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		<title>Baseballs, Mars and Strategic Planning</title>
		<link>http://sisyphuschronicles.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/baseballs-mars-and-strategic-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2008 14:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My interest is in the Future, because
I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
1876-1958 American Inventor
At the foundation of most Strategic Plans there rests a simple question, &#8220;Where do we want our organization to be in five years, and what must we do, and when must we do it, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>At the Heart of Time Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:48:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is reading this article the best use of your time right now? 
If you can extract the core lesson contained in the above question, then not only don’t you need to read this article, but you never have to attend a course on time management. You’ve just saved a lot of time and money. You [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Out! Out! Damn Pebble!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 18:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It requires no great skill to opine on what’s wrong with the world. All we need do is go about our lives, and pay attention to all that annoys and peeves us. Like a sharp pebble caught in a sandal, wrongness is self evident at every step. Flaws aren’t silent; they whisper their presence at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Simple Wisdoms&#8230; Difficult Lessons?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:48:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We call them many things, from adages and aphorisms, to maxims, proverbs, old sayings and memorable quotations, but regardless of how we’ve labeled these sage old saws, they all deliver exactly the same thing. They are all, snippets of wisdom, lessons learnt, sometimes at great expense through hard won life experience. Together they provide a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making a Date with a Crisis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:42:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of our circumstances we often share the same thoughts. The notion “It can’t happen here”, is such a common way of looking at disaster, that even Kissinger got into the act with his famous “There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.” 
Humor aside, disasters happen regardless of what you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change Management Interview</title>
		<link>http://sisyphuschronicles.wordpress.com/2008/06/13/change-management-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:12:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Something different.
A few weeks ago I had the distinct pleasure of being interviewed by George Torok for his radio show Business in Motion.
It&#8217;s a one hour conversation on the topic of Change Management, you can listen to it here:
George Torok
Host of Business in Motion
www.BusinessInMotion.ca
www.Torok.biz
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		<title>Work Flows Downhill</title>
		<link>http://sisyphuschronicles.wordpress.com/2008/05/30/work-flows-downhill/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 15:26:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The Internet ignores both political and geographic boundaries!&#8221; To anyone with even a minimal level of technical expertise, this statement is nothing more than a grade level observation. Yet if we use it as a lens to examine the future, it offers a few interesting implications. Especially if we have a minimal level of technical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On the Mechanics of one Election</title>
		<link>http://sisyphuschronicles.wordpress.com/2008/05/26/on-the-mechanics-of-one-election/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2008 14:06:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asimov&#8217;s classic &#8220;Foundation&#8221; is the purest form of SF. It takes a fundamental desire - our need to predict the future - then presents a &#8220;What if?&#8221; scenario and pushes it to the boundaries of belief. Whenever I&#8217;ve read &#8220;Foundation&#8221;, I&#8217;ve always spent more time wrestling with the central idea than actually enjoying the story [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As Others See Us.</title>
		<link>http://sisyphuschronicles.wordpress.com/2008/05/23/as-others-see-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 15:31:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you don’t recognize the tail end of this quote from Robert Burn’s ‘To a Louse’ then here it is in its entirety, “Oh wad some power the giftie gie us, To see oursel’s as others see us!”. Why am I waxing poetic this month? Mainly because a sad incident a few months ago that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forget the Turtles, its PEOPLE all the way down, and up.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 14:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m baffled&#8230; If I go to the Tim Hortons corporate site I read the following&#8230;
&#8220;The Tim Horton Children&#8217;s Foundation was established in 1974 by Ron Joyce, Co-Founder of the Tim Hortons chain, to honour Tim Horton&#8217;s love for children and his desire to help those less fortunate.&#8221;
And then I&#8217;m forced to contrast THAT worthy value [...]]]></description>
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