ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma When the Philippines hosted the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit in 2015, the country paraded the best and the brightest among its talented cultural artists. They regaled the heads of state (called economic leaders in APEC) including, among others, President...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma How would Rotary clubs and similar service organizations do their work while an entire country is under lockdown due to a national health emergency? This was the dilemma faced by more than 1.2 million Rotarians in more than 36,000 clubs in the world when the coronavirus...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma A global summit – the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change – is ongoing in Glasgow, Scotland to address global concerns on the continuing threats posed by unabated global warming. The Philippines will likely...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Last week, an ASEAN Sustainability E-Summit was held with the theme, Private Sector in Solidarity with Sustainable COVID-19 Recovery and Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and the SM Group, one of the region’s largest...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma In February 2019, a new and expanded Universal Health Care (UHC) law was enacted by Congress to improve upon the earlier version that was passed in 1995. Its implementing rules and regulations provided for a two-year period – or until this year, 2021 – for many of its...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Hometown Cha Cha Cha, the Korean drama series on romance that bloomed between a big city-bred dentist and a local village chief, has been topping the audience-share charts leading toward its season-ending episodes this weekend. In the Philippines, it was the number one show on...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma On June 1, 1988, I began a new career as a teacher as an associate professor at the Asian Institute of Management. I had just completed more than a decade of work with a leading commercial bank where my last stint was in corporate planning after many years in the human...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Two out of every three Filipinos were born after 1972. It is not surprising that, if asked about what they think about the imposition of martial law by Ferdinand Marcos, they would probably shrug their shoulders to express their indifference. But for those of us who were in...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma “I left the office on September 8 and I arrived home on September 9.” Thus did an office worker narrate his travails on a rainy night six years ago as EDSA became ground zero of “carmageddon,” a situation of gridlock that stranded thousands of motorists and commuters...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma More than four decades ago, an historic moment took place on a field not far from the Rockwell power plant in Makati. Outside a building of the Rotary Club of Makati, the first Health, Hunger and Humanity (3H) project of Rotary International (RI) was signed between then...
Sonny Coloma ENDEAVOR Decades ago, I worked with a workaholic boss who had a very unique work style. He would be out in the field the whole day: Meeting with stakeholders and influencers, fulfilling speaking engagements, doing media interviews and managing by walking around or seeing for...
ENDEAVOR Sonny Coloma Work, worker and workplace converged into one as the global pandemic brought on protracted lockdowns. The emergent scenario: Work is done by the individual worker at his own pace , in his own space , and according to his own concept . As business shifted to remote work...
