NOTHING CONCENTRATES the mind more than contemplating closet space, especially when this has clearly run out years before. Even when it first looks capacious, the space is finite (you can only push hangers together up to a point). What we hang and fold there can be totally beyond the closet’s capacity to hold without groaning.

For the past few weeks, from media reports to his never ending tweets, President Donald Trump claims that the US-China trade war has ended and that it would be of tremendous benefit not only to the US but to the world economy as well.

Manila Mayor Francisco Moreno Domagoso, who’s more popularly known as Isko Moreno, is thinking of putting up a “Freedom Wall” on which citizens can express their frustrations, call on others to be involved in public issues, and post their demands on government agencies or private entities like the media and employers. Such a facility would help enhance the capacity of students, labors, farmers, environmentalists, journalists, human rights defenders, and other groups to bring their concerns to their countrymen and engage them in their advocacies.

At a recent lecture, Carl Jung Circle Center chair Rose Yenko introduced author-psychologist Jennifer Leigh Selig, PhD, a well-known professor at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara, California.

RESENTMENT DRIVES envy. But it can also be a goal-setting mechanism to focus action. Therefore, insurance and property companies publicize their top performers and how much they made and why they should be emulated (and, yes, envied) by the peasants. Promotions for senior positions also enumerate the achievements of the fortunate few, even amidst the grumbling of those passed over -- he was just in the right place at the right time.

A COLLAPSIBLE top hat that supposedly belonged to Adolf Hitler sold for €50,000 ($55,300) at a Munich-based online auction on Wednesday. It was just one item of dozens of Third Reich memorabilia in the catalog, all sold off at a brisk pace and at sky-high prices. It’s time the buyers got more attention.

“Power is a key component of any nation’s growth. Ensuring a balanced and reliable generation portfolio and a robust and responsive transmission and distribution network should be a key priority of our public and private sectors.” -- Emmanuel de Dios, CEO of GE Philippines, and former DOE UnderSecretary

“Build it and they will come,” was the old paradigm for retail. Without a physical store, a retailer could not expect to sell much. It was an imperative that to put a store with shelves fully stocked with products in high traffic areas. And thus, the management emphasis on “location, location, location.” Being at the right place was key or central to business success.

The Commission on Population (Popcom) projected that by the end of 2019, there will be about 108.88 million Filipinos. The growth also means that about 1.4 million Filipinos will be added to the country’s workforce, boosting our total workforce to about 70 million employable Filipinos. With the increasing number of employees year after year, companies must be able to provide their managers with knowledge and essential skills on how to manage different employees from various generations who are present in today’s workplace.

THE PEOPLE who oversee America’s financial system seem to think that climate change isn’t their problem. As one official quipped in recent congressional testimony, he’s “not a meteorologist or a climate scientist.”

Globally, the transformative impact for businesses to embrace and drive sustainable development is on the rise. With the age of social media, increasing levels of public awareness exert more pressure on companies to pursue a larger social and environmental purposes, other than just augmenting profits.

MOVIES USE iconic stars for cameo roles just to notch up their box office appeal. They are designated in the billing as having a special role — he will be playing himself. Ceremonial appearances too have a place in an organization.