Throwback: debate - are entrepreneurs born, made or product of luck

Every generation needs a revolution - an entrepreneurial revolution

This was a group work.  Class is divided into 4:  3 positions and fourth one is the judge.

Are entrepreneurs (or leaders)  BORN, MADE (Trained) or result of LUCK (SWERTI)

Interesting arguments come out during the debate as well as judgment by the judge.

This is an interesting topic for us to ponder in the days to come.

Really, what do you think?  Are entrepreneurs born, made or product of luck?

MBA Regis Clark Entrep Class last February 21, 2014

Rizal, Philippines   |  Februaary 23, 2014

                          Prof Jorge awards a gift t the winning debaters/group - entrepreneurs are made

I was so glad to have traveled/commuted to be with a group of very enthusiastic and very bright students from AGSB Clark last Friday.

We continued discussion on who they are and I annotated their discussion of life history with the connection of their life with entrepreneurship. A new class member came:  Christine Tubig whom I learned is an executive officer of a family owned real estate business in Floridablanca.  Their PTM are OFW and their packages are in the P1.2 to 2 million price range.   I hope the OFW boom continues.

Our main activity was the group creative activity - ie presentation of crimes.  Committing  crime calls for high level of creative thinking, problem solving, anticipation of problems, exit strategy (in case you get caught) or even how to distribute, fence, launder the loot.  Legitimate business can  not afford not to benchmark copy the criminals hatch a crime.  And also, people, I am amazed, really get out of the box when they plan a crime, and could be dangerous.  The crimes presented were:   Philhealth scam (on eye operation)  black mail, and betting on sports (basketball)  The betting on basketball exposed the dark side of sports which is the more lucrative part:   betting.   Football, and other sports have joined the dark side.

Thus the joke on Disney left.. (If you did not get it, you must have a slow IQ or that the joke is reserved for geniuses)

Our Valentine date yesterday was at Entrep Class at MBA Regis at Ateneo Clark

Angono Rizal  Philippines  February 15 2014

                                         Have a heart sign

I and several other students (14 in all) had rather unusual Valentines Day celebration yesterday.  We had our first session for the Entrep Class at Ateneo MBA in Clark.

We had the following activities:

1.  Creative ideas, ideation -  New ID or other gadget design.

2.  Self Introduction

3.  Walk through the syllabus

4.  Debate:  "Entrepreneurs are Born, Made or product of Opportunities"

Award to Trizza for winning last week's debate

AGSB, H de la Costa Campus, Makati City Philippines   |  December 16, 2013

It is nine days before Christmas, start of simbang gabi.  We still had classes for the Sentrep in H de la Costa campus.  of the 9 students only 4 attended and this included the new enrolee, Grace Agustin.  Those who came were Carlo, Rocky and Trizza.  We merely discussed the hand out for strategic planning and I lectured on my background as entrepreneur and professor, and on business planning.

Grace Agustin correctly guessed why Trizza singlehandedly won he debate.  It was because 3 siya...

                                       Rocky, Trizza and Prof Jorge.  All dressed for the awarding

Our Spentrep Class Last December 9, 2013

AGSB, H de la Costa campus,  December 16, 2013

Tonight, we will have our 2nd session for Spentrep Class in H de la Costa. There were only 8 and is in danger of being scrapped because 8 is the Break Even number  I have been told that there was one additional enrolee.  And is just one short of being considered sustainable.

There were 8 enrolees and only 6 attended.

We walked through the syllabus and we went through some lectures at the slideshare.  And we had a debate:  Entrepreneurs Born Made or product of serendipity or opporutnity.  Trizzia, the lone defender for the made won the debate as per Rocky, the class leader for the debate. It is unfortunate that I was not able to post at once.  I could not find the pictures I took (the camera has senior moments!)

Why did Trizzia win because "3 siya"  Hahaha

Who enrolled in the class:   Zordialine, Francis, Trizza, Rocky, Cristhel, Pamela Ann (a) Carlo Senica and Jennifer (a) Thanks for enrolling;  it is going to be hard 

                              Francis, Trizza, Rocky, and Carlo

                                   Zordialine at the extreme left and Cristhel

                                  Francis and Zordialine engaging in war with words

                                        3 siya vs the Rock

Truth is in the middle, anchoring in on reality by Dean Dr. Ricardo Lim of AIM

PRME Forum, APS Auditorium, Rockwell, Makati City  | November 15, 2013

                                    Dean Ricardo Lim's presentation

I found the speech by Dean Ricardo Lim of AIM to be compelling and practical.  He started his talk by saying that AIM anchors both DLSU and AdeMU who are high in the air with their basketball UAAP rivalry.

He says that a business school, our country is confronted by several challenges:

1.  lack of resources (as we experienced in the Leyte disaster relief and recovery operations)  the devastation was so much, and we lack communication, fuel, and logistics to deploy the aid that arrived;

2.  complexity/duality (there are always two sides to an issue, good and bad;  problems are not linear but systemic -  Senge)

3. ideal vs real;

4.  complex student make up (as in AIM which is populated by foreigners, mostly Indians)

So he proposes:

1.  constant debate to handle complexity

2. purposeful bargaining

3.  seek small starts (baby walk) rather than large monolithic gains

4. Truth is in the middle.

Truth is somewhere in the middle

Truth in the middle

 

There are many stories that we can share as Asians/Orientals to move forward.  Let us not go by extreme values.

The truth in the middle applies to:

1.  Looting in Leyte is it good or bad?

2.  Charcoal making -  it destroys the forest, but stopping it kills livelihood of people in the mountains

Be more practical and realistic, rather than being idealistic and cogent?

                                       We try moderation?  Socratic

3rd Session for Sentrep at de la Costa campus

It was our 3rd session for Sentrep class at Salcedo (H de la Costa campus).  Though I knew that bringing a car would not be a nice idea, I brought one since it has been raining all day long.  True enough, although I was at Buendia flyover at 5:00 pm, I arrived at the classroom at 6:31 (I had to treat the class - I was in front of the building by  6:00.

We had three major activities:

l.  Debate - Entrepeneurs are born made, or are fated, product of destiny/swerti/lucky

The judges ruled out in favor of the side:  entrepreneurs are born.  Congratulations.  The debate hightlighted the three masteries of entrepreneurship:    mastery of self (are born) of opportunity (luck) and mastery of enterprise (are made)

2.  Continue with inspirational video presentation

3.  Presentation of illegal activity -  Only 4 groups were able to present.   There would be a continuation next week.

I did a short presentation on entrepreneurship at slideshare (it is at the www.profjorgeentrep-ateneo.blogspot.com featured post. 

  Except for the inspirational video, assignments, without attached files shall  in the future, be blogsent to the email:    profjorge.entrep.ateneo@blogger.com  , 

Nu 12 shall still be sent to :   jorge.saguinsin.sentrep@blogger.com

Those who have not sent their inspirational video, as a reminder shall send link, embed code to tto: 

profjorge.entrep.selfdev@blogger.com

For next week, we have two creative activities.  Vian promised he prepared something on creativity.