Dr. Cesar Mansibang

Making budgets work for you

January 24, 2025 10:20 pm

In economic value creation, the budget is a compelling factor in achieving goals and objectives. It is a critical tool, a means to an economic end. The size and level of budget autonomy, as well as the accountability of managers for performance, engender both cerebral and emotional responses that can either ignite or dampen enthusiasm, passion, and motivation.

On leading from the rear or leading at the front

August 10, 2024 10:54 am

Back then, at Ateneo, I designed and facilitated a course titled Corporate Leadership that became a hit, attracting 250 workplace-based and experience-driven MBA students every trimester.

Debits & credits of work-life balance: Equation or integration?

April 19, 2024 2:16 pm

A week ago, I interviewed an ostensible “millennial” for a supervisory IT position in my company’s IT division and offered him a nice package including potential career advancement. He was short-listed by my senior HR and IT managers as potentially befitting of the position we need. He works in the BPO industry with work from home arrangement that accordingly gave him more time for his hobbies.

Questions of value

March 25, 2024 4:38 am

“The   business   of   business   is   business,” a  classical depiction of the corporate profit maximization objective is arguable amidst   the current economic problems embroiling corporations across the globe and the demands of other corporate stakeholders for their mutual   well-being,   survival,   social   responsibility   and   sustainability.  Free   market 
enterprise   has   spawned   voracious   appetite   for   profits   that   many  times   resulted   in economic inequalities and social turmoil in societies.

Questions of value

March 24, 2024 3:43 pm

“The business of business is business”, a classical depiction of the corporate profit maximization objective is arguable amidst the current economic problems embroiling corporations across the globe and the demands of other corporate stakeholders for their mutual well-being, survival, social responsibility and sustainability.