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		<title><![CDATA[Winning in Today's Environment: Six Imperatives for the Chief Sales Officer]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1193523]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This white paper examines six challenges, or imperatives, that every chief sales officer faces in the current environment, and provides recommendations on how to most effectively address and convert these obstacles into opportunities and competitive advantage. Whether it's the challenge of driving growth in a difficult economy, increasing sales capacity...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Decide to Survive: Four Imperatives that Make Better Decision Management Essential in Uncertain Times]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1138229]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Entering a global recession, companies must respond to increasingly complex markets, changing threats, and fleeting opportunities.  They must show compliance with a growing regulatory burden and more layers of regulation at national and international levels, while also reducing operating costs.  Companies must be able to serve customers who...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNET]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNETRE: The Competitive Imperative of Learning | BNETIn the classroom environment, when a student feels he or she can offer an answer without the fear of being wrong they engage in the conversation.  They are willing to make mistakes that will lead to...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Sep 2008 07:11:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Bush urges passage of US-Colombia free trade deal]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[WASHINGTON AFP &#8212; US President George W. Bush on Saturday urged US congressional leaders to reconsider their opposition to the US-Colombia free trade deal, calling its approval "a strategic imperative."  "Our markets are open to Colombian products, but barriers that make it harder to sell American goods in Colombia...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Apr 2008 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[A Reading List for a Human Workplace]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The pressure in the business world is intense. Global competition and uncertainty, combined with high Wall Street expectations, can drive managers to a single-minded focus on streamlining their teams to improve the bottom line.    Yesterday, Gill Corkindale, in his "Letter from London" column for the Harvard Business...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2007 11:04:58 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Called beyond selfishness]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since many of us have worked hard to convince Congress that legislating for the common good is a moral imperative, it is heartening to see a rising interest in the concept. Joe Feuerherd's article on the common good (NCR, Aug. 25) raises important cautions, however. Translating a term like the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Managing a Competitive Imperative: Achieving High Performance With Effective Offset Deals]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=255151]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Challenged by relentless pressure on their resources and the continuing need to focus on core operations, most contractors see offset as a distraction. They fail to see it as a vehicle to accelerate the development of overseas markets and their own operating capabilities. As a result, they fail to leverage...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jun 2006 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Benedict XVI vows to pursue dialogue with Jews]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_kmafp/is_200506/ai_n14754956]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[VATICAN CITY AFP &#8212; Pope Benedict XVI has vowed to pursue better relations with Jews, following a path set by popes Paul VI and John Paul II.  "My predecessors Pope Paul VI and, in a particular way, Pope John Paul II, took significant steps towards improving relations with the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Loyalty and Competitive Advantage: Breakthrough Work in the Area of Customer Loyalty]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=153279]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Customer loyalty has become an even more strategic imperative for firms. As the economy shifts and revenues begin to decline, customer retention is an absolute imperative for companies. Customer acquisition is expensive. Declining revenues almost always translate into shrinking budgets and companies are not in the position to mount sizeable...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Top Five Imperatives for Banks in 2005]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=145530]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The paper outlines that banks are realigning their businesses and strategies to adapt to developments in the external environment and it is important that they strike a balance between continuity and change. This involves five main imperatives in 2005: Basel II Compliance, Resource Optimization, Information Security, Shareholder Value and Customer...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Energy Trading & Risk Management - Top 5 IT Imperatives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=167591]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The pre-Enron era saw trading assume centre-stage. Industry deregulation, the birth of Enrononline in November 1999, and the subsequent birth of ICE in March 2000 (and ICE's takeover of the International Petroleum Exchange in 2001), were all important milestones in the trading-centric era. Derivative trading rose astronomically and industry players...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Mar 2005 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Humanism and the Studia Humanitatis after 9/11/01: rethinking the anthropologos.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb300/is_200501/ai_n18218361]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[But if man is to find his way once again into the nearness of Being  he must first learn to exist in the nameless. In the same way he must  recognize the seductions of the public realm as well as the importance  of the private. Before he...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Intel Executives Outline Imperatives for All-Day Mobile Computing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[SAN FRANCISCO -- Intel Corporation executives today outlined four imperatives for bringing all-day, anytime and anywhere wireless mobile PC computing closer to reality. These imperatives include new mobile PC platform capabilities, industry collaboration to drive all-day battery life, optimizing software applications for mobile computing, and the evolution of one smart,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Sep 2004 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Chipping at the core of justice: our law promises every litigant one bite at the apple. The Supreme Court, apparently conscious of Adam's fateful chomp, has been doing its best to keep civil rights claimants from getting theirs.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb6658/is_200404/ai_n26576530]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The Supreme Court has been limiting Americans' ability to seek  remedies in court. In doing so, the Court has eroded important  principles of the Constitution and of the common law that undergirds it.    Worse, the Court's jurisprudence has infected doctrine in the  states. (1)...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Employee Life Cycle: A Roadmap For Aligning HR Strategy To Organizational Imperatives]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=137162]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Organizations seeking to align their people strategies to organizational imperatives must remain committed to a sound strategy for achieving this end. This article presents a framework based on the 'employer life cycle' that can give HR professionals a means by which to better align their program and practices to the...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Enhancing Your Check 21 Business Case: The Compelling ROI With Straight Through Check Processing and the Imperative for Re-Engineering in Response to Check 21]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=143782]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Today's business landscape is constantly changing. Change can mean opportunity-but only if one has the information required to make critical decisions. The press has recently trumpeted the prodigious cost savings associated with image-based interbank clearing and settlement of checks. With the certain and proximate passing of Check 21, identifying these...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Insurance Outlook and Strategic Agenda: 2004 and Beyond]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=157326]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This report provides an overview of the general environment that insurers face, and the strategic, technological, and organizational imperatives that they will have to address in order to thrive in this environment. It depicts that the insurers need to focus on three key strategic areas in order to be successful:...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2003 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[An interview with Philip Berrigan]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1295/is_2_67/ai_97910060]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Rothschild, the editor of The Progressive, interviewed Philip Berrigan in 1996. Here is a snippet.  Q: How many times have you been arrested?  Philip Berrigan: I don't know, well over a hundred, I guess.  Q: It's getting to be like an occupation.  Berrigan: It's a...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, it has been observed that many people are planning to switch jobs at high pace. Most companies are worried about the aforesaid trend prevalent in corporate world. Researches indicate that not only are workers changing jobs frequently, but the economy is also creating new jobs. Hence, companies...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Ethics and information systems: Resolving the quandries]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5858/is_200207/ai_n23806460]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract The information systems (I/S) community is becoming concerned with questions of ethical behavior in many realms. But those who attempt to resolve the quandaries may find themselves confused by differing approaches and theoretical assumptions that are often proffered. This paper provides a meta-framework that identifies the areas of convergence...]]></description>
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