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		<title><![CDATA[Learning to Appreciate Cautious Colleagues]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/02/24/learning-to-appreciate-cautious-colleagues/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Harvard Business Review's right -- financial risk management is tough at the best of times. The current crisis at the banks gives us a painful demonstration of what happens if businesses play with fire.    Risk management can become the business equivalent of sorting...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 12:58:56 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[6 Tips for Tackling New Year's Fears]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/01/08/6-tips-for-tackling-new-years-fears/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â     "Happy New Year" may sound a little hollow this year. Weâ€™ve rung it in with renewed warfare, recession, the collapse of the once-trusted financial system and widespread job losses.    There are serious concerns about gas supplies during a particularly cold winter, and worry...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:24:24 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Alternative Rules for the Office Party (Drink and Be Merry)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/12/11/alternative-rules-for-the-office-party-drink-and-be-merry/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â     Iâ€™ve just been to Leila's House of Corrections learning about the US guidelines for office parties. Normally this is a place for me to get really helpful reminders and checklists.    Today, I'm just glad that I donâ€™t have to attend Christmas parties which...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Dec 2008 08:43:34 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Three Tips for Thinking Positive]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/10/23/three-tips-for-thinking-positive/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â     We're all agreed now, even the pathologically optimistic. Business may be tough for the foreseeable future, at least in the developed world.    Already, we see our customers cutting their cost bases and controlling expenditure for the next budget cycle. This gives us a...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:09:53 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Confidence and Crisis: A Chocolate-Maker's Tale]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/10/07/confidence-and-crisis-a-chocolate-makers-tale/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[    Over the years I've been gathering an eclectic assortment of other people's wisdom in a box file.  It is a tatty collection of magazine articles, photocopies, quotations, and printouts from the internet.    The best wisdom has truth and timelessness so I read...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:54:33 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Six Starter Tips for New CEOs]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/09/09/six-starter-tips-for-new-ceos/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  Great -- you've been appointed CEO. This is not the end of your story but the beginning of a completely different one.  Personally, you may have not changed one iota, but the positional power that comes with the job title means that the people who provide you...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:04:56 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Are Gen Y's Aspirations So Different?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/09/03/are-gen-ys-aspirations-so-different/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There was a big debate in the pub last night over the BNET feature about Generation Y.    In brief our debate hinged on whether "millenials" are genuinely different in their psyche to previous generations -- if you're not sure what I mean, Global Millenial's collection of visuals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:52:34 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[7 Ways the Downturn Can Make You Wise]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/08/11/7-ways-the-downturn-can-make-you-wise/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Being well into my 40s, this current economic downturn takes me back to my early career in the late 1980s. This was the time of shoulder pads, Filofaxes, and when cut and paste involved scissors and glue.    What did I learn from working through a recession? ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:27:00 -0700</pubDate>
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