It has been seven years since W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne came out with a book called The Blue Ocean Strategy. In the Philippines, it is still relatively new. It is rather odd that a few companies have invested in adopting a strategy that would allow them to get out of a situation where many businesses [...] Read more »
Finding a “Blue Ocean” for Philippine Business
Ben Kritz recently wrote about how Philippine business is adrift on a “red ocean”, which is a metaphor for a situation wherein businesses are in the thick of battling it out for market share. “We are facing ever-increasing competition, and we have to reduce our prices and increase our advertising just to keep up.” The Philippine [...] Read more »
Willie Can Do Better If He Wants To
If you haven’t heard Willie Revillame’s rant over this Willing Willie Jan-Jan Controversy, here’s the video: (For the full transcript, go to Gelo Lopez’s blog.) First of all, let’s state the obvious. Revillame had every right to say whatever he felt he should say to defend himself. No problem there. We are all just exercising [...] Read more »
Willing Revillame goes on leave after advertisers pull-out
Last night, Willy Revillame launched into a monologue where he basically portrayed himself as a hero do-gooder who is being victimized by people who are jealous of his success and want to tear him down. Then, at the end of his monologue, he told the audience that he would go on leave for two weeks [...] Read more »
Commenter Urges Parents To Guide Kids On Business Transactions
Someone left a comment on my post “Pyramid Scams: Two Things To Watch Out For” and I think it deserves a space of its own. There are some companies actively targeting the youth market. Visit their offices and you will see that most of the people attending their seminars are kids as young as 16 [...] Read more »
Monique Wilson Calls On Fellow Artists To Do The Right Thing
(This is from Monique Wilson’s Facebook page.) A CALL TO MY FELLOW ARTISTS IN THE PHILIPPINES by Monique Wilson on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 at 12:12am The debate is no longer whether it was child abuse or not. The facts are plain to see. No one with a sense of respect for another human being [...] Read more »
Willing Willie Jan-Jan Controversy or Why Philippine TV Sucks
This country’s broadcasting industry should start looking deep within itself and check if it’s doing this country a lot of good or a lot of harm. It may be difficult to establish a clear correlation between many of our country’s ills and the influence of broadcast media especially television, but it’s quite clear even to [...] Read more »
TV News: Popularity Is Not Credibility
There’s a long-standing practice in local TV that I find disturbing. I’m talking about the personality-centered approach to promoting TV news. I’m convinced that this is the wrong approach if the intention is to get more people to watch the news or to boost their news programs’ credibility. The way I understand it credibility is [...] Read more »
Open-Mindedness And Critical Thinking
Here’s an excellent explanation of how it is to be truly open-minded. Read more »
Views of Grade 4, 5 and 6 students on Adding 2 Years to Elementary and High School in the Philippines
(This was written by Earl Victor Landicho Rosero on Facebook. I’m just reposting it here to spark some discussion on issue of education. Incidentally, the Aquino Administration slashed the budget for education.) The Aquino Administration’s policy of adding two years to basic education was the topic of the Editorial Writing Exercise I gave to 40 [...] Read more »
