Doctah Bengzon Style - AAC

Ateneo Professor on Entrepreneurship |  August 9, 2013

                         The operations cluster headed by Prof Ralph Ante listens well to Dr. Bengzon



Dr Alran Bengzon, the ex VP of Ateneo Professional School  was sent on retirement (he must be 70 well past the retirement age)  He said a valedictory address for Dean Albert for the wonderful job he as protege done for AGSB.  From a train station to a superb No. 1 GSB of choice in the country.

A video, a production was made in honor of the former Dean of AGSB

Last August 7, after praising Dean Albert, he said he must say his final goodbye (having retired?)

He started in l993 20 years ago and he started talking to the faculty then, and asked the simple question:  what is so Ateneo about AGSB.  And through the years, that must be answered in the conference as we look ourselves in the mirror and try to clarify the answer to that question.

He cited the 3 themes prior to 2009 l50th year celebration of  Ateneo in the country:

2007   - Celebrating Excellence -  Development of Person;  of man for others

2008 -  Deepening spirituality -  relationship of man to God, of man to things, and man to others

2009 -  Nation Building  - AGSB of the all the units was the first to say that " Our country is our business.

He says that the lives by the AAC:

Accountability  -  what is your job?  Have you delivered value according to the dictates of your job?  What have you done according to the objectives of the job and the vision and the mission of the organization

Audacity -  courage.  Do you have candor?  If you lack candor, if you fail to properly assess evaluate your boss, your subordinate and peer, if you continue to fool one another, then your giftedness would not translate into action  ---->> achievement.   This stand is similar to that of Andrew Grove where he encourages debate and confrontation in communication.  tsk tsk This is difficult.  You cant afford to draw the ire, the flak from your boss.  They take candor personally.   Is this the Filipino way? But I understand, even in Western countries, they lack candor in their evaluation or relationship.  That is why we see increasing decay in performance.  Much of the malaise in US economy is the inability to address the growing lack of productivity of workers (they have become leisure vacation oriented and lack the work habits to excel, ie, have become lousy and lazy)

Only when you have accountability, and audacity can you have community

Do you agree with the Bengzon style?

Doctah Bengzon style at You Tube

                           He was ignored by Rachel (emcee then) and his comment lasted for one hour

 

              Doctah  Bengzon smiles as he sits beside Dean Albert whom he praised for the latters excellent achievements after he let him handle AGSB 5 years ago.