Almost every other little girl out there dreams of becoming a beauty queen. We are a nation enthralled with beauty pageants that it has become a national pastime rivaling the fame and following of telenovelas and basketball games. In our country where chaos is the order of the day, we need palliatives to over-sensitize our senses so that we have no more emotional energy left to expend over much more mundane matters that never gets resolved.
Everybody says, “Brown is beautiful.” But given the volume of whitening products in the supermarket, I don’t think the Filipina believes it. Our billboards, movies and magazines are testimonies to our preference for the mestiza. Will somebody please...
“People leave managers, not companies.” “The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is...
We all know how miserable bad bosses can make us feel and how difficult our working environment can be as a result. However, we need to learn how to manage this very important dynamic because it is our responsibility to make this relationship work...
