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One Shift

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One Shift is a weekly email that gives you one quick, actionable shift—tested in the real world—to help you lead with clarity, courage, and calm. You’ll also get first access to books, free trainings, workshops, and webinars.


Filipino Beat

Where the rhythm of everyday Filipino life comes alive.

Pakikisama: The Filipino Value of Social Harmony

Pakikisama can build social harmony at work—but when you misuse it, it turns into silence, people-pleasing, and “go with the flow” decisions that let bad habits survive. In this article, Jef Menguin shows how to keep pakikisama healthy: cooperate, stay respectful, and still speak up when something is wrong. Practice it and share it with your team so you protect relationships and protect standards.

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Filipino Traits

What are Filipino traits? Discover their positive and negative sides through stories, conversations, and real-life examples. This guide explains the most important Filipino cultural traits—like pakikisama, bayanihan, utang na loob, and more—so you can understand how they shape our families, work, and nation today.

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Interpersonal communication

Pakikipagkapwa-tao: Authentic Interpersonal Relationships

Pakikipagkapwa-tao breaks down when work turns people into “resources,” and the cost is cold teamwork, tense conversations, and trust that slowly leaks. In this article, Jef Menguin explains pakikipagkapwa-tao as treating others as equals—with empathy, respect, and dignity—and shows where it gets misused as blind pakikisama. Practice the shift—see the person, not just the role—then share it at work so your culture becomes more human and more effective.

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Filipino vaues: Bahala Na

Bahala na: When Filipinos Do the Unreasonable to Succeed

“Bahala na” often gets mistaken as fatalism—and when leaders live that way, planning weakens, accountability slips, and problems repeat. In this article, Jef Menguin reframes bahala na as courage and faith in action, not “bahala na si Batman” resignation. Practice the braver meaning and share it at work so your team faces uncertainty with calm action, not surrender.

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