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Foreign Exchange: December 2008
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Friday, 5 December 2008. In the eye of the storm (Conclusion). WE have seen the enemy, and it is us. As far as the American consumers and the current financial crisis are concerned, the above phrase could not be any more appropriate. The biggest share of the collective blame lies squarely with them, and the way the United States lives today. All the fingers are now point...
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Foreign Exchange: Market positioning 2
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Saturday, 20 February 2010. SUBIC is Gordon, and Gordon is Subic. And of course, it has business and industry too. Gordon wants to duplicate the microeconomy that is Subic, into the macroeconomy that is the Philippines, and he is building his platform on that promise. And of course, what would an election be without Erap? Brother Eddie wants to transform the country into...
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Foreign Exchange: Filipino diaspora
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Saturday, 23 January 2010. ONE of the tragic things about Filipinos is that wherever tragedy strikes in the world, one of us is bound to be involved. Click here for stories and updates on the Sinulog 2010 Festival. Sure, you may say, but so are Americans and Europeans. But with one big difference. In a way, this is something to be proud about. We provide comfort and rela...
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Foreign Exchange: Teamwork
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Saturday, 30 January 2010. It is critical that top executives of corporations think alike, and support each other’s decisions. Otherwise, it would be a very fractious and chaotic organisation indeed, where the ones in-charge at the top would be fighting each other every step of the way, and having different agenda for the future. In the case of the administration before ...
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Foreign Exchange: May 2010
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Sunday, 16 May 2010. DEAR Your Excellency,. Click here for Election 2010 updates. And yet, as much as you belong to this internet generation, you also represent the hopes and aspirations of those who belong to earlier ones. Millions like me also remember your mother’s sacrifice. We stood shoulder to shoulder with her as she marched the streets to press for the ...You hav...
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Foreign Exchange: No exchange
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Saturday, 6 February 2010. IN the 1980’s, the first shots of the shareholder revolution were fired, in the United States and in Europe. Prior to this, management boards were all-powerful, and were virtually running their organizations like total owners. Click here for stories and updates on the Sinulog 2010 Festival. The 1980s was the time when the Maxwell pension scanda...
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Foreign Exchange: October 2009
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Friday, 23 October 2009. Finex does Cebu 2. WHAT does Cebu have that other places in the Philippines do not? What does this island in the sun, with so few native resources to speak of, have that makes it stand out as a beehive of creative entrepreneurial activity? SunStar accepts donations for victims of Typhoon Ondoy. And Julie’s Bakeshop? And even among the countryR...
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Foreign Exchange: February 2009
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Monday, 9 February 2009. Are you ready for this? NO, it’s not an excerpt from the Queen song. I am referring to the path-breaking choice that Americans may have to make in the presidential elections in November. Would they elect a white woman or a black man to the presidency of the most influential nation on earth? Is America ready for this? All the way from George Washi...
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Foreign Exchange: Can we trust the Filipino?
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Thoughts (and some published material) of a Bri-Noy manager on issues relating to business, management, aikido and just about anything. Saturday, 30 January 2010. Can we trust the Filipino? IN the early years of my immersion in Western cultures, a couple of differences between “them” and “us” struck me the most. Not in the West. I remember once visiting one of the Western Isles of Scotland on a Sunday, and hearing mass while we were there. Looking all around me, all I could see were white-haired folk...
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