Dr. Carl E. Balita

A small enterprise engaged in the business of preparing aspiring professionals for board examinations attempted to engage in ISO Certification in 2019. The company was very ambitious to take the road that even many educational institutions fell short of achieving. But it dared itself and its management to take the road to ISO Certification. And it became successful. It was the first business of its kind to have been awarded the seal of quality based on the international standards of ISO 9001:2015. 

IN anticipation of the new requirements of the new world order, we need to understand how the pandemic disruption has changed the landscape of the workplace. The most important resource, the human resource, needs to be understood so that education and training can reconfigure and redesign while the workplace retools its current workforce.  The good news is that the very technological disruption that is transforming jobs can also provide the key to creating them—and help us learn new skills to remain relevant.

On October 21, 2020, this writer published an article, Why Business Sector Should Push for EdCom 4.0. Here are the highlights of that paper—but the full article can still be searched in the BusinessMirror web site: https://businessmirror.com.ph/2020/10/21/why-business-sector-should-push-for-edcom-4-0/

ALL human evil comes from a single cause – man’s inability to sit still in a room.  French physicist, philosopher and theologian Blaise Pascal was quoted saying that in the 17^th century. In our present time, we have the quarantine experience that gives us the opportunity to be still and reflect. Yet, what we hear are stories of mental health concerns. We regret in grief what we have lost and many missed the chance to savor the experiences and learn the lessons. We are shocked by the uncertainty. We are tired of the limited movement in the old restless world. The social media that provide the most infinite potential to socialize have largely become a stressful community of lies, rages, and biases.

IT has been established that intelligence is neither limited to what academics can prove nor what humans can display as emotional control and self-mastery. There is a form of intelligence that determines if one can go pass through the turbulence of life and ascend towards success and happiness, no matter what. This intelligence is called adversity quotient.

Puerto Galera was called a paradise in the early days of modern Philippine tourism when it captured the world’s attention, much ahead of Boracay. In 1973, the Unesco designated Puerto Galera as a Man and Biosphere Reserve. It has some of the most diverse coral reefs in Asia, at the very heart of the “Coral Triangle.” The “center of the center” of marine biodiversity in the world is Verde Passage—the waters between Batangas and Mindoro. Its coral reefs house about 60 percent of the world’s shore fish. Puerto Galera is well known for its numerous scuba diving spots. In 2005, the Paris-based Les Plus Belles Baies Du Monde Club declared it as one of the Most Beautiful Bays in the World. It is the tourism municipality of the province of Oriental Mindoro.

(Warning: If you are too stupid to know that you are stupid, please don’t read on. You might get hurt before you reach the point of this writer’s intellectual humility.)

A corporation is privileged with a juridical personality, which in effect makes it a temporal being created with rights and privileges as well as duties and obligations. The primary purpose written in the incorporation document of a corporation spells out its essence of being and prescribes its boundaries of becoming towards corporate citizenship. It is logical therefore to oblige this corporate citizen to assume its social role with social rights as provider, political rights as channel, and civil rights as enabler. Simply, it is about being a good neighbor to a host community.

Concluded from yesterday

Life is not all about Covid-19. We are done hiding with fear of the novel microscopic enemy that modern science had enough time to now understand and we brace to confront it—and its variants—fearlessly.

CHRISTMAS is a beautiful tradition, especially in the Catholic faith.  This biggest and longest celebration of the year is generating happy emotions through festive revelries.  In the Philippines, its onset is in September and ends in January.  The child-like human nature finds spiritual experiences of faith in re-living the stories of how Jesus Christ was born by Virgin Mary in the manger.

IT was with great honor and privilege for the business sector to thank the frontliners, the health-care professionals, who risk their lives on a daily basis so others may live. In the words of Ambassador Benedicto Yujuico, president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the health frontliners are the true heroes of this pandemic and we are and should forever be grateful. The Gawad Bayaning Kalusugan was initiated by this writer as a national tribute to individual health professionals and health-care teams from hospitals. It was presented by the PCCI, along with the Association of Allied Health Organizations of the Nation (AAHON) and Health Educationalists, Advocates and Leaders of the Philippines (HEAL Ph), and co-presented by almost all health organizations and supported by almost all business organizations.

There is no leader if not for the follower influenced to take the road he leads. It is the follower that makes a leader. Through human history, leadership has evolved in its essence and form, but leadership finds meaning in how the leader and the followers become one to achieve the victories in their times. The pandemic experience has nurtured the nature of the “being and the becoming” of leaders. The crisis became the shining moments for some of the great leaders, like the great sailors navigating rough seas.

The Father of Modern Management, Peter Drucker, defines planning as the continuous process of making present entrepreneurial decisions systematically and with best possible knowledge their futurity, organizing systematically the efforts needed to carry out these decisions against the expectation through organized systematic feedback.