Early this month, while vacationing in the US, my family and I watched Absinthe at Caesars Palace Hotel and O at the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas. It does seem like an odd choice of combination of shows but it was interesting for the comparisons and contrast of themes we experienced. We watched Absinthe because it was recommended by people […]
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Q1: Congratulations on winning Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2012. Previously, the import duty of chicken products was 30% and it went down even further to only 5% in 2007. This was a major concern of your industry since Thailand has relative cost advantage Tell us about how you arrived at the Chooks-to-Go retail store decision? What […]
Q1: Fast food giants like McDonald’s and Jollibee have french fries as part of their popular value meal, what made you and your partners decide to launch a solo product, french fries, via your Potato Corner kiosks? In 1992, we did not know any better. We just thought it was a good idea because flavored popcorn was doing well and […]
Q1: You have expanded from a shirt brand to a tourism brand. Please tell us what was the insight that led to this transformation? I first got the idea to go into the business of selling souvenir shirts from my travels – shirts were and continue to be the preferred souvenir as they’re light and practical. But many of the […]
Q1: What made you decide to open a wholesale operation in Zamboanga? We felt there was an untapped potential and there was a big opportunity for the BIG BOX model in Zamboanga. Our primary target market were the sari-sari store owners wherein we feel they can be better served than simply offering them credit terms and low prices. We moved […]
I recently attended a kid’s fashion show at SMX Aura, a welcome break from my business conference routine. I learned that from 3,000 entries, 50 kids were shortlisted and trained to walk the runway. They were all so cute. I suddenly entertained the idea of wanting to be a grandfather. In the meantime, my family will have to make-do with […]
As a student of lifelong learning, I always search for ideas and knowledge as well as great minds and conversations to challenge my ways of thinking. I like seeing white spaces of opportunities for new methods, new frameworks and new possibilities. I was especially intellectually stimulated with a concept of a strategy book in the mid 2000s and was so […]
What Shanghai’s invisible operating system teaches us about removing barriers, building trust, and creating systems that scale By Josiah Go Shanghai, July 14–18, 2026 I arrived in Shanghai expecting to be reacquainted with the skyline. After all, this is a city of futuristic towers, luxury districts, and the historic Bund overlooking the Huangpu River. But after several days on the […]
Data is one of the most overvalued commodities in modern business. We are currently drowning in statistics, yet many organizations are starving for Insight. Data tells you whathappened; observation tells you how it happened. But only an insight tells you why it happened in a way that allows you to transform the future. To find it, one must move beyond […]
Keynote Address: PrintCon 2026 Theme: Unified Printing Industry for Regional and Global Recognition I. The Commodity Trap When we speak on the theme of “Regional and Global Recognition,” our minds naturally gravitate toward the physical monuments of our progress. The digital presses. The high-speed automation. The onset of Artificial Intelligence. These are important. But we must be careful. Because in the […]