I was at the Ayala Museum last Saturday to hear the talk of Winifredo Camacho, a Filipino Mercedez Benz) designer. He told us the story of how he became a designer for one of the worlds top German car brands. Don Jaime Zobel De Ayala was there too. First time I’ve seen him up close. One of the key questions asked Camacho was – what do schools need to do to...
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Last night both major Philippine Telcos Smart & Globe went out to celebrate the coming launch of the iPhone 4S. Since Apple is pretty strict with their products, both Telcos resorted to an anticipation party with little mention of the iPhone. The verdict, if you read the tweetstreams, is a clear knockout win by Smart. For smart – the entire Powerplant...
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In one of my talks I discussed about testing mini-products & customer development. Here’s an excerpt: This case study was taken from The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Customer Development: A cheat sheet to The Four Steps to the Epiphany: I talked about John Boyd’s OODA Loop (Observe-Orient-Decide-Act) before here & here. Lean...
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I had a rather nice talk this afternoon in my regular seminars. One of the topics I discussed was Starting with Why: How Great Leaders inspire. It was borne out of TED talk by Simon Sinek: As I browsed through Sinek’s profile, I saw this short note about him: His earliest work was in advertising, moving on to start Sinek Partners in 2002, but he suddenly lost his...
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How out talk to myself everyday:
“Enough talk. More action.”
“The habit you need to be good at – continuously excelling at what you love doing.”
“Simply get better.”
“Stop doing just ‘good work’ & start doing GREAT work.”
“No excuses. Evolve. Grow.”
I write to remind myself.
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