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Going Into Business Is Like Swimming Upstream or Going Into War
Yes folks, going into business is like “swimming upstream’… or “going into war”. It’s a hell of a lot of struggle and the outcome is very much uncertain. No, it’s not just uncertain; it’s much more likely that you fail rather than succeed.
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Tagged Filipino-Cebuano Business Club (FILCEB), going into war, Inc., micro-small and medium enterprises or MSMEs, MIT Professor Peter Senge, Miyamoto Musashi's Book of Five Rings, Sequoia Fund, Sun Tzu's Art of War, swimming upstream, taking a journey against all odds, The Fifth Discipline, walking a tight rope
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Why We Should Beware of “Proprietary Strategy”
Just a few days ago – almost right after Valentine’s Day – the infamous Ponzi scammer Bernard Madoff which I mentioned in a previous post “The Curse of the Pyramids”, made it to the headlines again in a New York Times interview when he claimed that “the banks were complicit in his scheme to steal billions of dollars.” Wow, I got struck… what a piece of news bursting with topics to write about. And here, I got preempted to make good a promise to write something about a closely related issue.
To Straddle or Not to Straddle
To straddle or not to straddle, that is the dilemma. No, I don’t refer to such esoteric financial concoction of bright boys in Wall Street they call “straddle”. That is something I don’t know anything about and nor am I … Continue reading
A Backgrounder to the Concept Paper on OFW Economic Reintegration
On occasion of this Chinese New Year, this blog opens up another page or section containing a Concept Paper entitled, “Two Wheels for the Reintegration Cart – A Concept Paper on OFW Economic Reintegration.”