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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
You Can't Save 80 Million Filipinos! But You Can Build Me a Park

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

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

Paperback

Business General

ISBN10: 9715391222
ISBN13: 9789715391221
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Feb 14 2018
Pages: 142
Weight: 0.38
Height: 0.30 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.

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