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Charo Santos-Concio recalls leadership journey in 'therapeutic' experience

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Cathy Yang, ABS-CBN News

<div class="embed-wrap"><figure data-feedback="fb:likes,fb:comments"><img src="http://sa.kapamilya.com/absnews/abscbnnews/media/2017/business/03/14/charo-031517.jpg"/><figcaption><div class="embed-desc">ABS-CBN Chief Content Officer Charo Santos-Concio speaks to Cathy Yang for ANC&#x27;s &quot;The Boss&quot;</div></figcaption></figure></div>MANILA – ABS-CBN Chief Content Officer Charo Santos-Concio recalled her growing years in the small town of Calapan as she retraced her steps from multi-awarded actress to media mogul in her new book.Writing “My Journey – The Story of an Unexpected Leader,” was a “therapeutic” experience, Santos-Concio said in an interview with ANC’s “The Boss.”Santos-Concio said her father, who worked at a government hospital, taught his family the value of service, often accepting chicken, fish and vegetables as payment from his poor patients.“I believe in the value of teamwork. It’s never about one person. It’s never about you. Everything we do is collaborative,” she said.Santos-Concio said she shifted to production despite a thriving on-screen career because she “didn’t enjoy the fishbowl life.”“It’s the thing of making an idea grow, seeing how from a germ of an idea, it can lead into a story, into a beautiful screenplay and executed into cinema or whatever medium that the story would fall into,” she said.“That gave me a high and I didn’t mind dirtying my hands,” she said.She credited her upbringing and drive to excel for her success in leading ABS-CBN in several capacities, most recently as chief content officer after she stepped down as president.Santos-Concio is also executive adviser to the ABS-CBN Chairman Eugenio Lopez III and president of ABS-CBN University “I never went to business school. I don’t have an MBA, but I guess because of my attitude of being a perpetual student and being open to the opportunities that came my way, it led me to a great blessing of being in a position of leadership,” she said.“You are a product of the character of your parents, the values that were taught to you, the circumstances in your childhood and your birth, I guess its destiny and the choices you make when the opportunities are presented to you,” she said.And she was never one to pass the blame on anyone. Santos-Concio said she offered to resign when the network lost some ground in the ratings.&quot;When you&#x27;re on top of something, there&#x27;s command responsibility there,&quot; she said.News.abs-cbn.com is the official news website of ABS-CBN Corp.<figure class="op-interactive"><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameBorder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/asgFqZo87vI" width="560"></iframe></figure>

ABS-CBN Chief Content Officer Charo Santos-Concio recalled her growing years in the small town of Calapan as she retraced her steps from multi-awarded actress to media mogul in her new book.

ABS-CBN Chief Content Officer Charo Santos-Concio recalled her growing years in the small town of Calapan as she retraced her steps from multi-awarded actress to media mogul in her new book.

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Charo Santos-Concio recalls leadership journey in 'therapeutic' experience

Cathy Yang,

ABS-CBN News

Published Mar 15, 2017 04:04 PM PHT

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Updated Mar 16, 2017 02:29 AM PHT

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