Archive for the 'Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership' Category
It has been said that one way to build wealth is find the next hot trend and introduce innovative products into that trend in order to get a substantial portion of market share just as what Bill Gates did to the Computer operating system, Steve Jobs did to music players and computers in general and [...]
February 1st, 2008 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 1 Comment
Would you have invested with the skinny little geek?
Sometime last week, my Dad asked me to attend a multi-level marketing seminar involving Voice Over Internet Protocol (V.O.I.P) products. He wanted to attend the seminar personally but he asked me to attend the seminar primarily for two reasons first he had another meeting to attend and [...]
January 25th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 1 Comment
Next to India, the hottest destination for business process outsourcing is undoubtedly the Philippines. A lot of call centers and other business process outsourcing ventures have cropped up all over the country. More than half of the available jobs advertised in the newspapers are business process outsourcing jobs. Instead of being stagnant because of the [...]
January 18th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 5 Comments
Yesterday we had our first semi-annual branch command conference. Our company holds two annual meetings in order that we might get in touch with our branch managers. The purpose of this month’s conference was to set goals and to layout plans for the year.
January 11th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 2 Comments
As the year is about to start, let me indulge you with my own analysis of the business environment that will we will be experiencing particularly for those living in Southeast Asia and most particularly for us in the Philippines. This will also involve some economics as this will affect businesses as well.
January 4th, 2008 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 1 Comment
More than two years ago, sometime in September of 2005 I saved this article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer entitled “’5% growth or worse ‘Forecast of economic ‘collapse’ in 2 to 3 years chills businessmen” I saved the article in my computer because I wanted to know if the future projections of the business environment [...]
December 28th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | No Comments
My wife’s enterprising office mate, Ms. Daisy C. Lor has sold her some slippers (Thongs) for Christmas presents.
At P 100.00 this unique and inexpensive Christmas gift is certainly something worth giving on Christmas day.
December 21st, 2007 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | No Comments
I just received this funny email forwarded message, this humorous story should probably give us a clue as to how rich people think:
A rich Filipino millionaire walked into a bank in New York City one day and asked for the loan officer.He told the loan officer that he was going to Philippines for two weeks [...]
December 14th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 3 Comments
About the early part of the last quarter of this year, FORBES ASIA released their list of the Top 40 Richest people in the Philippines. We are given a glimpse as to who holds about 80 to 90 % of our nation’s wealth.
December 7th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 1 Comment
I was in Star Bucks Club Ultima this afternoon to talk with a friend regarding a new business that he is planning to start.
One of the things that he mentioned was this unique business strategy that’s quite different from what we traditionally learn in business school. According to him, this strategy sorts of deviates from [...]
November 29th, 2007 | Posted in Business, Entrepreneurship & Leadership | 7 Comments