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Gifts Are Not Gifts Until They’re Given
Sharing with you my talk at the Commencement Exercises of the Multiple Intelligence Upper School Batch 4 : To Founding Directress Ms. Mary Joy Abaquin, Principal Selene Sison-Olvido, Administrators and...
View ArticleThe Best Things In Life Aren’t Free …
Somebody had broached a very exciting opportunity to me, to be an advisor. It was in line with my current life’s work, my philosophies, my advocacies, and it really doesn’t take too much of my time. It...
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Courage to Change the World
I have two Ateneo-related stories I want to share. First-up : The Tale of the Jaded Professional When I was still in college, I distinctly remember a line I picked-up in one of those “career talks”....
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Starting Out in Starbucks
Had a nostalgic afternoon in a Starbucks today. It’s not a coffee nor a relationship story – it’s an entrepreneurship one. After I had resigned from Unilever all those years ago, I really had no place...
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What NOT To Do with Your Life (a.k.a. Growing up on the Smashing Pumpkins)
so I saw this poster last week : The Smashing Pumpkins are coming to the Philippines!!! And this image, quite frankly, drove a torrent of high-school memories back to the top of the mental pile. Of how...
View ArticleA New Manifesto for Innovation
Everything i thought – and taught – about innovation was wrong. That sounds way too sensationalistic, and it probably is. But the drama of that statement is certainly rooted in truth. Allow me to...
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Channel [V]‘s V-Life on Social Entrepreneurs
Some time back, Pam Imperial got in touch through the Life’s Direction’s Community (thanks AJ!) about making a special episode of Channel [V]‘s V-Life on Social Entrepreneurs, featuring myself and...
View ArticleWhen Did You Realize You Were An Entrepreneur?
I had an interview the other day, and I received a blindingly simple question. It was so simple yet so incisive that I wondered why I wasn’t asked that question before. The question was, “At what...
View ArticleIntegrity, Sincerity, & Execution as Currency
I’ve been ruminating on the intangible values that make for a great social entrepreneur. Beyond the usual Competency 101 Profiles – visionary, entrepreneurial, business-minded, collaborative, empathic,...
View ArticleAre You An Idea?
So you want to innovate? You want to go down the entrepreneurial path and carve your own space in the universe? Traditional thinking suggests that you should start with a great business idea. I cannot...
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