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Congratulations to Asia Society’s Philippines21 Batch ’09!
Bam and I gave a talk on Innovation and Social Business Entrepreneurship to AsiaSociety’s Philippines21 Batch 2009 last Thursday; It was an extremely interesting mix of people, a veritable cross-section of young leaders from business, social development, culture, and governance. We then attended the gala dinner that night to welcome the new batch and... »
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Move the Jobs to Save the Jobs?
For reasons that will be obvious, I’ll be masking a lot of details in this post : I recently met with a friend whose family business is manufacturing (let’s just call it) “Product Line X”. Through the generations, they’ve grown their company to be one of the Top (3) in their industry; In fact,... »
Fredrik Haren on Creativity and The Developing World
Fredrik Haren, author and creativity guru, is in Manila to promote the local launch of his creation, The Idea Book. With the belief that a book on creativity must in itself be creative, Fredrik made the Idea Book an innovative book-notebook combo; Meaning that it’s 150 pages about ideas (the book), and 150 pages... »
Is Money Losing Its Currency?
The cliche’ “Money isn’t everything” has never held as much truth as it does now. You see, it used to be that we bartered and traded goods and services for other goods and services. Badly put, I’ll give you ten chickens if you build part of my house. But when this great invention –... »
Innovation, Where Are You Going?
BusinessWeek just released their annual lineup of Most Innovative Companies of 2008. The ranking is done via a collaboration with the Boston Consulting Group, using a mixture of survey methodology and analysis of business results. Here’s the list : 1. Apple (no surprise here) 2. Google (again, no surprise) 3. Toyota Motor (in the... »
All Bets Are Off
These are amazing times. And I don’t necessarily mean that in a positive slant. There’s an ongoing G20 Summit, wherein global leaders are thinking through how to get us out of this intricate financial mess. But here’s the tricky part. I really don’t think anybody can accurately predict what the other end of this... »
How to Turnaround a Company 101
A couple of not-so-nice Apple news these past few weeks. Foremost of course is Steve Jobs’ temporary leave due to health reasons. It’s speculated that the next few months will show what Apple will be like sans its charismatic visionary leader. All i can say is … get well Steve! This bit dovetails into... »
Lessons on Innovation from Out of Body Special
I began the year watching a benefit concert, Red Letter Night, organized by my 2nd cousin Diane Elise. Proceeds of the event went to Red Cross. The highlight of the night was a band called Out of Body Special. It’s been a long time since new new music really blew me away, and this... »
The Death of Innovation?
I came across a relatively controversial headline from BusinessWeek’s Bruce Nussbaum, one of the foremost influencers of the global innovation conversation : “INNOVATION IS DEAD. HERALD THE BIRTH OF TRANSFORMATION AS THE KEY CONCEPT OF 2009″ »
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