The third Young Entrepreneurs Summit, themed “Be Smart, Be Enterprising,” is scheduled on 23 September 2011 at the World Trade Center. Organized by GoNegosyo, the summit aims to reinforce an enterprising spirit and to empower the entrepreneurs of tomorrow with the relevant entrepreneurship tools to help them move up in life.

There is a move in Congress to reduce the workweek from five (5) days to four (4) days. This is, however, not a new concept. The 4-day workweek had long been possible, known as the Compressed Workweek (CWW) scheme.

One of the more transparent and helpful materials handed out by the exhibitors during the 10th Filipino Franchise Show is that of Binalot (see franchise details), a food franchise which serves top Filipino dishes wrapped in banana leaves. The material reflects the following Steps in Franchising, used for our purposes as an illustration of the [...]

Malacanang has declared 30 August 2011, a Tuesday, as a national non-working holiday (Proclamation 234). The holiday is in observance of the last day of Ramadan, also called Eid ul-Fitr or Eid’l Fitr. This means

(Note: Found below is the full text of the State of the Nation Address delivered by His Excellency Benigno “Noynoy” Aquino III, President of the Philippines, at the Session Hall of the House of Representatives, Batasan Pambansa Complex, Quezon City on 25 July 2011 [English translation]. Criticisms have been flying left and right even before [...]

An “upscale, casual and quiet” restaurant in the United States has decided to ban kids below 6 years old because their “endless screams at public dinner tables are “the height of being impolite and selfish,” a Yahoo! article notes.

There’s an article in Yahoo Finance about the five things that shopping malls are not telling us. It says malls encourage us to eat and that malls now resembles an amusement park. We know these things, and we Filipinos seem to accept these “hidden” strategies. It also says that malls are a dying breed.

Outsourcing certain aspects of a company’s operations is an accepted business practice. The generic term is business process outsourcing (BPO), although many still think that BPOs are limited to call centers. Business Process Outsourcing, as the name indicates, is contracting out certain operations and functions/processes of an entity to a third-party service provider. Some sectors [...]

Fashionably late. “Filipino time” is equated with being late, so much so that arriving late has become fashionable. There appears to be a sick assumption that being late is a sign of power and importance. Those who arrive last has the most power. Try to observe this in your next business meeting.

Pabahay, bigas, seguridad, pasahod, kalsada, pantawid pasada, at salbabida para sa mga kababayan nating nilulunod ng kahirapan: iyan po ang pagbabagong inaani natin ngayon. Alam naman po ninyo, hindi naman po natin nahukay ang kayamanan ni Yamashita para maipatupad ang mga ito. Hinabol lang po natin ang mga tiwali sa gobyerno, itinama natin ang pag-gugol [...]