You Can't Save 80 Million Filipinos! But You Can Build Me a Park - Couverture souple

Mendezona, Matthias "Bube" G.; Aboitiz, Roberto "Bobby" E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9715391222 ISBN 13 : 9789715391221

Editeur : University of San Carlos Press, 2018

Synopsis

Matthias Mendezona is a prize-winning poet and accomplished author of a personal memoir “How Sweet the Mango, No?” but he now co-authors a book with his late friend and business associate Roberto “Bobby” Aboitiz, with the intriguing title, “You Can’t Save 80 Million Filipinos, but You Can Build Me a Park.” In this pithy tome, Mendezona recounts the experience of working together with the Aboitiz family (an influential Filipino business clan based in the central Philippine province of Cebu) and a Japanese partner to build what would become one of the biggest ship-building sites in the region. The book is valuable from several perspectives—as a personal memoir relating the difficulties of establishing a greenfields industry in a developing country with its peculiar hydra of tradition, politics, bureaucracy, corruption etc. while raising one’s family and building one’s own career; as a case study which could be taken up in a business school; and the detailed observation of dealing with the many factors and varied role-players involved in the transformation of an underdeveloped town into a competitive global role-player in the shipping industry. With a modern approach of including telling and relevant personal e-mails, detailing ruminations on the factors which keep a country uncompetitive in a global economy, recording poignant moments of struggling towards success while grappling with social and even personal problems, the book could have a broad audience of Filipinos and foreigners alike as well as businessmen, investors and laymen.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Matthias “Bube” Mendezona began his quarter century career in the Aboitiz group of companies as a management trainee in Smith, Bell and Co. Inc and retired as VP for Industrial Estates. Jesuit educated from grade school through to College, Mendezona obtained a University of the Philippines masters degree in Business Management. A current faculty member of the University of Phoenix CA campus, he has authored two other books, “How Sweet the Mango, No?” and a prize-winning poetry collection entitled “Rumination”. He lives with his wife Mikey in Sacramento, CA within driving distance from two of his four daughters, sons-in-law, grandchildren, and the outdoors that they frequent.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of San Carlos Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9715391222
• ISBN 13: 9789715391221
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 140
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