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 […]
Putting up a call center? Think before you leap!!!
The Philippines is one of the hottest destination for business process outsourcing. It just places a little notch lower than the India. 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 […]
The 7 characteristics of highly effective managers
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. At the beginning of the meeting, I gave a talk on […]
Business & economic forecast for 2008
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. Let me […]
2007 Business year-end-review
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 […]