Dear Change Implementers,

As change agents, whether you’re a part of the organization undergoing the change or brought in from the outside, there are three things you must bring to the table:

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There are five trends in the software and internet space that every businessperson and entrepreneur should be aware of, since they're going to shake up the business landscape dramatically.

What's the best way for business to exploit these trends? Take the Internet as a metaphor, and build linkages. Some partnerships are traditional and to be expected; others are more unconventional but will tap into the number of connections growing around us. Read on to the end to find out.

The Latin word ‘genius’ originally did not describe a person of great intellectual ability. In fact, it once meant an ‘attendant spirit present from one's birth,’ much like the Greek muses who inspired poets, sculptors, and musicians. It was this meaning that was adopted by 18th-century French translators of the Arabian Nights stories, transforming the Arabic ‘jinni’ to ‘genie’.

The story of Aladdin is one of the more popular genie tales. A young man, down on his luck, is contracted by a sorcerer to retrieve a lamp from a magical cave—a dangerous job the sorcerer doesn't want to do himself. Aladdin finds the lamp, but risks getting trapped in the cave, only to find out later on that the lamp contains a powerful genie that will do the bidding of anyone who holds the lamp.

Twelve years ago, Aling Wilma, a resident belonging to an urban poor community in Barangay Welfareville in Mandaluyong, would wake up at 2 am to take her son for a 30-minute walk to the communal shallow well for their family’s share of water. Queues were long and access to clean and safe water was low. By the time Aling Wilma was home from this daily routine, she was exhausted and had little energy to go on with the rest of her day’s work. Her seven-year-old son on the other hand, would come home with his bucket only half-full because the long walk carrying a heavy pail for his build was quite a struggle.

This was a common scenario for most of Manila’s urban poor communities during the 1990’s. Add to that, Metro Manila’s water system was faced with a number of technical challenges then—water supply was inadequate and water losses (“non-revenue water”) peaked at 63 percent, as caused by deteriorated lines and widespread illegal connections.

How deep does a partnership have to go? With the many answers that spring to mind, RCM Health Care Services and its relationship with the Philippine community of occupational and physical therapists-its professionals, the schools, the students-gives one that redefines the word 'commitment'.

A premier international recruiter of health care professionals for all major hospitals, long-term care facilities, clinics and schools in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Washington DC, and Northern Virginia, RCM Health Care regularly visits the Philippines, contributing to the increased number of Filipino occupational and physical therapists in the United States.