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The Inconvenient Truth: Why Blog? Just because you can? No, because you have to!

A dazed look, a blank stare, 2 scratches on the head, a quick glance at a similarly surprised seatmate: These are among the common reactions I get when I assign my students to create a marketing blog for class.I try to explain that a blog is superior to the archaic ways of submitting graduate level assignments such as:1. paper (they get lost, crumpled, and waste a lot of trees)2. CD (scratched, won't play, messy)3. soft copy via email or USB (there's just too many viruses that slip through my legitimate

Transform Integrate Perform- Tips to High Performance Highly Personal Plans

Voltes V is 1 of the few things I remember about my childhood. I was surprised that this cartoon was successfully used for a board-level business presentation without being criticized. After that, I realized that the analogy can be extended to teams and individuals at different stages of their drive towards vision-driven consistent achievement (Vcoach) in highly personal, high performance (hyper2) situations. Where this analogy can be applied:1. Individual, high performance, highly personal marketing plans (hypermarketing2.0)2. Underperforming teams which need to level up and improve teamwork3. High performing

Kenneth Blanchard on Achieving Personal Excellence: An Exercise on 20 Things You Love Doing

While driving 5 hours to and from Carmona, Cavite today, I was listening to an audio lecture by Dr. Kenneth Blanchard, co-author of the best-selling book: The One Minute Manager, on personal excellence. One of the things that he shared was this exercise:Think of 20 things you love doing, more than anything in the world. Is it being with your kids? Playing tennis? Surfing the net? Date with your wife?Put a peso mark beside each thing that costs money to do.Then, for each of the 20 things, put a date which represents the last

A Father’s Letter to His Son- A Recollection Assignment

Dearest Jeric,You are God's gift and blessing. I do not know why or what I did to deserve such a wonderful gift from God. And I am forever thankful to God for his gift of you becoming my son.I love you- no matter what you do or don't do. And this has been, is now, and will always be. Remember always what I said when I was still tutoring you- ok lang magkamali. If I, like any other parent, seem over-protective or strict at times, it is because you still benefit