Assignment to the Philippines

Dear family and friends,
I am delighted to share that I have been accepted in a wonderful IBM program - Corporate Service Crops, which is thought of as very much a Business version of the Peace Corps - and will be headed to Cebu in the Philippines in early May 2011.  I will start prepping for the assignment - with a team of 12 IBMers from 9 countries - in the next couple weeks, get lined up with a local client in the Philippines a few weeks before departure, and spend 4 full weeks in Cebu working on solving - likely an economic growth related - business problem...

I am super excited and as you can see, counting the days - ~ 100 today, depending on exact departure date - and am thrilled to have the full support of my excellent family and management to let me go for a month...  thank you!!! 

To learn more about the program, please check out: https://www-146.ibm.com/corporateservicecorps/.   There is also a 20-min video that further explores the program on meettheboss.tv (free registration required to view full feature) under Building a High Performance Culture at http://www.meettheboss.tv/broadcast/?contributorFullName=stan-litow&mediaTitle=building-a-high-performance-culture&mediaFileId=296&chapterSeek=0.