Rodent Regatta

Bill Gates recently held his annual CEO Summit. He selects 100 CEO’s to attend a 2-day conference at Microsoft. InformationWeek did a pretty good job of covering the Summit.

This article has excerpts from Bill Gates’s discussion of how he uses email on a day-to-day basis. The full transcript of Gates’s remarks is here.

Then, there is this article about Jeff Raikes, a Group VP at Microsoft, meeting with a smaller group of the CEO’s to talk about how I.T. is and is not meeting needs in their businesses. One of the most telling remarks in this story concerns Raikes’s use of three tablet PC’s to manage his work. Some of these CEO’s are still wrestling with email as a productivity drain in their companies.