The case studies in this book engage with classic issues of design and implementation. How can leaders help employees understand, embrace, and indeed guide change? How can governments work effectively with the business community? How can the most marginalized citizens be brought into the design and implementation of programs that affect them?

If there is one thing we should remember about good governance, it is that the future of our country does not lie in the hands of a few; it lies in our hands as responsible citizens, willing to contribute our ideas and efforts toward inclusive and sustainable progress.

The pilot volume in an ambitious series that looks at the Philippines through the minds of its conquerors to discover the roots of Philippine economy and governance. It aims to encourage a new generation of scholars to look at strategy in a historical context, and to apply pivotal learnings from the country’s long years under colonial rule to national governance in the modern day.

This book is about the future that we – as responsible citizens – can shape together, so that many of our dreams and aspirations as a people can be realized within the lifetimes of those finishing their studies today. It brings together the country’s most reputable good governance advocates who offer six essays that propose the values that we as Filipinos need to practice the most in order to realize our shared vision of a Dream Philippines.