After a quick 12 hour “pit-stop” at home, to give my family some gifts I brought them from Japan, to pack again and to sleep a little, I went back to the airport. This time headed to Lisbon, where IBM invited me to participate in their Business Partner Executive Summit.

Some quick notes from that trip and event: always delighted with Portuguese food; lots of European executives speaking weak English with strong accents; fake smiles and a surprising amount of distrust amongst “business partners” hidden under fake camaraderie (is this a “European thing”?); promises to “introduce you to” and “follow up on” that never come true…