An entrepreneur, a businessman, who wandered into teaching after finishing his MBA. Now a full time entrepreneur and businessman, discovering what works and what does not work. Surrendering idealism for Pragmatism In entrepreneurship, you do not really know until you find out...
I am a businessman and entrepreneur and an educator on entrepreneurship by accident/or on the side. I am first and foremost a businessman and entrepreneur. I made this blog to gather my thoughts on the subject, make this as a legacy for future entrepreneurs.
Many individuals and organization are making plenty of revenue from courses that instruct individuals how to be better marketing, finance or administrative persons. Or masteral degrees.
But in my experience, that isnt the strategic issue or the problem in organization, They are in Peter Senges term: personal mastery and mindset. Unchanging mindset and personal mastery result in:
1. No change; -in sales and revenues. Flat and going south performance
2. Delays
3. Defective products
4. Non conformance to standards;
5. Waste and losses
6. Problems and more problems
7. Angry customers and exodus to competitors
8. Failing and losing organization
Talk about grand strategy and cute campaigns. Unless we get people on the line and as one, nothing happens. Senge was right that the correct strategy is to get people get in line for one vision through shared learning
Managers must talk less on process and technique but work more on team building and getting the people work as one.
This post is thankful that there more hospitals thanks largely for the efforts of doctors to put up their hospitals and there are various aggressive groups like the ACE group. This is heartening and a welcome development. Part of this growth is generous financing from govt banks like Landbank and DBP. And this is fueled by support from UHC and Philhealth. We can see huge reimbursements from Philhealth (and horrors large arrears too due to red tape. This was not solved by resignation of former President of Philhealth)
At the Macro level, the biggest source of funds for health care are still the Household, followed by Local Govt and then govt agencies like SSS. At the Micro market level, the growth of revenues of many hospitals are from insurance and Philhealth. In strategies of hospital we evaluated, we recommended that the Philhealth dept of hospitals be beefed up and representation with Philhealth be increased.
We will not know the outcome of the PHAPI holiday with Philhealth:
1. Do not fight City Hall;
2. The external analysis always mentions PESTEL (Political and Legal)
3. It it is a Doctors Hospital, many patients will not look kindly on the doctors who swear by the Hippocrates oath
We learned though that the Hospitals did not push through with this plan to boycott Philhealth
This post is overwhelmed by the growing passion in taking sides in the current political campaign: both national and local elections. All ready there is a frenzy for campaigning for the elective positions. Onc can guess that this is so: 1. To the victor belongs the spoils, or as claimed 2. Many are being paid.
But there are also real fanatics who wish to hitch their wagon to their political candidates. I know of one FM loyalists who cried when FM was deposed. And even blamed Cory Aquino for his misfortunes (he was not looking for a job)
Change can not come from the political leaders without the support of the followers. Change can not come from the top - it can only come from our own personal changes. How far are the political candidates from the populace. And the truth is when the politician gets elected. I found this out after helping a former mayor become a governor. We helped him by: 1. campaigning for him among the subdivision buyers of the subdivision we built. 2. We claimed that the road built by us (there was a promise that we will be reimbursed) was done by the good mayor (We were never reimbursed) Well the good mayor got elected. But his post never got past his fat secretary (she has died)
Did the good governor help me as a person or as a businessman.? No. He let me struggle with his successor who objected to his previous approval.
What about you as person? Can he get you a job.\? May be if our are related to his leaders. But for only for three months. If you are at the lgu level, then maybe you can get occasional ayuda from the Barangay Chairman or the Town Mayor. But dole outs and alms can not make you successful.
You alone can make a success of yourself. Never believe the false siren song of politicians. Change the govt and change your life. FM changed the govt to parliamentary. Did we change the course of the nation.
We amended the constitution of 1935 to that of 1987. Did the destiny of the nation change? We never will know. But if we were to listen to the critics, it never improved.
But mind you our economy did improve not because of the govt but because there are many hard working Filipinos: 1. who became OFW and remitted billions of dollars, almost 1/3 of the Phil GDP
2. who joined with foreigners for the BPO 3. who became entrepreneurs and investors.
We can succeed irrespective of the President, and policies
Countries succeed inspite of corruption as in Italy (one of most corrupt) Indonesia and Japan. This post condemns corruption, but to make it as an excuse not to move forward in unacceptable.
Rather it is us to us to change our mindset of fiefdom or feudal relationship with politicians. We campaign but we expect the politician to pay sometimes with their own lives. We extract every bit of ayuda an PHP from the elected politicians furthering the graft that happnes in the govt. He has to extract and skim from all contracts so that he can feed the masses milling to his house to get all sorts of ayuda. The masses, themasses force the uppen echelon to steal to feed the hungry millions - to continue committing graft. We abhor graft, but we like the ayuda. We do not relect people who are stingy with ayuda.
Many cling to BBM because of promise of great wealth to the supporters : the FM gold bars and the Tallano wealth (not true?)
