Sunday, May 17, 2009

Healers of Depression

The world economy is at its worse, since the great depression of the 20th century. Nations around the world can feel this impending crisis that could result to a catastrophic world disorder. And the Philippines is no exemption to this shocking reality.

What the world needs now are entrepreneurs, individuals with the ability to come up and determine the proper combination of the resources available in his environment transforming this into an output of either goods or services obtaining a fair profit at the price he fore sees. He uses several factors (factors brought about by his education and his keen observation and interaction with his social and natural environment) turning his ideas into profitable products or service for the good of humanity.

* Entrepreneurs turn problems into something positive, analyzing them and turns them into something profitable, discarding the problem and creating a demand that had not existed before.

* Entrepreneurs are people with creative ideas, innovators, change advocates that deals with social problems, converting them into profitable ventures uplifting society’s way of living leading to productivity and progress.

* Entrepreneurs apply total quality management on all his works, he ensures to have something done right the first time. He organizes, manage and combine all the factors of production.

* Entrepreneurs are risk takers. He carefully calculates risk and is willing to invest his resources in an idea that he formulated, confident that his idea – brought about by an intensive research and development- would help uplift human living conditions.

* Entrepreneurs desire to make profit and makes use of additional resources for expansion and diversifying into other endeavors.

* Entrepreneurs are business administrators, team players, opportunity seekers, creative individuals, who are independent, self confident, and with ethical values that understand every human ethical standards, without discrimination of religion, race or social status.

* Entrepreneurs generate employment, they eradicate poverty, hunger and ensure social balance.

* Entrepreneurs are visionaries, they believe in what they do.

What the world need right now are people with entrepreneurial mindsets, builders of society, creators and innovators of modern culture and science. The world economy is sick, and it needs immediate attention. And entrepreneurs can help solve this crisis.

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Apay Ngata? ( Why? )

Filipinos are a race of deversified cultures that has a mix of oriental and western culture. A paradise rich in natural resources and a habitat fit for a king seeking refuge in times of wandering and escape from his kingly choirs.

Spain for more than 300 years settled and dominated the culture and social attitudes of the Filipinos, converting them into catholics of which the impact still continues up to now, the Philippines being a Christian dominated population.

Americans liberated the Philippines from Mother Spain and influenced the Filipinos with their westernly attitudes, introducing them to a world of innovation and civilized social upliftment until now.

Japan, although having a short stint as invaders of the Philippines, somewhat influenced Filipinos with their ethical values and way of living.

Chinese, Malaysians, Indonisians, Paskistanis, Koreans, Canadians, Africans, Swedes, Australians, Germans.... the list go on, name a nation and you see their influence in the Filipino way of living.

Mentioning this scenario, the Filipino people have all the qualifications of being a rich, super power nation just like Japan and the rest of the Global Group of 7. It is like a perfect soup having all the ingredients. A nation filled with races from different nationalities, a mixture of oriental and western civilization.

The Philippines have supremely rich environmental and human resources. We have the vast lands for agricultural production, feeding our nation without depending from outside sustainance. We have brilliant minds and innovators, harnessing the power of renewable energy such as the sun, the wind and water to eliminate the glitch in our current power crisis, not mentioning geothermal and oil reserves that can be of good use for a nation aiming at attaining economic progress. These are the pillars of an economically and socially balanced society.

So why then is the Philippines poor?

Apay ngata?