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Here's how the versatile entrepreneur, JJ Atencio, maintained success in the realm of business
There are different paths to success. For JJ Atencio, Chairman and CEO of Januarius Holdings Inc, it's the path to versatility and achieving balance in life. If one browses through the decorated businessman's thread of achievements, they would find that this principle pays off.
Atencio owes his success to experience. "It’s all about the learning experience that any task undertaken provides. For me, the attainment of an objective at the end of a task is a bonus, it is a by-product of having learned something along the process."
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Throughout the years he had spent in the business industry, Atencio has learned to harmonise analysis with intuition when making a decision. "Many leaders already have great analytical skills, and it’s always good to have an objective, numerical, and empirical basis for decisions. But this can be prone to analysis paralysis," he explains. "Over the years, I’ve learned to trust my quick thinking (using intuition and gut feel), and it’s always been right. So I’ve been most effective when I use both thinking skills on the same problem. It becomes a red flag when my analysis is opposite from my gut feel."
Atencio isn't afraid to make a bold move such as taking the first shot just moments after studying the options presented to him. "The reality is we can never get 100 per cent of data to make a perfect analysis. I feel comfortable with maybe 60 per cent of data present to make an analysis, the rest is filled up by intuition, making decisions faster but also analysis based."
