William ‘Bill’ Stelton is Chairman and CEO of The Bistro Group, a leading high end casual dining restaurant chain in the Philippines (with brands such as TGI Fridays, Italianni’s, Denny’s, Texas Roadhouse, Watami, Baker & Cook, Red Lobster and Hard Rock Café, among others). The Bistro Group, now with some 100 outlets nationwide, is celebrating its 25th year this year. […]
Malu Dy Buncio took early retirement from Avon in 2004 at the height of her award-winning, top management career to build another life outside of corporate. She was not even 50 when she decided to retire. She enjoys doing ballroom dancing almost daily, except when she has to run seminars for Mansmith and Fielders, Inc. and Corporate Achievers Institute (Coach) […]
Edgar ‘Injap’ Sia II is Chairman and CEO of Double Dragon Properties Corporation. His company’s four pillars of growth are: provincial retail leasing (City Mall), hotels (Hotel 101, Jinjiang Inn), office leasing (Double Dragon Plaza / DD Meridian Park, Jollibee Tower) and industrial warehouse leasing (Central Hub) – – all projected to double their leasable space from some 600,000 square […]
There are 6 questions every marketer must ask, and I will tell you that and if you cannot answer any 1 of these questions, you are at risk. Question # 1 : How do you discover new truths? How do you convert these truths into big idea? Question # 2 : Do you know what NOT to do when challenging […]
Stephen Tiu is the Sales Director of Johnson and Johnson Philippines. Prior to this, he was Head of Key Accounts in J&J Philippines, Head of Channels in J&J Malaysia, and worked in Shopper Marketing in J&J China. Steve won the Mansmith Young Market Masters Awards (YMMA) in 2013. He will share more trends during the 10th Market Masters Conference on […]
It has been almost three months since marketing legend Edwin Totanes or fondly, ET to his colleagues returned to his Creator on November 22, 2018 (Thursday) at age 61. It was sudden and shocking as we, Mansmith consultants were just on group chat the day before and he was telling us that he will be discharged from hospital the next […]
I asked the senior marketing consultants of Mansmith and Fielders Inc. to share some key trends happening in their fields. I am providing a condensed list of their inputs below. Chiqui Escareal-Go, Anthropologist.Mansmith Chief Behavioral Strategist and Chair, Women’s Business Council Philippines. 1. Chief Customer Experience Officer – The constant and inevitable call for customer centricity as a source of competitive […]
I have been teaching marketing and innovation for many years now, and I can say that it has been a source of pride and joy for me to watch those I’ve taught soar in their own fields. This motivates me to further enhance my learning and experience as an industry practitioner and educator. And since I have always been passionate […]
Henry Sy, SM and the Philippines: I wrote about SM and Henry Sy in my books (Principles and Practices in Marketing in the Philippine Setting, and Entrepreneurship: Starting an Enterprise, Having an Innovation Mindset) because discussion of marketing and entrepreneurship in the Philippines setting without SM and Henry Sy would not be complete. The legendary king of retail, king of […]
JCI Manila: I have been wanting to do a significant project with JCI Manila ever since I won the Ten Outstanding Young Men (TOYM) of the Philippines in 2001, and Ten Outstanding Young Persons (TOYP) of the World in 2002, when they submitted my TOYM entry to compete with over 1,000 other TOYMs from over 100 countries. You see, JCI […]