The entrepreneur, according to Peter F. Drucker in his book Innovation and Entrepreneurship (HarperBusiness [1985], 277 pages), “always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.” An entrepreneur acknowledges change as normal and welcomes it. He went on to quote J.B. Say that the entrepreneur “shifts economic resources out of an [...]

The usual focus is the personal traits that make up an entrepreneur. We usually look at the person when the write about a Pinoy Entrepreneur, or any entrepreneur for that matter. This is not the entire story, as discussed in the new thought-provoking book of Malcolm Gladwell, the Outliers: The Story of Success (Little, Brown [...]

Reading business or management books, especially from Peter Drucker, seems to be easier than reading biographies. Despite that, and despite some not-so-positive reviews, I wasn’t able to stop reading the new 960-page biography of Warren Buffett. Written by by Alice Schroeder, the book  (Bantam Books, 2008) tells the extraordinary story of someone who considers himself [...]

There should be no problem when you wake up each day, all fired up, and the reason is because you’re going to work. The problem starts creeping in when you begin to question if there’s more to life that what you’re currently doing. It could be a result of burn-out or some realization that you [...]

We’ve discussed GoNegosyo under the Internet & Tech category and we’ve also discussed the book in the previous post on Succcessful and Inspiring Filipino Entrepreurs. We’ve just realized, however, that we forgot to include a separate entry for this book under the Books category. This is a significant oversight because this is a book that [...]

For whatever my opinion is worth, I recommend this book for Pinoy Entrepreneurs to read — Blue Ocean Strategy (W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne, Harvard Business School Press [2005], 240 pages), with the subtitle: “How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant”.

As expressed by Vilfredo Pareto, 80 percent of wealth is owned by 20 percent of the population. The Pareto Rule, or the 80-20 Rule had been applied in different areas. It could mean that roughly 20% of what we do produces 80% of our wealth. It could also mean that roughly 20% of the products [...]

I was looking for the book “Rich Dad, Poor Dad ” (Robert T. Kiyosaki with Sharon L. Lechter, Warner Books, 266 pages), which I bought some years back after I resigned from a Makati law firm to start my own. The book was an eye-opener, not because it deals with matters that I don’t know, [...]

Some time ago, my father handed me a book, Who Moved My Cheese, by Dr. Spencer Johnson (Vermilion [1998], 95 pages). It’s a short one; I finished it in just under an hour. The theme is about anticipating, accepting and enjoying change in work and in life. It’s about having the guts to step out [...]

A recent study shows that majority of Americans are financially illiterate. This is most probably true, if not more true, for Filipinos, although this can’t simply be attributed to the oft-cited plague of colonial mentality (which purportedly pulls us Pinoys to whatever is “stateside” or foreign), but to the relatively poorer condition of a large [...]