Virgilio Paralisan

An employer brand should be a reflection of our values.

The behavior we tolerate builds our culture. The leader we chose embodies the culture we are willing to live with.

I can only speak for my department because most often, I have built it from the ground up. I set expectations from the very beginning. I do it during job interviews.

My view is that every person...

What is a prerogative?
My understanding of prerogative is this. It is a privilege or right exclusive to a specific class or a particular individual.
As a leader, you can exercise certain prerogatives. As a manager, it may be a bit tricky. Organizations can have a more centralized decision-making culture and structure. In these organizations, managers have very few...

I’ve heard this a lot of times from people who fancy themselves to be leaders: “Lead yourself!”

I most often hear this statement from people who aren’t actually leading. They are more like managing work groups. These are the kinds more concerned about daily time in and time out. Absences and tardiness. 9 to 5. Eight hour shift guardians. They can’t lead so they admonish their teams with the question: “Why can’t you lead yourself?”

My rough translation of their thought process is this:

I’m dum...

Virgilio Paralisan

Leveraging the Law to Manage and Enhance Family Relations, Business, and Wealth.

Published Jun 7, 2022

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I haven’t really mentioned it here in my network, but a considerable portion of my time is invested in policy reform. It sort of consumed two weeks of my time last month. Ducibus was quiet for the same length of time.

I am doing several personal policy reform advocacy. You can visit my blog on one of them: The recognition of family business enterprises as a distin...

I did not learn leadership from best-selling books but these books did validate some of the learnings I got. Books provide a narrative about leadership that is so clean and so straightforward.

The only book I truly read and took to heart was Sun Tzu the Art of War translated by Lionel Giles. The book was one of those very old editions of the Art of War. I consider that book my Bible on operational awareness and tactics in managing security forces. It is one aspect of leadership you must learn seriously. It will probably save your life and your business enterprise.

If your organization doesn't do much strategic planning, defining expectations can be a problem. Without a strategic goal, it will be difficult to outline operational or tactical objectives. Without operational and tactical objectives, it is difficult to define activities at team level.

Last week, I wrote about being very clear about your expectations of people. These are expectations about the kind of people you want to work with. It also means, the expectations of people who would want to work with you as a leader.

When you work with someone, there is a non-redeemable value invested by anyone who is working, collaborating or mentoring someone. That value is time. There is no refund mechanism for it.

Compensation can clearly have a specific valuation. Time however committed...

Failure is not easy to take in.

Most of us were brought up hearing that failure should be avoided. There is no runner up spot for people who fail. We’re constantly assured that we are special and we are winners. People simply aren’t educated to fail. Almost all curricula are designed for “success” not failure. It’s success or your money-back!

Family values serve as a compass for strategic decision-making. For the family business, this ensures business remains aligned with its legacy, purpose, and long-term vision. Governance structures, leadership transitions, and business strategies should reflect the family’s values. Such aspects of the enterprise can maintain stability, adaptability, and multi-generational success. ANP Law and Consultancy services are designed to work across generations. It is designed to serve the challenges of an evolving family business.

There is an emerging approach to family philanthropy called impact investing. It is in fact becoming part of the curriculum in management and business education.

Impact investing apparently is an investment strategy aimed at generating specific social benefits and positive environmental effects alongside financial gains. It takes the form of many asset classes expected to yield many specific outcomes. The whole focus of investing is to use investment capital and basically money, to achieve po...

Since we started with the keywords “Family Legacy”, let’s come up with a meaning both of us will understand. A legacy in simple terms are gifts of money or property bestowed on the younger generation. A personal legacy could mean more than financial things. It is a set of actions you take in your lifetime and the way it impacts people and their way of remembering...

Technological Disruptors to Asian Family Businesses
By: Virgilio “Toy” Paralisan
P remier Family Business Consulting concluded its Asian Family Enterprise Excellence Conference (AFEEC) last June 25-26, 2021. reflection on the Fourth Industrial Revolution and technology disruptors talked about by Professor Roger King.
According to Professor Roger King, a founder and senior advisor of HKUST Tanoto Center, business continuity and succession has long been an issue for families-in-business especia...

Resilience in the New Economy: A Post-AFEEC 2021 Reflection
By: Virgilio “Toy” Paralisan
The Asian Family Enterprise Excellence Conference or AFEEC 2021 that ran from June 25 to June 26, 2021 is over.
There’s still a lot of noise about the topics. A lot of sharing and likes over social media.
Participants who actually joined have access to the recordings at least until the end of July. For those who really want to access all of the recordings beyond July, can actually pay for a subscription. ...

Resilience in the pandemic age: Conti's response to the challenge presented by COVID-19
By: Virgilio "Toy" Paralisan
A ccording to William “Bill” Edwards, Chief Executive Officer of Edwards Global Services (EGS) and a recognized advisor to CEOs, U.S. based franchisor brands pursue the bulk of its market overseas. In fact, 95% of US franchisor brands are actually outside continental US and Canada. They anticipate that two-thirds of the new middle class will be in Asia.
Why are these numbers si...