“And if there is nobody who dislikes you, then perhaps you are not delivering awesome work. The average does not get any attention.” Says marketing guru Seth Godin. Excellence, therefore, attracts both admiration and scorn. Admiration from those who are secure and scorn from those who are not. Still, do not be distracted. Focus on […]

Please join me in my upcoming workshop series entitled, “Developing the Leader Within You” to be held at the Edsa Shangri-la Hotel. For more information or inquiries about the event, please contact Inspire Leadership Consultancy and look for Binky Ocaya 687-2614 / 09193824382 or click to: http://www.inspireleaders.com.ph/ Thank you.    

There are times when I have to go to our domestic airports regularly. There are so many out of town speaking engagements that bring me to the airport at early hours in the morning and as uncomfortable as this maybe it is now part of my life I have learned to live with. Many things […]

What do you do when people intentionally disobey rules and regulations? Get out the company manual, reinstate capital punishment and subject the violators to non-stop torture? I don’t think that would be the solution. Besides, pretty soon, you will have the Human Rights advocates banging on your doors. But you can deal with the problem […]

Asking: “Who caused this to happen?” and asking: “How did I get myself into this situation?” are two different things. One fixes the blame the other one fixes the problem. Some people are experts in blame-storming and this is why they never recover. Others learn from mistakes and this is why they succeed. The question […]

You and I know very well that resistance to change is always one of the inhibitors of progress. And this point is best illustrated by a historical event that happened in the field of basketball. From the Signs of the Times courtesy of Pacific Press comes this beautiful story. Do you know that on the […]

Robert was so excited about his promotion to Vice President of the company he worked for and kept bragging about it to his wife for weeks on end. Finally she couldn’t take it any longer, and told him, “Listen, it means nothing, they even have a vice-president of peas at the grocery store!””Really?” he said. […]

I was doing my 2nd day training of our 2 day John Maxwell Leadership Workshop and Seminar to some of the budding leaders for a very huge business organization and I talked about good leaders being big enough to apologize for their mistakes and earn the respect of his or her people. Yes Virginia, even […]