{"product_id":"you-cant-save-80-million-filipinos-but-you-can-build-me-a-park-paperback-1","title":"You Can't Save 80 Million Filipinos! But You Can Build Me a Park - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRoberto Bobby E. Aboitiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMatthias Bube G. Mendezona\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthias 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthias \"Bube\" Mendezona began his quarter century career in the Aboitiz group of companies as a management trainee in Smith, Bell and Co. Inc and retired as VP for Industrial Estates. Jesuit educated from grade school through to College, Mendezona obtained a University of the Philippines masters degree in Business Management. A current faculty member of the University of Phoenix CA campus, he has authored two other books, \"How Sweet the Mango, No?\" and a prize-winning poetry collection entitled \"Rumination\". He lives with his wife Mikey in Sacramento, CA within driving distance from two of his four daughters, sons-in-law, grandchildren, and the outdoors that they frequent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 142\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.3 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e February 14, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46717966352581,"sku":"9789715391221","price":30.87,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/2-c86ovNfk9789715391221_76a8520a-1f9a-4d0f-8ee2-efa161fdb28e.webp?v=1786583912","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/you-cant-save-80-million-filipinos-but-you-can-build-me-a-park-paperback-1","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}