Scams

Of late I have been receiving scores of idiotic scam mails. Attached below is one typical scam mail which states that I have won the so and so lottery first prize ticket and that I am to contact the person in concern to get the money. Who the hell these idiotic sick people think I am? An imbecile nut or what? You would be surprised to know that there are in actual fact Singaporeans who has been dubbed into providing their bank account and other important contact details resulting in their money been withdrawn from the banks by these CyberCriminals!
Why would people believe such idiotic mails? I could only think of one possible reason, greed. Seems to me that some people forgot that there is nothing free in this world.


NOTIFICATION (UK LOTTERY ON 2007)Ref No: UK ON-5464K2/71Batch Number: AT-040SB06-03Lucky Numbers: 34.13.26.19.02.12.[08] Bonus Ball 22nd JuLY,2007. ATTENTION: WINNER , You have been Selected on the UK Lottery Draw Held yesterday 21st July, 2007.Our lottery program selection has finally been performed today which was held at the Garden close office.Suffice to say here,you have officially approved a sum payout of ?00,000.00 GBP(Five hundred thousand pounds sterlings) to you as the lottery winner. This amount is from total prize cash of ?,500,000.00 GBP (One million,five hundred thousand) randomly distributed among Two (3)international winners selected by our Lottery Random System Selection(LRSS). You are hereby required to contact your FIDUCIARY AGENT with below details for your winning funds. FIDUCIARY DEPT:NAME: Mr Bill AndersonTEL: +44 70457 04526 Email: draws_notification1@yahoo.co.uk FULL NAMES :AGE:SEX:ADDRESS:PHONE NUMBER: Congratulations. Sincerely, Mariam Lambert(Mrs)Online coordinator for THE UK ONLINE LOTTERY

Economic opportunity in the midst of national disaster

The Chinese sure do has ways with dealing with all sorts of situations. Take for instance the recent flood that has affected some parts of middle and southern parts of China in particular provinces such as ‘Anhui’, Henan’ and southern ‘Guandong’. It was reported that villagers in some of these flood-affected areas has to cope with incoming swamp of rats heading into villages to escape the riverbank overflows. At the same time we all know that some Chinese eats almost anything under the sun. It is thus not a surprised though that some of these people has decided to take the opportunity to catch and sell rat meats. The price of pork in China has increased recently thus rat meat seems to be an interesting viable alternative to pork. The Chinese in these areas were able to turn national disaster into economic opportunities to say the least. I put my hat off, salute and well, kudos to those who sell rat meat and those who enjoy such tasty delicacies in times of national calamity. On a footnote, for those who are interested to know more about tremendous opportunities and rewards associated with home business, go to http://www.home-business-comparison.info/0reports/The_Wealth_Formula_V7.pdf and check it out!

Cheers!
Rich

Taking that 1st step

A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. That is the famous quote from one of China’s greatest ancient philosopher. How relevant indeed was that quote is with regards with coping with today’s life challenges and achieving our goals. Quite often we have many dreams, big dreams in life but we never dare make the first move to realize our dreams because we think it is too far fetched a dream to realize in life. Unless we take the 1st step and make the first move though, regardless of how insignificant and small step it seems, our dreams will always be just that, dreams. Usually it takes great courage, and determination to make that 1st moves. Perhaps we may face obstacles when we take or make the 1st move, life is a constant struggle anyway regardless of what we do. It is matter of time before challenges and problems knock on our door. Instead of being caught off guard, why not make that 1st move and confront challenges head on first.
On a footnote, even though yes, we need to that that 1st step however we could and can always start with a single small step. As the saying goes, think big, start small but move fast. Furthermore, Lao Tzu rightfully says that we should do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.
So there it goes, one of the most fundamental keys to success in life, taking that 1st step.

GST hikes

Today is July 1st. What is so special about July 1st? It is the first day whereby GST (Goods & Consumer Tax) is officially increased from the 5% to 7%. In fact months before July 1st, some of the items for instance the price of coffee has already been raised by additional 20 cents! Never mind what other’s say, the cost of almost everything seems to be on the hike. Transportation cost has increased multiple folds. I have to top up my EZLink card more frequently and mind you, the SMRT business profit has increased despite the fact that the company has reported that it has spend more to upgrade its bus and train fleets. Furthermore public transport is not supposed to operate based on profit basis. How does SMRT keep up with maintaining the profits despite the increasing expenditure? Well it’s simple, by increasing the bus and train fares.

Singapore has overtaken New York in terms of being the more expensive city to live in.
It is not something I am proud of by the way, to live in a city that is rank top in terms of cost of living. We used to hear about how Singapore has achieved world-class standards in terms of transportation, health care and education. Are we really and truly living a in a world-class city with regards to this? I doubt so.

One of my friends works in a local computer IT company mentioned that her company is currently engaged by SMRT to develop a GPS system to track the SMRT bus fleets while on the road. It is hope that such systems would result in a more accurate and timely manner for projecting bus arrival and departure time. Trial runs were being conducted in and around the Changi International Airport vicinity.

There are proposal to install display panels on some of the bus stops to indicate the arrival time of the next bus. Commuters would know when the next bus arrival time. All this seems pretty cool; I bet the bus fare is going to rise once they start to implement this system though. Just the other (yesterday evening to be exact) I had to wait for almost 40 minutes to catch the bus service 911 from Woodlands Regional Interchange to my home in Woodlands Street 82, so much so for world class transport and high tech vehicle tracking system.

Good mutual fund

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Is it too much or too little information?

Have it ever occur to you sometimes we don’t act on something or we are afraid to act on something simply not because we don’t have the necessary information to make the appropriate decision but rather we have too much information and hence became confuse and do not know what to do?

Just consider the stock market pickers up there. Go to any bookshop and you will find dozens of those selves proclaim gurus publishing self-improvement books proclaiming on how to become the best stock traders. Newbie in stock trading would have become confuse with all the different techniques pertaining to stock trading.

The same goes for those books on how to become rich or how to become the best Internet marketers. At the end of the day it up to us to filter out those tons of information and to pick up those ideas, techniques or advice that best suits our risk appetites and expectations. What works for you may not work for another person though? As the saying goes, one man’s meat is another man’s poison. There is nothing wrong with gathering information before we decide the next course of actions. However we ought to set a limit as to how much information is considered enough and to act on it thereafter. A good analogy would be that of reading and gathering as much information regarding computer programming but missing the point of not actually getting ourselves with the actual hands on such as writing a program and seeing it runs on the computer.

In summary, set a date as to when, how long and how much you wish to gather the information of interest and after that set another timeline to act on it. As you carry out your objective, in most circumstances you will know deep down inside you if the information you have thus far gathered is adequate or if you need further information to fill the gaps. If you feel that you need further information to proceed, set a new timeline as to how much and how long you will spend on the information gathering process and a new time to act on it. By doing so you will not fall into the trap of experiencing the fear of too much information and not knowing how to act on it.

What is hard work?

There is a general misconception that rich people do not need to work as hard as ordinary folks because they have money. This is far from the truth. As a matter of fact, many rich people work as hard if not twice harder than the ordinary folks who live on day-by-day basis. Donald Trump, the multi billionaire once wrote that he sleeps less than 3 hours daily because there is just so much to learn and to do with regards to expanding his business empire. Donald Trump is a prolific reader who would spend much of his time to read as much as he could. That billionaire Manhattan business mogul understands that knowledge is power. How many of us could boast ourselves with regards to spending time to improve ourselves intellectually as compare to him? The way I see it, most of us ordinary folks prefer to idle away our time in canteen gossiping and talking about others.
There are those who would rather leave it to fate and luck to become rich. Just take a look at the crowds that gathers to try their luck with 4D and Toto bets. It is funny though that there are people who would rather spend time to queue up to buy lottery tickets rather than to pick up a book to improve oneself.

On a footnote I am afraid that the rich dad poor dad author does the general public and readers a disservice. His concept and idea that we should not trade time and effort for money earn is rather misleading. Robert Kiyosaki should have clearly point out that hard work alone cannot guarantee us success in life. We should work smart. Instead that fellow goes beating around the bush in his rich dad poor dad book that we should learn to take risks and all the nonsense how he became one of the most successful real estate agent in the world! I bet if here were born in Singapore he would probably become another statistic of the ordinary folks.!There are those who prefer to bury themselves in their work and claimed they have done their best but just that luck or fate is not on their side. How silly of these people! As the saying

If only

If only I possess the skill and education…
If only I have the money…
If only I am not married and have no family.
If only I come from a rich family.
If only I am much younger..
If only I am half as smart as he or she..

Does the list above of ‘if only’ sounds familiar to you? I am sure at one time or another one of these ‘if only’ comes to our mind. Somehow I feel that the ‘if only’ is as good as useless and unproductive thinking since it does not help us to solve whatever problems and challenges we face in life. The ‘if only’ thoughts serves more as an excuse and easy way out for us to lament the problems and challenges in life.
We cannot change the past. Having thoughts of the ‘if only’ cannot change what that has occurred in life nor does it help to address the reality in life.
We must take concrete steps and measures to address all problems in life instead of indulging in self-pity. Yes, it is human nature to lament over problems we faced in life and to envy others. At the end of day, having said thought of all the ‘if only’, no one can help us if we do not help ourselves. So the next time if we feel being inclined to or having thoughts of ‘if only’ why not switches off our negative thoughts and re-enforce our positive thoughts, not of trying to change the past, instead to learn from the past, to learn from our mistakes and to face the future with confidence, knowing that success is not the destination but part of the journey.

Doing what you know best versus knowing what you do

Most of us are contented with doing what we know best. Most of us are do not like change to our life style, be it work or personal social life. Subconsciously and deep down in our hearts, we are resistant to change. Most of us are afraid that change in our life, in particular with regards to the nature of our job would displace us from our comfort zones.
There is an ancient Chinese saying that if we love our job we don’t need to work a single day. However on the other end of the spectrum it also make sense that at times doing what we love and what we know best may not be to the best of our interest. I once work in a disk drive company for close to eight years simply because I love my job. As years passed, I realize those who left the company ahead of me has gone to make it big in other companies whereas I continue to remain in the same position for the past six years.

Some of the successful people, in particular those who achieve financial wealth can testify to the fact that sudden and unexpected twist of events, at times due to company lay off or unforeseen events force them to rethink their priorities and strategy to coping with financial responsibilities. Some of these financially successful people who would never have make it big time should they continue to work in their previous company. Change of environment and new challenges brings forth new opportunities for those who dare and game enough to seize it. The rich people knows what needs to be done to achieve their financial goals, it may not be something they love to do, the middle class do only the things they know best and always afraid to consider and venture into new opportunities.
Therefore, I say that even though it is important for us to do things that interest us and which we appreciate, we should never lose sight of the bigger picture, bigger opportunities that may come along our way only once in our life time, in which at times we may have give up doing the things that we love and know best.

Who to listen to?

Insurance agents and friends who are into fund and wealth management related businesses have approached me the past few months to consider signing up and to engage their services with regards to investments, be it mutual trust funds, forex trading, equities or stocks. I am no expert when it comes to investment but I do make it point to read up investment related articles. At times I wonder if those involved with investment such as fund managers are really that good then they would in actual fact have no need to approach others to keep their business activities afloat since they would have make tons of money themselves and retire comfortably so why go around struggling to look for new leads and customers? One common tactic used by financial advisers to convince customers is the so-called past performance indicator. Sad to say, most of the time looking at past performance alone does not guarantee nor does it help us make money now. Furthermore most of these financial advisers don’t even has the slightest clue as to knowing what was creating these incredible past performance. One needs to understand exactly what actually leads to the outstanding gains if one is to hope to replicate that performance over the next couple of years.
In summary I suppose we really shouldn’t be asking mutual fund managers or brokers about managing money. We should ask millionaires and billionaires who made their money buying and selling stocks, bonds, and real estate. With luck perhaps they'll tell us what to do and I bet the chances of it working and being successful is much higher than those so-called financial advisers. Last but not least, don’t be stingy when it comes to investing in financial knowledge. Invest time and money is necessary to acquire sound knowledge of wealth and financial management. We are better off managing our own financial well being rather than to depend on those so-called financial advisers and experts.

Posted are some of the great scenic views of China that I took some time way back.

In particular I am impressed with the suspension bridge located between two colossal and towering mountains.

Proactive

It’s been quite awhile since I last updated my blog. I am going to have busy weeks looking forward ahead. Why is that so? All thanks due to one of my engineer who will be going to be station in Suzhou for a year upon an ‘Ang Moh’ request. His short-term assignment of one year to Suzhou could not have come at the worst time indeed. Now I am left with no choice but to get personally get involved in software development project and day-to-day software maintenance and sustaining activities myself. I am a technically inclined manager, perhaps one of the very few managers in the company that still prefers to the hands-on to the typical people management role. Why would one engineer have so much impact on my team? Reason being that he is the only engineer in my team that received the software training from the US counterpart. Secondly he is a very resourceful and diligence in his work. I have always wanted to get myself personally involved with some of the software development projects but finds it hard to do so due to lack of software and hardware developments system.

Well, how do I feel about the whole thing? Nothing much except for the fact that I will be more occupied in the office, busier and has less time for tea break during weekdays. Sometimes I wish I could hit the jackpot and retired early to enjoy the finer things in life. I could imagine all the things that money could buy and the holidays I could take all year round. At times I wonder if it takes certain twist of events to make us realize that life is very unpredictable and that we should make full use of the good times on what we have to achieve our goals and dreams while we can. Without pressure and discontent in work life some of us may procrastinate and not make effort to set goals to improve our quality life so to speak. Most of us are contented to stay put within our own comfort zone. We hardly give a thought to our future so long as we feel comfortable with where we are.

Which of these would you prefer, to be push and driven into seeking new opportunities or to be attracted and drawn to pursue our goals and dreams, the push or the pull factor to start to keep the ball rolling with regards to achieving your goals and dreams so to speak? Anthony Robbins, the motivational speaker rightfully spells out in his book ‘ Awaken The Giant Within’ that most people procrastinate so long as they don’t feel any pain. Why wait to get ourselves to experience pain before we do something to improve our quality life? Isn’t it better to plan for the future while we are in still living within our comfort zone? Be proactive and preemptive in our desire to seek for better quality life by, through actions with regards to our goals instead of being reactive and just daydream about it so to speak.

Overwork

The Singapore ‘newpaper ‘ dated the1st of May 2007 reported the unfortunate and untimely passing of a 29-year-old woman whose cause of death was suspected probably due to work stress. Apparently the unfortunate woman collapses after 8-hour marathon working on laptop. When contacted, the woman’s superior told the deceased family the company did not overloaded her with work! What a pity for the woman lost her life due to work! I suppose people have different tolerance to work stress. Some people are more easily succumb to work stress while others has higher thresholds. I am okay with working on the desktop or laptop for over 12 hours! Know your limits and take the appropriate actions accordingly to safeguard your health.

The woman wanted to earn more money to take mum on holiday but struggled with her job. It sad to know that despite knowing that her health was deteriorating, she continues to push herself to the limit. Yes, money is important but so is our health. Yes, it is important to for us to do our best with regards to our job responsibilities and tasks, to put in extra hours if needed to get the job done; however we should be mindful of our health. I have friends and colleagues who spend long hours in stressful jobs, some are contemplating of looking for less stressful jobs elsewhere while some has resign to their fate and get so used to the stress job so much so it becomes part of their life. There are those who complain about their stressful work but do nothing about it.
There are those who stick on to their jobs despite the stress for the sake of the anticipated compensation benefits associated with work force reduction.

I guess in the end we should all ask our self what kind of life we want to live.
Do you enjoy what you do in particular to the nature of our job? Do you mind the stressful and the challenging nature of the job? Do you find ourselves stress out by the job? Are you in dire need of money so much so that you can’t do without the stressful job? Is age catching up with you so much so that you feel it becomes more challenging and difficult for you to compete with younger generations for getting new jobs? Do you live to work or work to live? Is it worth it to risk your health and happiness with regards to your jobs? Learning is life long experience. Invest time and money if necessary to upgrade yourself so that you will continue to become employable, even as you grow older. Far more important, equip yourself with the necessary skill-set that would enable you to have more choices with regards to job opportunities.
Bottom line, don’t get yourself stuck in a job you don’t like, don’t yourself get stuck in a stressful job that is detrimental to your health and disruptive to your personal life, and certainly please don’t get yourself stuck in the kind of job that does not guarantee you financial freedom and financial independent when you grows old.
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Busy week

It’s been a rather busy week for me of late. Spend most of the time responding to emails to clarify situations and to get myself untangle from the ugliness of office politic situations. Sometimes it is just hard to ignore office politics because whether you like it or not, someone may just get you involved in one-way or another.

I have been busy the past few days after knocking off from office to meet up with friends and colleagues to discuss on possible tie up to develop business web sites. Nothing-concrete being size up to date. What’s interesting though is the tremendous opportunity with regards to promoting products and services via the Internet it’s been quite awhile since I last do any Internet web site programming. I am not a solid programmer though; it’s been years since I last did any hardcore software programming. I love programming.I consider myself fairly knowledgeable with regards to software programming, it takes time for me to refresh and get familiarize with new software technology, the syntax and last but not least the commitment and the determination to accomplish on the goals that I have set.

Maintaining healthy skin complexion.

I usually receive compliments from people who said that I look amazingly young for my age of 43. It is almost impossible to guess my age by my look. Many women wonder if I have any special secret for maintaining my smooth complexion in particular my face. Quite a number of people in particular ladies spends hundreds and to some extend thousands of dollars to seek treatment for their skin problems. Facial care and beauty skin treatment is big business with profits surmounting to hundred of thousands of dollars being made throughout the cosmetic industries. Do I have any secrets with regards to maintaining a good complexion? The answer is a definite no. So how do I keep my skin in good health condition? The answer is as simple as pure ‘A’, ‘B’ ‘C’.

Here they are:

1) No smoking and no drinking
2) Drink plenty of water
3) Have adequate rest (quality sleep)
4) Avoid touching your face with your finger. If your face itches for any reasons, use an antiseptic wet facial tissue to clean it and apply anti itch facial cream or pimple cream. Make sure your hands or fingers are clean before you apply the cream or lotion.
5) Avoid intake of oily food
6) Take plenty of fruits and vegetables
7) Wash your face with warm water first, thereafter apply the appropriate face wash such as facial scrubs or foams, work through your face slowly and massage gently and then finally use cold water to rinse it off thoroughly.
8) Use clean tower to dry your face.
9) Make sure your pillowcase is clean. Change your pillowcase and pillow cover regularly. Having dirty pillowcase in close contact with you skin and face is surely an invitation to outbreak of pimples and skin rashes.
10) If you are a female and you notice that your facial skin itch and pimples relates to your period or menstruation, my advice to you is to go and see a doctor or a skin specialist. Hormone changes and imbalance could result in skin irritation and itch. Your doctor will be able to recommend and prescribed the necessary medicine for you in this case.
11) Clean the pollutants and dirt from my face with the SG-2000 hydro bath spa. The ultrasonic wave, the ozone and far infrared emission by the SG-2000 helps to get rid off the dirt, gems and pollutants from my body, in particular the face. Daily work pressure could impact your health. Use the SG-2000 to de-stress yourself in the evening before you call it off a day.

There you go, simple steps to maintain a healthty and smooth complexion! Why spend and waste your money seeking expensive cosmetic treatments? Forget about botox and other facial treatments.

When MLM is not suitable for you?

Go get yourself a discern job and forget about those MLM which are nothing but scams and illegal business methods to con you off your money and time. Are you in for MLM or are you against it?
Never mind what others think or say, if you aspire to setup and run your own business, in particular home business do give yourself a chance to consider MLM.However to be successful in the MLM business you need to honestly assess yourself if you are cut out for it.

All successful MLM achievers possess certain characteristics.If you are an introvert, not sociable, sensitive to what others may say about you or if you prefer a nine to 5 o’clock kind of job than MLM is definitely not suitable for you.
If you have tendency to procrastinate, do not like to set timeline to achieve the goals that you have set or perhaps do not have any specific goals in life than MLM is not suitable for you either. If you are comfortable with where you are and simply just looking for some activities to pass your leisure hours then MLM is not suitable for you.
If you are risk averse to the extend of not being able to accept any calculated risk leading to acceptable lost then MLM is not suitable for you.
If you are the kind of person who does not like to share good news, wealth or experiences with others than MLM is not suitable for you.
If you are an inpatient person who could not control your temper or easily get agitated than MLM is not suitable for you.
If you do not believe in the product or service that you wish to promote than MLM is not suitable for you.Last but not least, if you are the kind of person who keeps complaining under the sun about how rich others are and how you wish you as rich as them yet not doing anything to improve your lot than MLM is not suitable for you either. MLM is not suitable for everyone. Am I suitable for MLM? Maybe yes, maybe not, what about you my dear reader?

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Lesson to be learn from badminton match.

I love to watch badminton game on the TV. One of my favorite games is badminton.
There is an important lesson to be learned from the man’s single final Asia Badminton match over the weekend between China’s incumbent Cheng Hong and the Indonesian champion Taufik.

There are basically two ways to overcome your opponent in any badminton tournament, techniques that allow one to win the match decisively. The first method involves speed and power attack strategy in the form of swift powerful smashes and deep angle drop shots to deliver the element of surprise and thus catch your opponent off guard. The 2nd method involves defensive playing technique that emphasize on patience and less focus on smash or deep angle drop that requires extreme mental fitness and physical focus. You can easily tire and worn out your opponent using the 2nd method. Some opponents gets distracted, agitated or worn out if the game stretch beyond their stamina. As a result of tiredness and impatience, silly mistakes such as bad judgments with regards to smashes, drop shots and even shuttle cork serve could become costly. All one need to do with regards to the 2nd method is just simply to maintain the regular game pace without aggressive attacking play so as to wear out your opponent in a long drawn out match.

The same strategies, be it the 1st of the 2nd methods are relevant under today’s political, military and even business context. Access your own capability and standing position with regards to your ability to challenge and beat your opponent confidently; apply the appropriate method accordingly. Half the battle is won if you know your enemy and apply the appropriate method to best overcome your opponent in the least physical and mentally taxing game play. If necessary you may also with to combine both methods to achieve maximum results. Apply the 2nd method to wear off your opponent strength and setup for the kill using method 1.
Small and medium enterprises can strive and compete with global and giant competitors if they play their cards right. Modern business strategist recognizes the relevance and importance of deploying Sin Tzu’s art of war strategy in order to survive in today’s unforgiving and fast pace business world. It is no longer adequate and advisable to compete with the big players direct head on. Create a niche market whereby you can grow your business initially without having to directly compete with the other major players. Conserve and multiply your business cash flow by serving dedicated customers and thereafter expand your business to compete with other direct competitors when the time is ripe. Plan your business strategy carefully and execute it promptly. Keep a close watch on the progress of your startup business and made the necessary adjustment and fine-tuning accordingly to ensure you stay on course to achieving your objectives and goals.

Defensive winning

Everyone has his or her own perception of what winning means. For some winning means getting what they want in life and entails some form of struggling or challenges or perhaps even a little bit of luck so to speak to achieve their objectives and goals. Most people would easily and readily associate winning with cash prize rewards such as striking the jackpot, lottery, grand lucky draw prize or any form of gains that enhance wealth. There are those who would prefer to look at winning from a bigger perspective.
These include successful businessmen who understand that to win is to willing to take calculated risk in one way or another in order to achieve the ultimate goals whatever it is. If one is able to minimize risk and increase success chances than winning is assured ultimately. Not everyone would agree with such definition of winning though.

Those who acquired wealth through investment knows that it is impossible to time and beat the stock market all the time. The stock market is rather unpredictable and volatile. It is very risky and costly to try to time the stock market. How much and how big we make and gain depends not on how much and how frequent we beat the stock market during the good times rather how badly we lose during the worst time. We may have running streaks of winning and beating the stock market but one major bad investment to wipe off all our previous gains. The art of defensive winning involves the application of strategy to limit loses during unexpected bad times while focusing on winning.

Making money online

Do you wish you could make money online? No doubt there are a plethora of advice given by many Internet marketing gurus around the world what you may not know or aware though is that 9 out of 10 start up online business or e-commerce business so to speak do not last more than 5 years or even if they do last they hardly break even at all. Having said that it does not mean going into Internet business is risky. As a matter of fact millions if not billions of dollars of transactions are done via the Internet daily. With the job market getting tighter and age catching up for some of us including me of course, the Internet offers immense opportunity for one to start business. Here’s a link on information regarding making money online. Enjoy reading and hope it would be of use to you.http://www.12makemoneyonline.com/

Cheers
Richard

It is not what you know that matters rather who you know.

I just got to know that some of the nastiest, most arrogant, inconsiderate people in the design center of the organization which I work for have been promoted to directors.
I personally felt that some of these people do not even deserved the engineer position much less a promotion to lead important functions within the design center. All that some of these nasty people do is just talk and no action. Some of these people are very good in indulging in office politics and currying favors with their upper management.I suppose after all said and done politics rules in almost any situation.
Sometimes it is not what you know that matters; rather it is whom you know that matters.