A 1 Business Leadership

Leadership subject at AGSB is an Ateneo advantage. It emphasizes leadership from within, authentic leadership. One of its pillars is love. This is odd in a cold steely corporate world. The others are heroism, ingenuity and self awareness. The goal of leadership is not only to develop oneself but to clone other leaders. Everybody has potential to be leader. What we do, even if we do not have followers influences/affects others. It is time to define Filipino leadership too

Friday, September 11, 2015

First Session at Middle Manager Leadership course at Rockwell

'Quamplurimi et quam aptisimi" (As many as possible of the very best)9
APS Rockwell
September 11, 2015

Today is the birthday of the former dictator.

The first session

Yesterday, we had the first session of leadership class at Rockwell. There were 16 leaders who showed up, from the original list of 9. I had to sign plenty of request transfers As of Wednesday last week, the management of the school was undecided as to whether they will push through with the class, or cancel this..

There were other classes which were cancelled. (because they did not meet the BEP (break even point which is ten...

We went through the List of Assignments, the Ateneo Leadership Blog which we will use for the submission of assignments, self introduction, and the debate.

Some of the Leaders whose names I remember from their self intro:

Class of Leaders

1. Leader Atty Lei Katrina Abarquez, a corporate lawyer from 3M. a mother;

2. Leader Mildred "Mel" Flores - a Finance VP at a GOCC, a cpa, erstwhile leader of the judges/steering group of the debate

3. Leader Ma. Aurora "Maye" Gutierrez - a mother, she manages some of the family business, formerly was with Cathay Pacific and an expat who lived in Hong Kong for sometime

4. Leader Richard Tan - a late enrollee, a VP at a BPO company

5. Leader Alexis Tan - Category Brand Manager of Nestle; it took him two hours to negotiate the travel from Pasig to Rockwell because of the flood and heavy rains;

6. Leader Justin Quilon - a Leader of virtual office company, Regus, and he is in charge of developing teams at their company. He was formerly from SMART (that is why he and somebody from Globe could not look at me when I mentioned the slow internet speed. Justin loves sports (running and he wanted to get running tips - which I all ready forgot. He answered my emails. The others...??

7. Leader Catherine Villanueva - a finance manager. She said in her introduction speech she says she has issues with her confidence. I did not see that tonight.

8. Leader Architect Senior Architect Ana Choco - she was responsible for many great designs of new Project of DMCI. She does not want to talk about the Luneta project. (I later learned that she is a townmate and her parents live in a subdivision which I developed.

9. Leader Erika Manrique - an entrepreneur. She subscribes to the idea that Leadership is situational

10. Leader Rachel Lopez - very young and good looking, but she is a Test Engineer.

11. Leader Maricon Bangayan - an HR specialist of a school specializing in special children.

12. Leader Ferdinand Gabriel - a consultant

13. Leader Enzo works at Globe (he did not continue because he changed subject by email and there are now strict rules about withdrawal from a subject without permission

14. Leader May May Roxas

15. Leader Khris Maan Santiago

16 Leader Jermelito Rabonza - a marketing officer at 3m, used to be with Pharma, and works in the same company as Leader Atty. Leighna

(The site apologizes to the leader for not getting their names right and missing some of them. The author did not have formal class list and and the class cards.)

If I got it right, there are 2 Mays (the young and old) and three moms. More than half of the class are fresh enrollees

I should get to know more of the Leaders as soon as I get the learning agreement,other assignments, and the class cards with pictures.