Although I know the meaning of the word entrepreneur, I always assume that an entrepreneur is synonymous to a businessman. But just yesterday I was reminiscing my past employment days when I had a chance to meet the owner of the company I’m working with. He was a foreigner, a Swiss, which only visits his company here in the Philippines once a year. That is the kind of boss I really like to have. You only meet him once a year, he he he, just joking. I always consider him as an entrepreneur and he handles his business satisfactorily but not as efficient as I would expect.
He is a kind of person that who wants to do everything himself because he was very keen in details. He wants to know exactly what is happening on his company and employees which I know is also important but managing a multinational corporation, it will be impossible to manage everything. That is why there are managers to do his tasks.
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Jollibee is the leading fastfood chain in the country and that is only my opinion but nevertheless I when it comes to fast food, Filipino’s have only one thing in mind when they want to eat out. I sometimes hear this joke “halika mag-Jollibee tayo sa mac Do” or “Mag-Jollibee tayo sa Chowking”. ( “come let’s Jollibee in Mc Donalds” or “Let’s Jollibee in Chowking”). Thinking that Jollibee is now synonymous with the word “let’s eat out”. That is how Mr. Tony Tan Caktiong put his effort to preserve and promote the brand name “Jollibee”.
On a video below from WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization), (actually I got it in Youtube) he has some interesting explanation about preserving his brand name and how dangerous it is for a business or company for letting copy cats imitate their brand name. If companies are not strict on enforcing their trademark, over time it will become diluted and consumers will be confused and will not get the quality they want. Mr. Caktiong stressed that both the company and the consumers will be harmed in the process (probably because the company’s reputation will be tarnished and the consumers will not get the genuine products). So without much ado just watch the video after this jump…….
When I was just starting to blog, I was thinking of a kind of niche that I’m intertested in and that is entrepreneurship. Why? it’s because this is the only way I know to get the freedom that I want. No, I don’t mean that I’ll be totally free from work, what I only mean to say is freedom to make my own decision. Maybe the phrase “being your own boss” makes an entrepreneur free to make his own decision and not hanging around and consulting his boss all the time.
I think there is no need for me to talk about my days when I was still in the corporate world, working there and slaving myself. It’s true that I envy those managers who take all the privilages which includes nice fat salary and having their own cars but in exchange to that they have to kiss the “big boss’s” ass all the time. That is why I never aspired to be a manager. I was contented being a staff because I know deep inside that even if I have a high position in a company and enjoying all the authority and money, I would still leave it any moment (e.g. retrenchment, retirement or simply being fired). But being an entrepreneur will serve me for a lifetime even if I don’t earn as much as a corporate executive.
For more than two years this blog have served its purpose: to be a portal for entrepreneurs and would be entrepreneurs. So to those who are submitting comments asking for information about training and supplies, and to those who have businesses that wants to help those who seek your help, you are most welcome to post your comments.
My post title sounds ridiculous wasn’t it? how can I compare an aircraft to an entrepreneur? It just came out of my mind as I was watching Betty La Fea (the Philippine version) where Bea Alonzo played the part. The episode I’m watching is where the CEO and his son (John Lyod Cruz) sold ECOMODA and bid farewell to their employees. Maybe it’s not related to my topic, but it reminded me of the good old days when my father still have his business but now it’s gone. Some of my years of employment flashed back to my mind and remembered when I was still employed. I said to myself, being an employee makes me depended to an employer and it reminded me of an airplane that couldn’t fly. You know, the kind of aircraft that only flies on your imagination. Like an aircraft that uses a steam engine to sustain itself though to air which is impossible because it was indeed heavy. Another one is, it’s similar to a toy airplane with a string attached to the fuselage and hang it on your ceiling. To make flight possible, you need an engine light enough to carry itself in flight. So that is why light metal like aluminum alloy is used to construct an aircraft engine.
To become an entrepreneur, in my opinion, you also need to sustain yourself independent from employment. Like an airplane that can fly though to air without anything to support itself, only wings and thrust created by the engine. I know it is hard and when I was still employed I thought I could never do it. In my case it was kind of divine intervention and did not do it on purpose so I can’t advise people to just jump out of employment without planning. So like an aircraft, we can learn some lesson from it. Before we can be assured of the flight safety of an aircraft, we have to make series of test. Do you know that before an aircraft is permitted to fly, it should have a permit from the Air transportation Office (Now CAAP) checked by an authorized Aeronautical engineer for it to be airworthy? So as a starting entrepreneur, we should also make a series of test before we take our maiden flight!
My post title sounds ridiculous wasn’t it? how can I compare an