LEADERSHIP

Leadership is an interpersonal dynamics, is about the process of influence. How leadership influences
others and brings diverse people together to do purposeful things. This brings out three concerns, what
is the influence for, how the influence happens and what is the experience of people who are part of
such influence.

Leadership Effectiveness must result in enabling and empowering the team of people to do what
they ought to do. Effective Leadership is not about coercive and manipulative tactics that force
people to act according to the wishes of the one who influences.

Effective leadership accomplishes common goals but also helps people to connect with their
immense potentials and enable them to accomplish purposeful things collectively that give the
individual contributors sense of personal accomplishment and fulfillment. That's when business
and organizations have the power of people working for and with others in an organization,
rather than organizations trying hard to find ways to get what they want from people.

IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP

You know the changing market dynamics, changing profile of the people who join organizations,
and the intense competition you are dealing with, is business knowledge alone enough to take
your business to next stage? Achieve your organizational objectives effectively? Sound business
knowledge gives advantage but effective leadership makes things happen in business and
organizations.

Having the best of interest and bright ideas is not enough, to make things happen and get things
done one has to effectively engage with people and bring them together in ways that help them
achieve common goals. Competent individuals perform irrespective effective leadership, but
when there is an effective leadership they reach new heights.

5 young Filipinos making a difference in their communities

Michael De la Peña, 27 - For people who know Mikee De la Peña, they know him as a guy who
brings out the “mutya” in others. A mentor at heart, this NGO worker’s talent lies in bringing out
the potential in other young leaders in the health sector.

Debbie Bartolo, 25 - Community organizing is a difficult path, especially for young people who
are trying to carve a life for themselves. But for Debbie Bartolo, choosing this path was never a
story about herself.

essa Garibay, 28, and Karina May Reyes-Antonio, 33, conservationists at Centre for
Sustainability PH, Inc. - At a time when climate change is threatening to destroy our
ecosystems, conservation work is needed more than ever. Some of those doing this work are
Karina May Reyes-Antonio and Jessa Garibay, Co-Executive Directors and Co-Founders of the
Centre for Sustainability PH, Inc. (CS) a women-led conservation NGO based in Puerto
Princesa City established in 2016. Their two flagship projects include the declaration of the
Cleopatra’s Needle Critical Habitat (CNCH), the biggest of its designation in the country, and the
“Saving the Almaciga Project,” the first ever seed-based propagation of this species in the PH.

Montana Amir Cheng Dominguez, 29, Doctor to the Barrio - In an impassioned online post,
Montana Dominguez shares her story as a Doctor to the Barrio (DTTB) serving in Talaingod, an
indigenous peoples community (Ata-Manobos) located at the northern part of Davao Region.
She tells of the plight of her assigned area of service — landless, roadless, service-less, and
hopeless; a place where the Lumads are painted as “lazy” despite their hard work.