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		<title>Influence and Office Politics</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month, The Wall Street Journal ran an article entitled &#8220;Don&#8217;t Dismiss Office Politics—Teach It.&#8221; The article eloquently states that people who succeed in their careers—and help their companies succeed—know how to play office politics that benefit themselves and their companies. From the article: When talented executives combine a knowledge of what their company needs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Right Thing!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Lauren Powers, Senior VP, Business Development As I have been following the recent stories about the problems at Penn State, I have been trying to understand how so many people stepped away from doing the right thing. I found this aspect of the story almost as horrifying as the alleged acts of sexual abuse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Book Co-Authored by Kim Barnes: Consulting on the Inside</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 19:27:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Barnes &#38; Conti CEO Kim Barnes and longtime friend of Barnes &#38; Conti, Beverly Scott of Bev Scott Consulting collaborated on the 2nd edition of Consulting on the Inside: A practical guide for internal consultants. The book is published by ASTD Press and will be available this week, on February 18. According to the publisher: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Competition, Recession, and Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:12:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In another fascinating article on Bloomberg Business Week entitled &#8220;How to Make a Great Business Great,&#8221; Authors Mark Thompson and Brian Tracy share insights in the importance of investing in your company during times of recession, and how small companies are able to compete and even rival larger ones during economic downtimes. Mark Thompson says [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Short Term Opportunity, Peter Drucker, and Strategic Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 17:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Strategic Thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Drucker Lectures is a recent book collecting some of the lectures of the late management expert Peter Drucker. Bloomberg Businessweek recently published online excerpts from this book, which is a must-read for fans of the late Professor Drucker. My wish for this new year—and for many to come—is that more and more companies and [...]]]></description>
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