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The New Year鈥檚 Guide to Living
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January 3, 2023
First order of the day is to look at the New Year as a time to change. January is when it is easiest to start a new habit, a new goal or even a new lifestyle.   But more than just our personal decisions to...
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How to be a Techie
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December 27, 2022
It is never too late to liberate yourself from an assistant. And take things into your hands. It is the best thing you can do to keep your brain healthy.   Executives are spoiled in that they do not even need to think of bills,...
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Addressing High Inflation in the Philippines
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December 20, 2022
This policy memo was submitted to the Harvard Kennedy School as final requirement to API 121 Recession, Growth and Macroeconomic Policy under Professor Karen Dynan. A copy of this was forwarded to the Department of Finance, the Senate and the House of Representatives for their...
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3 Life Lessons for the Next-Generation Leaders and Managers
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December 13, 2022
When I learned that I was nominated for the 鈥溙切拇組anagement Man of the Year鈥 Award, I asked if I could be withdrawn from consideration.   I didn鈥檛 think I had done anything extraordinary to deserve the nomination.   You see, Washington SyCip, Cesar Virata,...
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Foreign retailers and investors in Philippine retail trade
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December 6, 2022
The legal topography in the country鈥檚 retail trade sector has become obscure with the promulgation of the Twelfth (12th) Regular Foreign Investment Negative List (RFINL) in the last month of President Rodrigo R. Duterte鈥檚 term of office, since it includes in its 鈥淣o Foreign Equity鈥...
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How SMEs can manage fluctuating peso values better
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November 29, 2022
This year鈥檚 most harrowing economic trend, following the accelerated rate of inflation, is the depreciation of the Philippine peso against the US dollar. The local currency hit 鈧50 to $1 dollar in July 2022 and continued to depreciate, eventually dropping to 鈧59 in September and...
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Focusing on What Matters – A Tax Regime Proposal
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November 22, 2022
鈥淔ocus on what matters鈥 isn’t only a phrase that applies to maintaining a proper work-life balance or just bettering your life in general.聽 This phrase is also the key to improving our tax administration.   Under the 2021 BIR Annual Report (the latest as of...
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Inclusive Business for an Inclusive ASEAN
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November 15, 2022
Last聽 November 8聽 to 13, 2022, the 40th and 41st ASEAN Summit was held in Cambodia with the theme “‘ASEAN A.C.T: Addressing Challenges Together,鈥 underscoring ASEAN’s spirit of “Togetherness” as one community and the common will in its collective endeavor to address and overcome challenges...
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The Generational Shift: Mindsets, Motivations, Management
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November 8, 2022
When I joined the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) in 2009, I was 33 and president of Pacific Sun Solutions. I wondered what 糖心传媒could do for me as a young female CEO.   Thirteen years later, it鈥檚 2022, and I am happy to...
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