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By: A society where all the wrong arguments win | Filipino Voices

A society where all the wrong arguments win | Filipino Voices — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 03:40:16 +0000

[...] devoid of any REAL hope (i.e. the kind of hope that can be substantiated by a well-thought-out game plan that underpins it), it will take a lot of courage to realise that it will only be through huge [...]

By: cocoy

cocoy — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 22:28:17 +0000

a group of people who’ve got the intellectual horsepower to develop a comprehensive framework around which we can specify what we WILL expect from our politicians?

been blogging about it for awhile now. hehe.

like i’ve been blogging before… the good idea comes from outsiders. people who blog, just to name one. but to win the game, you got to get insiders in on the game plan. now that’s tough. the minds you need changing… The Palace does not see beyond their provincial and sometimes i think, imagined troubles.

By: cvj

cvj — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 06:17:03 +0000

Over here in Singapore, i see the same thing with short term outlooks and golden parachutes. The senior execs (normally from US, Europe or Australia) are imported (as ‘foreign talent’).

By: benign0

benign0 — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:38:41 +0000

Trouble with large blue-chip corporations nowadays is that their CEO’s and key senior execs are on 5 year contracts at most. So their outlooks tend to be very short-sighted — just enough time to prop up the share price, earn their bonus, and golden-parachute out and onto their next gig.

So they don’t really have enough time (or even will) to get to know the gems that sit internally within their own companies and prefer instead to hire a nice peachy global consulting brand to burn their hefty project budget over the next five years.

Kinda sounds like Pinoy politics, doesn’t it? :D

By: Karl Garcia

Karl Garcia — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:34:12 +0000

I agree that in house trouble shooters should know more about their own business than their consultants. Not only the trouble shooters,The senior management and the board of directors,as well.But I prefer that the inhouse staff should be the one talking to the senior management and not the consultants.What happens is,the consultants talk to the higherups and that practice has to change.

For startups, maybe that paradigm can work,but not for established companies.

By: cvj

cvj — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 14:19:34 +0000

They say that a Management Consultant is someone who takes your watch so that he can tell you what time it is. Seriously, being from the same industry as you, i can relate to what you have said above. It really makes a big difference if you work with “truly switched-on clients”.