Catagory: Business & Economics

Who Told You You Couldn’t? is part memoir, part manifesto, and a personal rebellion against the inner and outer voices that tell us we’re not ready, not enough, or not allowed.

It’s for those who’ve been overlooked, underestimated, or quietly dismissed. The quiet leaders who nearly stayed invisible. The ones made to feel too early, too loud, too different, or too ambitious, and chose to speak anyway.

Told in four parts, this book weaves together raw personal stories, untold global narratives, and empowering frameworks to challenge the lie that you have to wait to be chosen. From burnout to boldness, rejection to quiet revolutions, it’s a fiercely honest, deeply hopeful invitation to rise before you’re ready, speak before you’re certain, and lead before anyone hands you permission.

Because the question was never really: who told you you couldn’t? It’s: What will you do now that you know you can?

Why choose between a career and travel when you can have both?

In Career or Travel, Why Not Both?, travel entrepreneur and seasoned digital nomad Kach Medina Umandap shares a step-by-step guide for Filipinos looking to break free from the traditional 9-to-5 and embrace a location-independent lifestyle.

Structured in an A-to-Z format, this book covers everything from landing your first remote job as a virtual assistant to earning in dollars and securing long-term travel visas. Whether you’re a fresh graduate, aspiring freelancer, or professional seeking freedom, you’ll find actionable steps to build a thriving online career while exploring the world.

Packed with personal stories, practical tips, and expert insights, this book is more than just a guide—it’s a movement. Kach proves that a Filipino passport is not a limitation but a gateway to global opportunities.
If you’ve ever dreamed of working from a beach in Bali, a café in Paris, or a co-working space in Dubai, this book will show you exactly how to do it. Your journey to become a digital nomad starts now.

Everyone’s naked. Universal connectivity coupled with powerful AI is making everything transparent and everyone vulnerable. Geoeconomic fragmentation, climate change and social inequality are worse than ever.

In this new world:

1. How can we ensure profitable growth and business longevity?
2. How can we achieve environmental and social sustainability without sacrificing profits or material self-interest?

Current approaches like ESG and Milton Friedman’s doctrine of solely maximising profits are proving ineffective. Amassing wealth at the expense of people or the planet is untenable, and ESG regulations are adding costs without creating meaningful change. We need a new model.

For long-term viability, both business and sustainability must be profitable. But in the naked era where every action is visible and traceable, businesses will need to earn their returns by solving pressing problems. At the same time, for sustainability to be sustainable, we need profitable solutions.

The winning strategy for both objectives is steward leadership—doing well by doing good. Maximum Purpose, Maximum Profit is a practical playbook to drive business success by addressing the very challenges that are threatening humanity today.

POWER REDEFINED: Women at the Top on What Really Matters

Power is a subject women rarely speak about comfortably. Yet across 18 raw and unfiltered conversations with women leaders, a messy mosaic emerges—complex, contradictory, and compelling.

Power is not about titles or hierarchy. The real seat of power is internal: clarity about what you stand for, confidence to act on it, and the calm to hold your line when challenged. Women define power through connection and influence, not dominance. Power is not a weapon; it is a relationship.

What holds women back is not lack of talent or hunger, but years of conditioning about how they “should” behave. Power is a muscle that strengthens with practice—every hard decision, every moment of speaking up, and every instance of holding your ground in intimidating rooms.

Different stories across multiple spectrums. A scientist-turned-CEO who sold her company four times over, navigating corporate giants twice her age. Executives who travelled days after childbirth while redefining what leadership looks like. Women who walked into rooms of 200 people and instinctively knew who mattered. The turning point is always internal: the courage to disrupt, the decision to ask for what she truly wants, the willingness to risk before feeling ready, the moment a woman chooses herself.

Power is not something women wait for or chase after. You already have it. You just need to step wholly into it.

This book is for women ready to redefine power on their own terms and men who understand that the world is a better place when both hold the reins.

This book is about how to transform a company, organization, country or individual to achieve goals thought to be impossible by innovation and deep change in the way things are done. To add to his concept and method, author Idris Jala recounts his own vast experiences in many successful transformations at Shell, a national airline, companies, organizations, departments and governments to provide solid practical support for his methodology and discussion points for real problems on the shop floor.

The focal point of this transformation is to set near impossible targets which will require a sea change in how things are done. While the major strategic targets are set by top management in consultation with others and are non-negotiable, the subgoals which feed into this are decided by those who will implement the transformation, bringing about ownership, motivation and a renewed zeal for achievement.

It’s all about what Idris calls Big Fast Results or BFR, achieving impossibly high targets by a radical upheaval in processes, procedures and actions, all of which are measurable and have definite time lines. It is devoid of jargon, readable, clear and concise enabling any interested person to understand and practice it. There is no book like it anywhere – it takes the reader through every step necessary to achieve BFR, steps which have been tested and proven in the crucible of experience.

Idris has direct experience in all that he talks about and advocates and offers many case examples to back up his book.

AN IN-DEPTH EXPLORATION OF AI AS THE ULTIMATE CO-FOUNDER—RESHAPING STARTUPS INTO ADAPTIVE, DATA-DRIVEN ENTITIES THAT THINK, LEARN, AND EVOLVE IN REAL TIME.

Inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 prediction of artificial intelligence (AI) enabling a one-person unicorn, Arnaud Frade examines how AI’s rapid advancements can empower entrepreneurs to build an effective AI-first modern startup—the ‘sentient startup’.

Beyond operationalizing efficiency, by integrating machine intelligence into the very DNA of a company, founders can create ‘sentient’ businesses that leverage AI for strategic decision-making, product evolution, marketing, and operations at a scale and speed beyond human capabilities.

However, the author does not ignore the challenges: the book warns against blind reliance on AI, highlighting risks such as bias, privacy concerns, and over-dependence on data-driven metrics. It underscores that ethical considerations and human oversight remain crucial to ensuring AI-driven businesses are not just intelligent but also responsible.

The Sentient Startup provides a framework and offers practical insights for entrepreneurs, tech leaders, and investors to harness AI’s power effectively to redefine the future of entrepreneurship.

Can we grow a tree (a sustainable future) in dry soil (our current economy)?

For centuries, our economic engine has driven growth by consuming the very foundations of the future—leading to mounting debt, extreme inequality, and environmental crisis. We are fast approaching a point where capitalism—once seen as the engine of progress—is now generating more problems than it solves. At this critical juncture, we need a New Economic Engine. Just as healthy soil is essential for a tree to grow, the right economic foundation is critical for a sustainable future.

Sustainomy is a global framework that transforms growth that consumes the future into growth that creates it. Because the 20th century economic model has created success for the private sector, it is fitting that Sustainomy builds upon the strengths of that model to succeed in the 21st century and positions the private sector as the spearhead of change. As societal and environmental dimensions, combined with intelligence, become the new rule of competition, the private sector together with people and the public sector that adapt will seize emerging opportunities, while those that don’t risk becoming irrelevant.

This book challenges the conventional language of growth—urging bold leaders across all sectors to envision a future where sustainable growth needs to entail wealth distribution, social well-being, and regenerative environment.

Unlimited Possibilities is an inspiring non-fiction narrative that chronicles the entrepreneurial journey of Kate Hancock and Daniel Robbins.

From Kate’s humble beginnings as an island girl from the Philippines to multimillion-dollar successes in her global brands and businesses, and Daniel’s impactful media production and marketing strategies that started as a leap of faith after battling inner demons and dropping out of college, this book offers an in-depth look at how two visionaries have reshaped their industries and impacted the world.

The narrative weaves together their individual stories of perseverance, innovation, and success, providing readers with actionable insights and strategies to unleash their potential and achieve their unlimited possibilities.

Each chapter will not only dive into specific aspects of Kate and Daniel’s entrepreneurial journeys but will also feature contributions from experts who have realized their own unlimited possibilities, interactive exercises to help readers apply their lessons, and key takeaways that serve as great notes for reference. This approach will provide a rich, multidimensional perspective on reading and learning experience that any aspiring high performer in business and other fields must get their hands on.