Who on earth is Stan Shih??

As I continue to discover new corners of Acer, it's becoming increasingly clear that this is a company with its own, personal history.

It's thirty years old, so it's hardly new-school. In fact, in PC manufacture seniority terms, it's damned near royalty!

Yet where did it come from?

Well, up until he retired in 2004, the man behind Acer was Stan Shih, noted as one of Time magazine's Asian heroes.

Stan built the entire group around a set of values that, in this fast-moving world of ROI, business models and cut-throat margins, seems to have gone missing...

I finally got my hands on Stan Shih's book, Me Too is Not My Style and would like to dedicate a small portion of this blog to the grocer-store owner's son who gave birth to a group destined to become the world's fourth-largest PC vendor.

I want to do this as a reminder to anyone reading that Acer does indeed have core values. It's not just about the bottom line.

While I'm at it, it might also serve as a "gentle" reminder to any detractors that Acer's continued success come from putting these core values into practice, day in and day out.

After all, if you believe in a company, its values, products and services, what better way than sharing the hopes and fears of its founding fathers to discover whether your heart is in the right place?