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Month: October 2009

This Is It! trumps Just Do It!

Move over "Just Do It". "This Is It" is now destined to be the 2nd greatest string of 3 words to ever inspire (after "I love you" and its variants).Dubbed as the "Greatest concert that never happened", this movie will be talked about for many years to come and "This Is It" will have its place in personal promises, campaign speeches, marketing slogans, love songs and many a battlecry. The movie, composed of a carefully stitched series of rehearsals for Jackson’s summer 2009 London concerts, is reality concert at its best.

Surrogates? Facebook and SMS

I like watching movies. The larger-than-life screen and detached but captive setting enhance the movies' ability to magnify/ abstract/ simplify and distill  streaming snapshots of  life in past, present and future versions. I especially enjoy the Sherlock Holmes exercise which I can't help but do at the end of the movie during which I second guess what message or "moral" lesson was being conveyed by the ever artistic directors and  imaginative writers. In the past, I have let these flood of thoughts keep me entertained for hours after the movie ends, only to be

Permanently Present!

Since 1994, I have been blessed with the privilege of coaching MBA students of the Ateneo Graduate School of Business in Makati and Cebu and soon, the Ateneo School of Medicine and Public Health in Pasig. As of 2009, I have "challenged" and "inspired"more than 1,300 students to improve their personal brands.For all these years, I have continuously upgraded the learning systems I share with my students particularly the lecture files and templates. Evolving from hardcopies, to softcopies in CDs, to softcopies sent via email or shared in googlegroups, here