NEWS & ARTICLES

Leadership transitions are no longer a distant concern for Philippine businesses – they are unfolding in real time. As a significant number of chief executives prepare to step aside in the coming years, organizations face a challenge that goes beyond succession: ensuring that leadership continuity...

Many Filipinos today share an uneasy feeling: the world has changed, yet the Philippines appears to move in circles. While Singapore disciplined itself into efficiency, Taiwan transformed under pressure, and China restructured after collapse, the Philippines has absorbed shocks without being changed by them. Corruption...

Philippine small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly confronting a persistent digital skills gap, limiting their access to markets, financing, and their ability to maintain regulatory compliance. While 77% of Filipino MSMEs are eager to adopt digital tools, only 16% currently use them – mostly...

Calls for constitutional reform are growing louder, and it is easy to see why. Many Filipinos experience government as slow to decide, weak in execution, and quick to dodge responsibility when things go wrong. But changing the Constitution is not a symbolic gesture or a...

Collaboration will also extend beyond our borders. We will intensify our engagement with our ASEAN neighbors to join us, Singapore and Thailand in management excellence exchanges. ASEAN is not merely a diplomatic construct – it is an economic community of over 660 million people. This...

I became part of MAP twenty years ago – and will shortly be officially a lifetime member in a few months. I joined at a time when internet space is expanding exponentially, and as a young leader that is more enamored with the nerd side...

For decades, the relationship between taxpayers and the tax collector has been marked by caution, complexity, and mistrust. Strict regulations, evolving compliance requirements, and inconsistent implementation have often made tax administration feel burdensome for businesses. In recent years, however, a quiet but meaningful shift has...

And while we have a sophisticated banking sector, with a world-class BSP, most of our MSMEs have no access to bank finance, let alone to medium and long-term funding. Some of our cooperatives are labelled as “millionaires” and even as “billionaires”, but their assets are...

[Lifted from the speech delivered by the author as speaker at the recent Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) General Membership Meeting in Iloilo City]   Introduction   We feel much gloom and hopelessness, as many of us focus on the politics as played out...