WBW MIR: November 2009

“Human civility ends at a point of a gun.” Real entrepreneurs are human beings with a certain love for one’s own individuality. A certain trust in oneself, enough to be able to risk – even as much as one’s own life – to be able to proclaim a distinct kind of happiness in this world. This destiny was meant for all, yet only a few take the path. Some make excuses hiding under their blankets, while some honestly fight for every breath to find out someone sweeped off the rug from under their feet. That is what the Maguindanao massacre is all about – a system that perpetrates people who have no sense of their own lives, of which the only way to find it is by forcibly taking it away from those who found it. In this WBW MIR, the Buffs talk about integrity of work, the secret to a great sense of service, and finding yourself in a sea of conformity and violence.

Show notes:

Talks discussed in this Month in Review:

1. WBW 38: Talent Without Work is Empty. So Work as if Everything Depended on Work part 1 of 2 with Armand Bengco
2. WBW 38: Talent Without Work is Empty. So Work as if Everything Depended on Work part 2 of 2 with Armand Bengco
3. WBW 39: Failure is Shitty especially when You Don't Learn from It with Louie Montalbo
4. WBW 40: A Tip Society will Never Give: Question Everything to Find Your Passion part 1 of 2 with Louie Montalbo
5. WBW 40: A Tip Society will Never Give: Question Everything to Find Your Passion part 2 of 2 with Louie Montalbo
6. WBW 41: The Secret in Making Your Customers Happy is to Make Yourself Happy First part 1 of 2 with Jun Miranda
7. WBW 41: The Secret in Making Your Customers Happy is to Make Yourself Happy First part 2 of 2 with Jun Miranda

Discussion:

• if a tree falls in a forest, without any person to hear it, does it really make a sound? - on the need to use your talents to create value.
• Specific activities for specific times. Live in the present. Be 100% in all things you do.
• Word of the month: Intrapreneur - A person within a large corporation who takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking and innovation. - American Heritage Dictionary
• "Entrepreneurship is not just about having your own business, a circumstance you belong to. But a mindset." - Ben Colayco, Level-Up Games
• Some tips to determine which opportunities to grab: 1)Learn from past mistakes: what have you learned from them? 2) Do the right amount of research. Not too much, not too little. Just enough. 3) Ask yourself, "Is this something I am or can be passionate about?"
• "Kung wala kang pagkukusa, na sa iyo na ang pagkukulang." - on the challenge to take advantage of today's ubiquity of information and resources.
  
• "The answer is important, just not as important as the question." An entrepreneurial tip from Louie Montalbo's class: Society teaches us to analyze - breaking things apart. Whereas entrepreneurship requires synthesis - bringing thoughts and ideas together.
• Your actions are manifestations of your inner self. So how you treat your customers tells a lot about yourself. If you say you love what you do, treat your customers well.
• To be enterprising requires a great sense of ownership. So work as if everything depended on you alone.

EntrepBuff.com sentiments on the Maguindanao Massacre:

"Human civility and individuality ends with a point of a gun." EntrepBuff.com is about every living being's right to pursue happiness. Thus, EntrepBuff.com condemns all unjust acts of violence, together with its system that allows
the Maguindanao massacre to happen. EntrepBuff.com sends its condolences to the lives that have been affected by this incident. Mabuhay ang mga tunay at mabubuting mga Pilipino!

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