Blind obedience kills truth
Try a small exercise. The next time someone with a title—director, colonel, president, CEO, doctor, attorney, chairperson, mayor, congressman—tells yo...
Herman M. LagonDecember 24, 20256 min
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Try a small exercise. The next time someone with a title—director, colonel, president, CEO, doctor, attorney, chairperson, mayor, congressman—tells yo...
The images that stay with us in Philippine basketball are usually loud – arms raised, crowds shaking arenas, emotions spilling over. This time, gold a...
There is a particular silence that comes after the medal table is finalized. Not the roar of a championship, and not the silence of failure either—jus...
Some of the boldest truths in history came from the quietest voices. Buried under Babylonian soil, the Cyrus Cylinder declared that people deserved fr...
They say you know a leader has gravitas not by how loud they speak, but by how much weight their silence holds. That thought stuck with me as I sat ac...
The workplace is often just a mirror of society—and the biases outside seep right in. Gender expectations still influence who gets the big tasks, whos...
We live in a world quietly guided by invisible rules—those unspoken cues we’re never formally taught, yet somehow instinctively follow. They don’t sho...
Years of embarrassing meetings let me realize that intelligence is insufficient for success. Being an introvert, social events drain me; occasionally,...
There are evenings when a city introduces itself without fanfare—no tourist pitch, no Instagram glow, no curated charm. Last Friday, after Day 1 of ou...