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		<title>The Biggest Problem For HR Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Over the last years and months I&#8217;ve come to believe the biggest problem with HR Strategy and getting results is individual leaders. We know in all companies there are pockets of satisfied, highly motivated, engaged employees who turn out superb work. We also know those are mostly the exceptions. Results and motivation are lost [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Courage, Whose Courage?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From &#8220;old blood and guts&#8221; Patton to the newest entrepreneur, the media idolize courage &#8211; the sheer guts to initiate an enterprise and take the risks needed to pursue it persistently and make it work &#8211; as if it is all personal, all the &#8216;guts&#8217; of just one individual. 
But are we understanding &#8216;raw courage&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;ve Come A Long Way&#8230; Maybe</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Perhaps the title should be &#8220;the more it changes..&#8221; Last night&#8217;s news highlighted two workplace-related items. First 61 charges laid, with potential fines totaling $17,000,000, for safety violations in a building renovation that resulted in four workers dying. Will company leaders get the message? Does it really take that much to ensure people understand job [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Level Was Einstein Imagining?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s another Proust-like &#8217;seeing the world with new eyes&#8217; example that fits leadership and HR. This came to mind when a speaker at SCNetwork&#8217;s recent Diversity forum, Brenda Nadjiwan of Indian Affairs, opened her presentation with a quote from Einstein. It&#8217;s one I&#8217;ve often treated with impatience, partly because it seems almost obvious (have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning Emotions &#8211; A Strategic Imperative Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often a new idea comes along that you know will have huge impact &#8211; like email or Google &#8211; simple, yet startlingly powerful. Can you see the implications beyond the basics?
One area that&#8217;s particularly challenging to train or develop, but extremely important in 21st Century leadership is how to help people improve at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Trusts Whom?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A number of topics reminded me in recent weeks of the Proust quotation: The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. This applies, for one, to the usual way we look at trust in organizations.. 
One of the measures relevant to engaging employees is always whether they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Diversity Powers Innovation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While moderating a panel presentation on Diversity last week, some points really struck home above and beyond some of the issues usually raised. First and foremost, &#8220;diversity powers innovation&#8221; is becoming clearer and clearer as time moves on. And innovation is the greatest need businesses have going into the an unpredictable future in which dozens [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Long Term Challenges in HR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I suspect we often have trouble with messaging in HR because some key long term strategy issues appear trivial to many people. For instance, pursuing wider interests than just sales and profit not only takes one&#8217;s mind off day-to-day stress and so improves performance, but helps you notice how things work similarly in different contexts. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Times Are Changing When Police Can Teach HR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HR and leadership deal with human relations in general and what works best, which is often counter-intuitive. That&#8217;s a key reason many line managers struggle with HR approaches. The recent demonstrations at Toronto&#8217;s G20 venue provided interesting examples. 
Legitimate protestors are stuck in a puzzling situation. They can continue to hold marches during G20 meetings [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balance-and-results.com/times-are-changing-when-police-can-teach-hr.html</link>
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		<title>Is Engagement an HR responsibility?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every so often a truly insightful article arrives on a subject that everyone is puzzling about. David Creelman produced one with his latest newsletter interview/review of Leigh Branham and his new book, Re-Engage with Mark Hirschfeld.  He notes Branham&#8217;s most important point is that most great workplaces arise when a CEO starts the enterprise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interesting Leadership Blog</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just returned from the think-tank-like HR&#124;People &#38; Strategy 2010 conference in San Diego, some follow up searching led to a blog I hadn&#8217;t found previously that has some very interesting analyses of current trends in management. It&#8217;s well researched, including some references to ideas and individuals who were presented at the conference.
It&#8217;s a UK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do We Need to Review Listening Skill?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It turns out the answer is yes, as it is for a variety of such basics. Stuck in California traffic on the way to a conference on leadership skills last week, I found a &#8220;Clear Writing&#8221; expert on the radio reminding us how many such skills need review. Blogs are great for short &#8216;how to&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balance-and-results.com/do-we-need-to-review-listening-skill.html</link>
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		<title>Do senior execs &#8216;engage&#8217; with HR issues?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One advantage of reading a lot of HR blogs and news in a short time is that items fall together and suggest new ideas. The Canadian HR Reporter piece about HR in Vietnam and Cambodia (&#8220;Growing HR in Vietnam, Cambodia,&#8221; March 8, 2010), got me re-reading last year&#8217;s piece about HR in China (&#8220;Business of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balance-and-results.com/do-senior-execs-engage-with-hr-issues.html</link>
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		<title>Napoleon&#8217;s Glance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategically it sometimes pays to step back from daily routine and read or experience something different&#8230; but not necessarily too different &#8211; the busman&#8217;s holiday they call it &#8211; as when you work for a charity, gaining pleasure and learning from doing more of what you do at work. Reading for pleasure, I stumbled on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introversion Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you&#8217;ll have time to write, life intervenes it seems. In the next while I&#8217;ll concentrate on interesting tidbits. In the online HR MBA class I assist with this article justifying introverts in business got some good discussion and seemed to reassure people they had a chance to get ahead.
It correctly notes [...]]]></description>
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