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                    [Title] => Your elevator pitch
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I love the TV series “West Wing.”

[DatePublished] => 2011-05-01 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [1] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 680590 [Title] => Hand me your wallet [Summary] =>

Carlos was driving home one night after attending a mid-week evening service at his church.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-30 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [2] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 676764 [Title] => Why is discipline difficult [Summary] =>

One day a professor in medical school was discussing a particularly complicated concept in physics class. A student rudely interrupted, “Why do we have to learn this stuff?”

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-17 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [3] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 676432 [Title] => Who is the real delinquent? [Summary] =>

Here’s a poem from an anonymous source that I’d like to share with you. I’d be glad to give credit to its creator if you could help me find out who the person is. 

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-16 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 674338 [Title] => The air up there is thinner [Summary] =>

Do you want to be of greater influence today more than yesterday? Would you like people to take you seriously? I don’t mean constantly looking for approval from others but putting yourself in a position where people listen to you and they are persuaded to believe in who you are and what you’re about – would you like that?

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“Have you ever experienced failures before, Sir Francis?” goes an innocent question from wide-eyed, semi-hypnotized, perhaps highly-inspired college students interacting with me during the Q&A portion of the seminar.

[DatePublished] => 2011-04-09 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 133770 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1325498 [AuthorName] => Francis J. Kong [SectionName] => Business [SectionUrl] => business [URL] => ) [6] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 667459 [Title] => The good old days [Summary] =>

These are troubled times. When you pick up the newspaper and turn to the editorials, you might read something like this: “The world is too big for us.

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I did business with this Japanese businessman for almost 10 years.

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There’s a cozy little hotel I get to stay in every time I go to Dumaguete for speaking engagements.

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One rule at a particular university goes that, if the professor is not yet in the classroom 15 minutes past the hour of the class, the students can consider a “walk” – they can leave the room without any penalty for missing the class.

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