Hitting the wrong targets.
The target is zero death.
Life is more than just a number.
One death is too many.
4 Percent Rule of Productivity
The 4 Percent Rule of Productivity will help you thrive. I will tell you why and how you can use it. You can use it for your own development. Use it at work. Use it in almost everything you do. You may work on 100
You are in control.
Many Filipinos find themselves helpless.
Some say that they no longer know the days of the week.
Every day seems to be the same.
Everything is figurable.
Everything is figurable. You can start before you are ready. I don’t debate with people who say that they are waiting for the right time. Waiting must have worked for them. Waiting for the right time does not work for me. This is why I
Earnest Leaders Speak to Connect
Connect rather than impress. The shortest distance between two persons is authentic communication. A person who always aims for an impression is insecure. And maybe you are. You cannot erase insecurity by showing off. A show-off is deemed selfish. Everyone will smell you. The wiser
What I have learned from Kobe Bryant
Kobe Bryant played his best, every time. It does not matter whether he was number 1 or number 2 on the team. He gives his best every time. And though I was not a fan, I surely know who he was and what he did.
Start before you are ready.
The best step to write a book is not trying to write but to write. Daily. In the number of hours you want. Until you get done.
Find creative people.
The next time you promote someone to leadership, find creative people. Make it your criterion number 1. Though you can “train” people to be creative, it takes time. Find people who have creative habits. And if you cannot find them, get them from outside. The
Most Valuable Professional Courses
The MVP Courses are the ultimate professional development courses for workplace professionals. Professionals can increase their value a hundredfold. Without exception, I am very sure of this. But not everyone knows how to.
Intrapreneurs: Entrepreneurial Employees
I hold short programs to teach intrapreneurship for one to three days. You may include Design Sprint, Design Thinking, and Customer Journey Mapping here. I will add two more. Business Model Generation Business Model Generation will help employees understand how a business becomes profitable. They
Amateurish Branding
Be careful about how you promote yourself. You can fool search engines, but you cannot fool intelligent people. You can claim one thing and they will see another. Okay, let me become more specific. I was at the UPLB yesterday to fetch my wife. I
My mission.
I help Filipinos grow great organizations. This is why I design easier, simpler, and quicker solutions to help creative leaders solve challenges in the workplace today.
And together, we co-create opportunities so they become ahead of what’s possible.
Build A Team of Innovators
It is easy to think that an individual innovator causes everything to change. This is not true. Innovators are always working with other innovators. Celebrity innovators are the faces of the organization. But those who made things happen are the people who work with them.
3 Simple Solutions to Traffic Congestion in Metro Manila
Buses came and went. I was not able to get into one even after 75 minutes. There was no more space between passengers at both doors.
It was a pitiful sight.
And two days ago, the President said that there is no way to solve the traffic congestion in Metro Manila. Two weeks before that, his aid, Senator Bong Go declared that only Superman can solve the traffic crisis in EDSA.
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You are just one talk away.
You are just one talk away to change the world. You have stories to tell that only you can give. Don’t let your story die in you. Don’t let your story die with you.
When leaders lack malasakit
Malasakit is a superpower. When you have an abundance of malasakit at work, profit overflows.
Malasakit works.
Leadership experts talk advocate people-centered organizations. I think that the fastest way to do that is to promote a culture of malasakit.
Malasakit works at work. It takes a person to show malasakit. All work is personal. Let your people recognize their human-to-human connection.
10 Reasons Why Power Trippers Rule (and Ruin) the Workplace
A power-tripper rules because she hits you at your weakest spot. For Maria, the education and care of her children are far more important than fighting for her rights.
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Outsmart Power Trippers Without Losing Your Cool
Imagine this. You’re delivering your best at work—hitting goals, getting recognized. Then comes the “power tripper,” strutting around with authority they barely earned, injecting unnecessary drama. We’ve all seen it in the Filipino workplace: someone who treats every small task like a badge of supremacy.
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Hope for the best?
Being clear what you want people to deliver raises the possibility of being positively surprised.