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Serving a Real Need: the Jollibee Story
This is from the Philippine Daily Inquirer. Cool news story on what Jollibee is doing to help education in the country. I’ve always admired Jollibee as a company, and this is one other reason to admire them even more.
Serving a Real Need
By Tina Arceo-Dumlao
Philippine Daily Inquirer
First Posted 21:48:00 05/21/2008
MANILA, philippines–Local firms whine all the time about the difficulty of finding graduates with the skills needed to make their businesses grow.
Human resource experts say that most of the new entrants to the labor force either know too much of what companies don’t …
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The Vicious Cycle
Found this really cool video of Dane Cook. You have probably seen him in that Jessica Alba movie Good Luck Chuck. But he really started by doing really good (although sometimes bordering on the gross) stand-up comedy. Here he is talking about a discussion he had with an atheist. For all the atheists out there who may feel offended by this video, just learn to take a good joke. I’m sure you have a lot of jokes about religion as well. All is fair in love and war. hehe.
To …
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The King’s English and I
Karla Montemayor wrote this from Sheffield, England. This was forwarded to me by Sheryl, one of my officemates. I really laughed when I read it the first time and I want to share this with you. This is a good read.
The King’s English and I
Karla Montemayor
I have always had a love affair with English, and for that reason I write in this language. I’ve encountered Singlish (the okay lahs of Singapore), Deep South English (brung and y’all), Japanese English (no R’s), Ilocano English (all R’s), and I have never had …
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Iron Man vs. Batman?
I watched IronMan and fell in love with it. Nothing whets a man’s appetite more than fancy cars, the ladies, and an armor. I just realized that Batman is a lot like that: fancy cars, ladies, and a really cool armor.
Now, how would Iron Man fare against Batman? Hmmm… That’s something that can be up for debate. My heart tells me Batman should win (right Nono?), but my head tells me Iron Man will beat the hell out of Batman.
What about you, what do you think?
1) The Dark Knight
2) Kiss From A Rose
Quote …
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For Boeing, It Takes a Village to Build a New Airplane
Found this COOL article by Jennifer Alsever at BNET.COM.
It talks about crowdsourcing which is a new business idea and a growing trend in corporate strategy. Basically, crowdsourcing is all about involving the public at large to complete business-related tasks that a company would normally either perform itself or outsource to a third-party provider. It can improve productivity and creativity while minimizing labor and research expenses.
Using the Internet to solicit feedback from active and passionate community of customers can reduce the amount of time spent collecting data through formal …










