger Cho, former chairman of the church-affiliated newspaper Kookmin Ilbo, currently serving a jail term for an unrelated financial crime, had sustained heavy losses from stock investments then.

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Embracing your Dragon Boat Festival holiday which commemorates the death of Qu Yuan, an upright minister who found it impossible to put into practice those ambitions and ideals in a corrupt era

Embracing your Dragon Boat Festival holiday

Hometown of Qu Yuan prepare to mark upcoming Dragon Boat Festival

The 5th day of the 5th month of the lunar year is an important day for the Chinese people. The day is called Duan Wu Festival, or Dragon Boat Festival, celebrated everywhere in China. This festival dates back to about 2,000 years ago with a number of legends explaining its origin. The best-known story centers on a great patriotic poet named Qu Yuan. Read more of this post

Why have a ‘culture’ and what value does it add?

Why have a ‘culture’ and what value does it add?

Robert Hooijberg, Dan Denison and Nancy Lane | Business | Sat, June 08 2013, 3:29 PM

Paper Edition | Page: 16

Managers regularly ask us whether we think it is a good idea for their organizations to have a culture and what value it might add. The question is interesting because it presumes a company does not already have a culture. This is a myth.

All organizations inevitably have a culture; they do not have a choice. Its culture consists of its values and principles as they are expressed through management and employee behaviors and the organization’s systems and processes. An organization’s culture often reflects the values of its founders: Whether it’s Sam Walton of WalMart or Steve Jobs for Apple, one can clearly see the impact its founder and his or her values on what happens in that organization.  Read more of this post

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees; Many companies hand out awards such as “employee of the month,” but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says professor Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees altogether

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

by Dina Gerdeman | Jun 10, 2013

Many companies hand out awards such as “employee of the month,” but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says professor Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees altogether

It would seem to make sense that when companies recognize their workers with awards, they are likely to see a boost in morale and perhaps even inspire them to work harder.

It turns out that sometimes rewarding employees for good behavior can actually backfire, leading to a drop in motivation and productivity.  Read more of this post

Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Alan Ulsifer of FYidoctors, has transformed the optical industry by creating a giant network of opticians who bring new products and diagnostics technology to clients from coast to coast

World entrepreneurs reaffirm business is the best route to change, reform and prosperity

Rick Spence | 13/06/09 | Last Updated: 13/06/07 2:09 PM ET

Canada’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Alan Ulsifer of FYidoctors, has transformed the optical industry by creating a giant network of opticians who bring new products and diagnostics technology to clients from coast to coast.

MONACO — “Entrepreneurs make the world work better.” That was the message from Ernst & Young’s incoming chief executive, Mark Weinberger, as he kicked off the World Entrepreneur of the Year conference last week in Monte Carlo. A full 47 countries (including first-time participants Uruguay and Serbia) sent their entrepreneurial champions to the combined competition/professional-development/networking session, and the enthusiasm was infectious. Read more of this post

The Turkish founder of Greek yoghurt business Chobani has been named the world’s best entrepreneur for building a $1bn (£640m) turnover business in less than six years

Yoghurt tycoon named world’s best entrepreneur

The Turkish founder of a Greek yoghurt business has been named the world’s best entrepreneur for building a $1bn (£640m) turnover business in less than six years.

Chobani, which launched in the UK last year, has annual sales of almost $1bn and around 3,000 staff.

By James Hurley

3:48PM BST 09 Jun 2013

Hamdi Ulukaya, who launched New York-based Chobani in 2007, won the Ernst & Young World Entrepreneur of the Year competition in Monte Carlo on Saturday night.

Mr Ulukaya, who was described by judges as the “personification of every immigrant’s American dream”, pipped 48 entrepreneurs to the prize, including Lance Uggla, founder of British financial information firm Markit. Chobani, now America’s biggest yoghurt business, began with just five employees after Mr Ulukaya bought a closed factory from US food giant Kraft using a government loan. Read more of this post

Washington Post Media’s Katharine Weymouth on why running the business is tough; “You have to fail. You have to make mistakes in order to have the successes”

June 9, 2013 1:50 pm

Katharine Weymouth, publisher, Washington Post Media

By Emily Steel

New edition: Katharine Weymouth is the fifth member of the Graham family to be publisher of Washington Post Media; From left: publisher Katharine Weymouth, former executive editor Ben Bradlee, former chairman and C.E.O. Katharine Graham, current executive editor Marcus Brauchli, and chairman and C.E.O. Don Graham.

Scotch-taped to the door of Katharine Weymouth’s office in the executive suite of theWashington Post headquarters are printouts of two photographs she took during a visit last year to Facebook’s Silicon Valley headquarters.

In bold, red, capital letters, one poster asks: “What would you do if you weren’t afraid?” The other reads: “Done is better than perfect.”

The proclamations are a constant reminder to the publisher of one of the US’s most venerable newspapers to embrace the Valley’s culture of endorsing failure – a somewhat foreign notion in the world of traditional media.

“You have to fail. You have to make mistakes in order to have the successes,” she says. “We in the media are not very forgiving of traditional organisations making mistakes.” Read more of this post

Family businesses ‘need to bridge generations’

Family businesses ‘need to bridge generations’

Watchiranont Thongtep
The Nation
June 10, 2013 1:00 am

Family businesses appear to be a key mainstream of global business. But bridging the gaps between the founding and new generations is important for long-term stability, an expert suggests.

“More than 80 per cent of the companies in the country were started and operate as a family business. Once the company grows up, a smooth transition in family management is crucial for sustainability,” Akachai Apisakkul, dean at the School of Business at the University of the Thai Chamber of Commerce (UTCC), told The Nation recently. Read more of this post

Taiwan’s Formosa Plastic/Petrochemicals Heir Claims $4 Billion of Assets Misappropriated by Late Patriarch’s Financial Advisers

Plastic Heir Claims $4 Billion of Assets Misappropriated

Winston Wong, the eldest son and estate administrator of deceased Taiwan petrochemicals tycoon Wang Yung-ching, sued two Hong Kong companies, claiming they misappropriated $4 billion in assets. Hong Kong’s High Court on May 2 named Wong as administrator of his father’s estate. Wong filed a lawsuit today against Jao Chien Fang and Chang Pen-yuan, formerly his father’s financial advisers, as well as Hua Yang Investment (H.K.) Ltd. and Winson International Investments Ltd. He accused the defendants of acting dishonestly to misappropriate his father’s assets, and is seeking their return plus interest. “This is an important and humbling moment as I stand in my father’s shoes as administrator and continue the efforts to identify and recover everything that should have been declared in his estate,” Wong said in a statement today. Today’s suit adds to litigation that Wong has filed in the U.S., Taiwan, Bermuda and Hong Kong over Wang’s holdings since his death in 2008 at the age of 91. The $4 billion held in Hong Kong includes power plants in China and real estate, with Wong estimating the total value of his late father’s assets at about $18 billion. Read more of this post

The Downside of Entrepreneurial Success; They hit the jackpot once, and then think they have the magic

June 7, 2013, 1:57 p.m. ET

The Downside of Entrepreneurial Success

They hit the jackpot once, and then think they have the magic. It’s up to financial advisers to burst their bubble.

By DAISY MAXEY

Sometimes, the worst thing that can happen to an entrepreneur is being successful.

So say many financial advisers who tell tales of entrepreneurs who hit it big—only to let success go their heads. It’s then up to the advisers to somehow keep their clients from taking subsequent risks that threaten their financial future. Financial adviser Tony DaRoza, for instance, remembers all too well the client who did so well he ended up losing $100 million. After selling his first technology company and taking his second public, the client took only enough money off the table to ensure that his family would be fine and that his children could go to college, recalls Mr. DaRoza, a managing director at the Merrill Lynch Wealth Management unit of Bank of America Corp. BAC +1.36% in San Francisco. Most of the rest disappeared when the tech bubble burst, he says. The problem, Mr. DaRoza says, rests with the “gambling mentality” of some entrepreneurs. A bit of a risk-taking bent is a good thing; it’s how entrepreneurs make their fortune. But after one or several successful business ventures, entrepreneurs may begin to believe they’re infallible. And for some it isn’t just their own endeavors they’re certain of; their confidence in taking risks may kick in when they are approached by a persuasive colleague, acquaintance or family member seeking money for a new venture. Read more of this post