"Pag gusto may paraan, pag ayaw maraming dahilan" - if there is a will there is a way

It is about getting better...

A proposed deal went south and the hopes were zero.  Nothing.   It was this state for a couple of months.   However rather than sulk over this various measures were thought of:

       1.   Mortgage the property to get some funding

       2.   Endorse the project to a new developer cum funder

So the arranger opted for no 2.   They got a contractor and funder.   The funder agreed last Friday to provide 10 big 8 numbers.   We had all the documents and some of the procedures all sewed up.  

Its an example of Peter Thiel's "From Zero to One"   Before it nothing.  Penniless, It was nada, nothing.  Now we are thinking of construction projects, marketing, commissions, designs, timelines, personnel, jobs.

Really if you persist, continue, are determined, there can be projects.  There can be miracles

Leading productive and winning meetings

It is about getting better...

Rizal Philippines  | December 19, 2013

 

From Great Leadership

According to Andrew Grove, former CEO of Intel, meetings is a powerful highly leveraged tool used by a manager to improve productivity.  Why is this so?   You have a single set up -  in one meeting you are able to get across so many people on one occasion and you can collaborate/cooperate because everybody who makes the decision could be there.  That is the time for candor and action:   no stalling, no second guessing.  You can observe the body language and the behavior of the the protagonist in full splendor.  Thus in  a meeting, you can communicate, ask for action, learn from the subordinate (this is important under utilized value of a meeting)

Meetings could be unproductive too, and ruin morale if:

1.  You are late;

2.  Take up too many things,

3.  Manage individual performance

4.  Share things that are in the email;

5.  No agenda.

From Great Leadership