Sun Tzu was a legendary military strategist in ancient China and he is the author of the famous book, The Art of War. He was a master of “soft power” and the father of “agile warfare.” Whenever possible, he preferred to win without fighting or, at the very least, to win the easiest battles first.

Turning 30 can be a turning point in a person’s life, and career. It’s the point where career goals start setting in and the hunger to land a spot in the corner office increases.

My first day at Google in 2011 felt a bit like joining Hogwarts: you’re excited and not entirely sure what you’ll be doing! I was happy to do anything and learn in the process! For the next two years, I was lucky enough to train Google employees on Gmail and to pitch Gmail to companies…

Every traveler has baggage. No matter the length of the trip—be it a weekend beach getaway or a three-week Himalayan trek—you’ll need to pack a bag, and you’ll want to pack it right. Enter: the editors at Travel + Leisure, here to share their genius ways to keep your cosmetics spill-proof, your souvenirs safe, and…

In order to meet APEC’s Bogor Goals for free and open trade and investment in Asia-Pacific, APEC member economies follow the strategic roadmap as agreed by APEC Economic Leaders in Osaka, Japan in 1995. This roadmap is known as the Osaka Action Agenda.

It is, without question, my favorite day of the semester—the day when I teach my MBA students a negotiation exercise called “Honoring the Contract.”

by Bruce N. Pfau, APRIL 07, 2016, https://hbr.org/2016/04/what-do-millennials-really-want-at-work?utm_campaign=harvardbiz&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social Saturday Night Live recently featured a sketch poking fun at Millennials. It opens with a young woman frantically texting on her iPhone, approaching her boss and asking for a promotion. The boss asks how long she’s been with the company. She replies, “Three days.”

The recent second round of household assessment for Listahanan or the National Household Targeitng System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) showed that a total 1,511,320 beneficiaries of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program have improved their status to “non-poor”.

The world economy is continuing to recover but it’s still at a delicate stage, IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde has warned.

Imagine this: you publish a blog post that you’ve worked for a full week on. You wrote it, re-wrote it, edited it, and fine-tuned it and now you’re ready to share it with the world. Naturally, you send a proud announcement to your email list. Only to find that just a few of them even…

Many of my clients assume they should be eating fresh, raw produce to reap the most health perks possible. But the reality is, several studies have debunked conventional wisdom about the best ways to store, prep and cook fruits and veggies. Check out these science-backed tips for getting the most nutritional bang per bite from…

The road to the establishment of the ASEAN Community began in 2003 through the Declaration of ASEAN Concord II in Bali, Indonesia, otherwise known as the Bali Concord II. In 2003, with the increasing interdependence between and among ASEAN countries and as a response to the ASEAN Financial Crisis, the ASEAN members declared the establishment…

In my new book Negotiating the Impossible, I offer numerous principles and tactics for negotiating effectively when things get ugly — especially when you don’t have sufficient “money or muscle” to use as leverage. This could be a deadlocked deal, an escalating conflict, or any situation where there is mistrust, antagonism, or a seeming unwillingness…

THE LEADERSHIP DISPUTE hounding the Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) seems far from over, as the faction of Ruben D. Torres rejected the elections held recently by the country’s largest labor organization.

The new wave Surprisingly little is known about the causes of inequality. A Serbian-American economist proposes an interesting theory IT’S a golden age for studying inequality. Thomas Piketty, a French economist, set the benchmark in 2014 when his book, “Capital in the Twenty-First Century”, was published in English and became a bestseller. The book mapped…

By Czeriza Valencia (The Philippine Star), April 24, 2016 MANILA, Philippines – The government should reassess the structure of the employment facilitation component of its Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) to address the low take-up and meager contribution to the manpower needs of the country, state think tank Philippine Institute of Development Studies (PIDS) said…

FILIPINO firms are having difficulties hiring competent and skilled technical and professional personnel and call-center agents, according to the latest data from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

The population in the Philippines has grown five times to 100 million since 1950, while GDP has grown only 1.7 times. In this staunchly Catholic country, 12-year-olds can have consensual sex, but older teens need parental permission to get contraceptives.

The Philippines is among the top 10 countries in the world that have the largest number of underweight men and women, according to a recent report published in the peer-reviewed medical magazine The Lancet.

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Metro Manila (CNN Philippines) — Although the Philippine economy has grown by 6.2% on average since 2010, the Asian Development Bank (ADB) believes that youth unemployment is a “policy challenge” for the government.

MANILA, Philippines – The Information Technology and Business Process Association of the Philippines (IBPAP) has identified a new set of areas outside Metro Manila and Metro Cebu to serve as the country’s next information technology and business process management (IT-BPM) hubs.

Oil declined, as rising US crude stockpiles kept supplies at the highest level in more than eight decades. Futures slid as much as 1.5 percent in New York, after closing little changed on Wednesday. Inventories expanded for a seventh week to 534.8 million barrels, according to a report from the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Imports…

THE Pinoy middle class is already living the life that the majority of Filipinos can only dream of living in 2040, the National Economic and Development Authority (Neda) said.

THE DEPARTMENT of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has released the guidelines for its assistance and financial programs for Higher Education Institutions (HEI) employees who will be displaced due to the implementation of the K to 12 program.

THE PHILIPPINE ECONOMY is poised to expand faster than regional averages in the next two years, according to the Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest projections, even as forecasts were clipped in the face of a “highly uncertain” external environment that weighed on prospects across the region.

The Regional Report on Nutrition Security in ASEAN highlights the challenges of child nutrition in the region, including the double burden of malnutrition

Skill mismatch is one of the main challenges faced by economies. Empirical evidence shows that, in far too many cases, workers are not well-matched with their current jobs. Some are over-skilled for their current jobs – they are capable of handling more complex tasks and their skills are underused – while others are under-skilled for…