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Reinvention with Mr. Jovit Moya

On this episode we are joined by Mr. Jovit Moya. He started his career as part of the two most iconic shows in Philippine entertainment history - Lovingly Yours Helen and That's Entertainment. After almost two decades working as an actor, he embraced the risk and reality of joining the police force, eventually becoming a police commander before leaving the Philippines and living abroad. Today, he is back in the country doing showbusiness things - producing films, acting in movies and even lending his voice to characters we see on tv. Enjoy the episode. Cheers!

Leaders make mistakes

Photo by krakenimages on Unsplash Being a leader is an everyday gig. You make decisions big and small. You make choices that more or less will dictate the level of success of your team and your organization. Unfortunately (and inevitably), you will make a mistake and although some wannabe gangster boss would tell you that mistakes are unacceptable --- once you do it long enough it is bound to happen. Part of leadership is taking ownership --- including failures! And although it is best to move on from a setback it would always be advisable to take a step back and reflect on the things that led to the misstep so that you and your team could learn from it and avoid repeating it all over again. But just because it's inescapable does not mean we have to sit back and just let it happen. There are several measures we can take to prevent failure and the first one is to take the time to diagnose the problem properly. 'Diagnose first before...

Leaders take action

Photo by Samuel Schneider on Unsplash On a Monday morning I called for a meeting, reviewed all the ongoing projects and agreed with my team on their re-prioritized tasks. I was feeling pretty good about myself. I thought to myself --- that was leadership. There was a new multi-division project and I was pulled in to become part of the cross-functional group having developed a reputation for strategic analysis. When I got there I ended up facilitating the workshop where we developed long-term positioning for each segment of our market. I thought to myself --- pretty impressive, that was leadership. But as I stopped to think and reflect --- there wasn't actual 'leadership' involved. I just simply did my job the first time as head of the group and on the second case contributed as a 'specialist' in market planning. That's when I realized that you don't necessarily exercise leadership even when by default you are the leader. Leadership emerges in a crisis or ...

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