Ben D. Kritz
In his column earlier this week, my colleague Mike Wootton made a critical observation: “If the Philippines is to develop as it should, then aside from regularizing the awful corruption, the politico-big business relationships [which nobody seems to talk about very much], allowing a middle class to grow to a size of real influence and power, and adjusting the educational system to encourage challenge and independent thought, there is a crying need for more professional and merit-based senior management which works together as a team toward shared objectives.”