OPINION

Simply relying on our own estimation of things will most likely lead us to fall into some extreme cases of scrupulosity on the one hand, or laxity on the other. Both extreme cases are clear signs that we have not understood the promptings of God, or worse, that we have ignored him completely. We have …

A W+B Family Advisory internal research many years ago focused on family firms operating in advance and emerging economies within Asia, discovered that fewer than 30 percent of business owners have a succession plan.  Most glaringly, when we excluded respondents from Japan in the study, a paltry 15 percent of founders polled were actually prepared. …

We therefore should not be afraid to do things that would seem impossible for us. We just have to go to Christ, following him very closely, and the impossible becomes possible. God wants us to be like him, holy, merciful, perfect. While he will do everything to achieve that goal and give us all the …

Last March, President Duterte enacted into law Republic Act 11534, more widely known as the Corporate Recovery and Tax Incentives for Enterprises or CREATE Act. Certified at the time as urgent by Malacañang, the law was touted as one of the government’s critical interventions to keep the country’s economy afloat amid the pandemic.  The thinking …

Many of us cannot even stand a view or position that is different or contrary to ours. It would seem that many of us are claiming that we have all the correct things, that what we have and hold cannot be improved, enriched or even modified and, much less, corrected. This is really the height …

The Philippines is a republican state. One hallmark of republicanism is representation. Those who are in public office do not hold it as a birthright. Elective office is not a heirloom that can be passed on from generation to generation. A recent news feed was abuzz with mayor Sara Duterte’s meeting with Bongbong and Imee …

People need to eat clean and uncontaminated food from the public market. Thus, the local chief executive should ensure that the taxpayers will get their money’s worth – clean, spacious, comfortable, foul odor-free public market. A clean and spacious public market is a proof of how good a local government unit (LGU) is. It also …

Definitely, this spiritual and supernatural bearing of ours would lead us to refer everything in our life to God, to see God in everything and to discern his abiding providence over all his creation. It will be shaped and directed by God’s gifts of faith, hope and charity that, in turn, will inspire the development …

If one is a faithful participating or attending the Holy Mass, he has to realize that he is joining Christ in that very act of offering himself to God the Father as payment for our sin. It is also our most excellent way of adoring God, of thanking him and petitioning him for some favour. …

A new face, but a familiar one. Last April 22, the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) welcomed Jose Teodoro “TG” Limcaoco as its new president and CEO.  The new chief is no stranger to the bank. Prior to his new role in BPI, TG Limcaoco served as Ayala’s chief financial officer, chief risk officer, …