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Waiting for My Car’s Licence Plates—A Case of Urgency vs. Importance

I bought a new car on April 29.  The dealer via the Philippines’ transportation bureau, the Land Transportation Office (LTO), gave me the registration papers twenty-seven (27) days later on May 26.  The licence plates were finally released on June 17, twenty-two (22) days after the registration papers and forty-nine (49) days total from theContinue reading “Waiting for My Car’s Licence Plates—A Case of Urgency vs. Importance”

Solving Urgent Problems in Supply Chains

A shipping manager of a medium-sized consumer goods company is dispatching deliveries one morning.  One of the company’s trucks unfortunately won’t start.  The driver says the battery is dead.  The truck is loaded with products a customer ordered and is waiting to receive.  The truck is twenty (20) years old, and the manager already securedContinue reading “Solving Urgent Problems in Supply Chains”

What to Keep in Mind When We’d Rather Be Somewhere Else Doing Something Else

There are times when we wish we were somewhere else doing something else. We may think this while we are running around in the middle of a busy day doing so many tasks which we wonder if they’re worth doing in the first place.  Many of us started out our careers aspiring to be artists,Continue reading “What to Keep in Mind When We’d Rather Be Somewhere Else Doing Something Else”