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Dennis Anthony Uy is the founder and CEO of Converge ICT Solutions, Inc., the first and fastest growing end-to-end fiber internet provider in the Philippines. Mr. Uy’s talent and keen eye for innovation has led Converge to successfully provide quality-conscious consumers with high speed fixed broadband internet at value for money prices and continue to cater to the demands of a […]

I actually started doing sales training even before Mansmith and Fielders Inc. was founded in 1990. Three years as a working student and three years doing FMCG brand marketing work at RFM after graduation prepared me for the work of an entrepreneur. One of the operations I started running as a start-up was a direct sales company. That new venture […]

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Leadership means getting things done, and getting things done is about execution, so leadership is about execution.  Of course, before one can execute, one needs a clear goal, a strategy and an action plan. Whether the plan is to follow somebody else’s plan or execute one’s own, it is important to understand the links between goals, strategy, execution and leadership. […]

Metro Manila has had a backslide and is back to a modified ECQ from August 4 to 18, 2020. To be fair, at least 126 other COVID19-affected countries are also experiencing a new wave of COVID-19 infections. It is scary, as I remember that the second of the 1918 Spanish Flu’s four waves was the deadliest of them all. The […]

Boxing as Business Story Picture this: you and your friends have saved up and paid the joining fee to operate your license as boxers. You have been practicing for your debut boxing fight, but once you enter the ring, the rules change. You can no longer use your hands versus your opponent in the first three rounds. In fact, your […]

(Talk given on July 24, 2020 during the Leadership Excellence Series in NCR of the Department of Tourism)  Recovery is all about length of time and effort needed to bounce back. Value chain also looks into the time and effort required in each stage of the process before products or services can be sold to a paying consumer. It also […]

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A recession is when there are two consecutive quarters of negative economic growth, like what is happening in the Philippines today. The Trade Union Congress of the Philippines (TUCP) predicted that some 12 million Filipinos, out of 44 million in the labor force may be out of a job before year end of 2020. The number of Covid19 cases continues […]

A large part of the Philippines went on general community quarantine (GCQ) effective June 1, 2020.  All local and international media have been using the term “new normal”, referring to new realities, new ways of doing or understanding. What does this mean to marketers? Allow me to share my 8- point perspective on this: 1.     We are not going back to any […]

In June 2017, I launched a pioneering seminar “5 Skills of Master Strategists” after finding commonalities in the successful approaches of CEOs when in comes to strategy formulation and execution. The 5 skills are sensemaking, innovating, influencing, executing and discovering. I started interviewing CEOs, CMOs and award-winning young marketers in my blog since May 9, 2014, although I have featured dozens of […]

Josiah Go features the movers and shakers of the business world and writes about marketing, strategy, innovation, execution and entrepreneurship

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