Endika Aboitiz

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Notes by EMA: On Attention & Engagement, 24 x 60 x 60, and the 996 Work Ethic

Today’s world is complex and complicated — the complex being challenging to understand, and the complicated being of many moving parts. It is also changing rapidly from all sectors and corners. Both the complexity and complicatedness of the world need intelligence for it to be broken down into simpler forms to be better understood — the former needing knowledge and the latter requiring experience.

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Notes by EMA: Teamwork

Teamwork is a word that is often used and, perhaps, not understood at depth. At its most superficial levels, it is about getting along. That understanding is of the concept is what those who end up last in a competition manifest in their everyday behavior – pat people on the back and tell them how great they all are, no matter what they have done.

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Notes by EMA: A Few Simple Qualifications in Leadership

The Aboitiz Eyes team tells me that our readers have a great interest in leadership. That is good news because, at the end of the day, we have seen that people work for people, and not for companies. We would like them to be loyal to institutions and, of course, that is an educational and cultural goal, but they work for individuals — individuals they look up to, respect, learn from, are engaged by, motivated by, and have fun. “Fun” here being so much more binding of the above than too many realize.

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Values-Driven Growth: AEV and AboitizPower ASM 2019

Aboitiz Equity Ventures, Inc. (AEV) has earmarked PHP81 billion in capital expenditures (capex) for 2019, a 65% increase from roughly PHP50 billion utilized in the previous year. The bulk of the fresh funding will be infused into power and infrastructure projects to sustain growth momentum over the long-term.

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Salamat kaayo, JRA!

Perhaps, Mr. Bobby Orig put it best: JRA was a hardened Giver — generous in giving you his full attention, guidance, epic stories and jokes, encouragement, appreciation, a bear hug. As A-People, JRA was our dedicated chairman but, more so, someone who openly shared himself to all, inspiring generations of team members to be the best at what we do.

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Notes by EMA: Civilization as it should be

There is a little shop in London called Sautter owned by Laurence Davis. He is an old friend of mine from whom I have been securing great Cuban cigars for a long time. In his little shop, he has four or five seats where aficionados enjoy their cigars, his company, and that of other civilized cigar smokers.

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Notes by EMA: The Western Levant

“Arafat died with 750 million US dollars in his personal estate. Had it not been for the creation of the State of Israel, he would have been known to his mother at most. The Jews had been forgotten before World War II. Where is the Coptic Church, anybody? Who would give a care about the Mossad?”

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Notes by EMA: Conventional Wisdom & China

Yukon Huang – watch him on YouTube to get a full picture. This is a summary of what he thinks. I have learned from him. I have never liked conventional wisdom and have sought those that help me challenge the same; not for the sake of challenge but because in a world that is rapidly changing and adapting, conventional wisdom cannot generally be the best path forward.

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Notes by EMA: More on Leadership…

I have received requests to share with you my thoughts and experience on leadership with more articles for Aboitiz Eyes. I am happy to do so yet must clarify again that these are my thoughts and those that I have learned from others. None of us get all of this right and that is what makes life so wonderful – the joy of improvement and of achieving better ways.

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Jack Ma – Alibaba

Alibaba is a company that is 18 years old, and it dreams of 2 billion customers all over the world and a trillion dollars of revenue by its 20th anniversary. Of that number of customers, 1.2 billion will be from outside China.

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Why Manila Needs The Green Jeepney

“Let’s not wait for the air to be too hard to breathe for us to start something. We need to be proactive rather than reactive. In a world where the only thing constant is change… then we need to know when to embrace what change is good.”

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Saving the humble jeepney (REPOST)

“A company called QEV Philippines—a venture led by Endika Aboitiz, Enrique Banuelos, and Jose Maria Roger—wants to partner with local jeepney manufacturers to shift some 50,000 diesel jeepneys into cleaner electric-powered vehicles ‘at a reasonable cost’.”

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Speech by Endika Aboitiz at the QEV E-Jeepney Launch

“Earlier this year, we flew a jeepney to QEV Tech Barcelona’s R&D center to assess how to improve their electrification and we are working on that. We could not wait so we brought in to Manila a half a dozen QEV engineers to work with a local jeepney manufacturing expert, the original makers of the jeepney themselves, the Saraos, to finally convert our quaint and unique jeepneys to electric.”

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SAPIENS & HOMO DEUS – Summaries

I think that both these books are a necessary read for all who have interest in trying to find out the true meaning of the human experience by thinking about both our past and our future; for all of those that have interest in trying to get more meaning out of life by milking the best out of the fiction that we have inherited.

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The European Crisis: What Is It Really About?

Over the past 500 years, Europe has lived off its colonies — taking from them and selling to them. We go to war twice and twice we asked the Americans to go get us out of the mess we find ourselves in. Then after World War II, the Americans, for their own interest, rebuild us and Japan by giving us money, buying our goods, protecting our trade, and coming to visit us.

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Why all religious organizations should pay taxes

Like citizens and organizations belonging to a community enjoying freedom and allowed opinions, the Church is accountable to God for what is God’s and to Man what is Man’s. In that light, the Church must, like citizens, be allowed those privileges and freedom by filing tax returns and paying their share of taxes.

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Loyalty – The Role It Plays

We just held our 2016 Recognition Night and that got me thinking about what loyalty really means and why it is so important. It cannot be just the feel good aspect. There has to be something deep, solid and more meaningful about the entire institution that we give, and correctly so, give so much importance to.

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World Inequality

Civilized and long-term, enlightened, self-interest man works together with his fellow man to create more wealth and divided it – but not equally, because it was not created equally, because man was not created equally.

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La Familia Aboitiz – Our Roots

We belong to a family and firm that has been in the Philippines for close to 200 years and approaching a market value of US$10 billion, respectively, so I thought it might be healthy to ground ourselves and take a look at our roots.

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LEADERSHIP

Over the years, I’ve made notes from reading and experience on what are the main ingredients, qualities, and behaviours that we need to be guided to be better leaders.