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		<title><![CDATA[Business Objectives Are Not Just For Christmas]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/12/01/business-objectives-are-not-just-for-christmas/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[  What are your objectives for 2010?  As we enter December many business leaders are pulling together their key objectives for next year. But how many of the objectives that you are currently developing will last the next 12 months?  All too often, if the first attempt...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 01:58:06 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Jenson Button: The Persistence Principle]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2009/10/20/jenson-button-persistence-pays-again/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I was delighted to see that Jenson Button won the F1 Grand Prix world championship this weekend. Not only is itÂ great to have another British winner, but it is also another brilliant example of the power of persistence.    Button, 29, won his first race three years ago...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 01:59:32 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Recruitment Agencies - Partner or Pest?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnetau.com.au/aussierules/2009/06/01/recruitment-agencies-partner-or-pest/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Like most HR professionals, I've had positive and negative experiences in dealing with recruitment agencies.    To save on costs, we first try and fill a vacant role in-house. If we're unsuccessful, we then turn to recruitment agencies to assist us finding the ideal candidate.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 23:23:55 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Tesco's Real Strategy Secret]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.co.uk/sterling-performance/2008/09/08/tescos-real-strategy-secret/]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Â     Sterling Performance's post on Tesco explains how the supermarket made the Balanced Scorecard central to its success. Yet I think it missed out a vital ingredient that I do not see in many other organisations. Persistence.    Tesco has not been using the Balanced...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:58:12 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Dealing with Failure]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thomas Edison (1847–1931) is credited with the invention of the phonograph and the electric light bulb. When asked about his numerous experimental failures, he said: "I have not failed 700 times. I have not failed once. I have succeeded in proving that those 700 ways will not work. When I...]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[Correction ran 3/7/2007: An Airport Check-in item Monday should have said the Airbus A380 test flight scheduled to land March 19 at Los Angeles International Airport will carry only a group of technicians.     DETROIT     Runway to be closed for renovation  ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Mar 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Getting your arms around marketing]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[MARKETERS HAVE LONG BELIEVED THAT THEY COULD INFLUENCE the buying habits of consumers. In fact, as the definers of both desire and taste, they took pride in creating demand. As Ford has discovered to its dismay, even what would normally be known as effective marketing can't persuade consumers to buy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Feb 2007 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Social vs. self-directed events among Japanese and Americans.(cross cultural studies)]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb284/is_200512/ai_n18871350]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Cultural expectations provide meaning to human perceptions of who-does-what-to-whom-where. However, the effects of actions directed at oneself have been much less systematically studied. This article replicates the American factorial design of Britt and Heise (1992) in a Japanese setting. The analysis demonstrates both cultural similarities and differences in psychological principles...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Near Space Fills Communications Gap]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5438/is_200511/ai_n21382977]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Extended connectivity emerges out of thin air.   The combination of a low-tech platform and a high-tech radio is extending beyond-line-of-sight communications from 10 miles to more than 400 miles. The approach employs small hydrogen balloons that are sent into the near-space realm-defined as from 65,000 feet to 325,000...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Starting A Business? The Three 'P's]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1138185]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of factors to consider when starting a business. Primary among these are the three "P"s ? Plan, Prepare and Persist. After you have selected some ideas from your brainstorming to base your business around, create a plan of attack. Once you have a plan, carry it...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Sep 2005 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Measurement of Co-Circulation of Currencies and Dollarization in the Republic of Armenia, The]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa5460/is_200501/ai_n21364058]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Abstract This paper attempts to estimate the actual de facto level of dollarization in Armenia. "Co-circulation" involves the regular use of two or more currencies within an economy. The existence of an unknown amount of foreign currency in circulation makes the outcome of domestic monetary policy uncertain. The volume of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2005 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year the RAF and the US Air Force were once again side by side over the skies of Iraq. During 21 days of combat, we demonstrated the power of organized and integrated air and space forces in joint and coalition warfare. We did not do it alone, but we...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2004 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expectations and the Monetary Policy Transmission Mechanism]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3699/is_200410/ai_n11826669]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA["For successful monetary policy is not so much a matter of effective control of overnight interest rates as it is of shaping market expectations of the way in which interest rates, inflation, and income are likely to evolve over the coming year and later. "-Michael WoodfordIn principle, the monetary policy...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Oct 2004 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Explaining U.S. federal deficits: 1889-1998]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5814/is_3_40/ai_n28929622]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I. INTRODUCTION  Seater (1993) attempted to provide a common basis for assessing empirical studies of the effects of deficit spending. He concluded that evidence of the existence of appreciable effects of U.S. deficits on macroeconomic variables is questionable. In other words, the data do not allow for a confident...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Jul 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Performance in the Hedge Funds Industry: An Analysis of Short and Long-Term Persistence]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=74751]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This study focuses on a sensible issue in the hedge fund industry, namely the performance persistence of hedge fund managers. It first analyzes the existence of relative performance persistence among individual hedge funds on a cumulative return basis. It is shown that the Specialist Credit and Relative Value investment strategies...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Persistence Addresses Top Investment Priorities for IT Decision Makers in 2002 as Outlined in Recent Study Conducted by Aberdeen Group]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Feb_25/ai_83235857]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Business/Technology Editors  SAN MATEO, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 25, 2002  Persistence Distributed Data Management Software Enables CIOs and  IT Managers To Meet Database Software Needs At Reduced Costs  PersistenceR Software, Inc. (Nasdaq:PRSW), the leading software provider of distributed data management software technology, today announced that the company is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Do Winners Repeat with Style?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://jobfunctions.bnet.com/abstract.aspx?docid=73454]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The article points that looking to history to predict the future is nothing new in the mutual fund industry. From "Select Funds" and "Star Ratings" to "Lipper Leaders," ranking systems have existed as long as the mutual fund. However, past studies have not adjusted for the investment style of the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Evidence of the North--South business cycle.(Statistical Data Included)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction and summary    This article examines the economic fluctuations of two regional  economies: the developed, industrial goods exporting countries of the  world (which I call "North") and the developing, non-fuel  commodity exporting countries (or "South"). My principal  objective is to document the salient...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Action Needed to Stem Rising Hazard of Bird Strikes]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA["We don't want to have people dead on the ground to say we have a goose problem."  - Dr. James Cooper, Ph.D., Dept. of Fisheries & Wildlife, Univ. of  Minnesota  BLOOMINGTON, Minn. - It may be better to deliberately kill a few birds  than to have...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Indicators of successful submissions to the law and social science program of the national science foundation]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qa3757/is_199801/ai_n8767741]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[This article examines the overall success of 1,428 proposals submitted to the National Science Foundation's Law and Social Science Program between 1986 and 1997. On average, proposals were successful 30% of the time. The research examined a number of variables that might have influenced the success rate. The type of...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 1998 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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