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		<title>Don&#8217;t Give Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 03:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It dawned on me recently listening to Herbie Hancock&#8217;s masterful remake of Peter Gabriel&#8217;s &#8216;Don&#8217;t Give Up&#8217; (Pink, Legend, Jeff Beck et Tal etc..) that there is equilibrium &#8211; at least in the music market. Allegedly, the great Mr Gabriel wrote the song as a response to the carnage which spread through Britain in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=376&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk manage the &#8220;psychos&#8221; in your management team&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there you go. I learned recently that one of the executive managers (one level from the CEO) who looked over me quite some years ago had recently died at a relatively youthful age. Apparently  there were some serious problems &#8211; some said their marriage and career hit the wall as a result of  drugs. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=374&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generation X at Work: Wise and Prudent or Past It? (Part 1)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Apr 2010 12:53:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Can people over 50 years old work with people under 30 (and vice versa)?  Its becoming a touchy subject in many places this one for a number of reasons.   For example, many developed economies are running a bit low on workers and need the Gen X&#8217;ers (and baby boomers)  - now well into their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=352&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>US Health Care Reform &#8211;  A Lesson for Post Free Market Economies</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 11:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been trying to resist commenting on the US healthcare strategy.  However, coming from a country with a reasonably sophisticated social infrastructure (I use the words carefully), I find the debate about healthcare in the US rather curious. In the PM&#8217;s homeland (a peaceful and picturesque inner suburb of West Cyberville) a minimum level [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=343&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How well are you managing staff on the factory floor?</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2010/02/24/how-well-are-you-managing-staff-on-the-factory-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 11:50:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[climate survey]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently conducted an employee climate/satisfaction survey in the warehouse of a large multinational manufacturer. We often use a paper-based survey in this type of setting where the participants have little or no access to our web based services. More importantly, its often the case that the participants have poorer language skills so they can [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=335&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vale the Newsprint Media.  My Last Reflection&#8230;.</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/11/08/vale-the-newsprint-media-my-reflection/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time ago I wrote about the problems of generating income under the internet business model due to the difficulty in controlling property rights. For example, with music and movies/DVD the marginal profit is zero because the only one copy needs to be sold for it to be freely available to all consumers. As such, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=319&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Fashions &#8211; Suit Down Unless You&#8217;re Part of the Industrial Age</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/corporate-fashions-dress-down-unless-youre-part-of-the-industrial-age/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:01:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you look around the office, do you see men and women in suits. Some are daggy, worn and crumpled and unkempt (reflecting the way they feel about the grinding job which pays the mortgage)  while others perhaps higher up in the organisation are a little smarter, perhaps trying to make a power statement. For [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=310&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Bonuses &#8211; are they getting paid to much, or is there a downside risk?</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/executive-bonuses-are-they-getting-paid-to-much-or-is-there-a-downside-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 11:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I can&#8217;t help a few observations on the current debate about salary capping. The word out on the newswire is that the big executive salaries and bonuses are coming back and there is some conjecture about whether it signifies the western economies are returning to the bad habits which brought the house of cards [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=297&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Need a Substantive Value Proposition to Fight the Big Bear</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/06/23/you-need-a-substantive-value-proposition-to-fight-the-big-bear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:21:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we have seen (yet again), greed &#8211; the achilles heel of the rational market &#8211; works its dark tricks perpetuating the bull into a rising spiral of economic mayhem.  Then, as the big bear spies the precariousness it seizes the opportunity to feed malevolently on scurrilous lechers  who grab hopelessly onto their sinking business carcasses. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=291&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get Your Employees Participating to Help Steer the Business Through the Tough Times</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/06/05/get-your-employees-participating-to-help-steer-the-business-through-the-tough-times/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Jun 2009 01:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employee participation is a tried and true path to enhancing productivity. All (and I mean all) staff have ideas about their job. OK, so some of them might not be so good but others are good and some might be fantastic. Chances are they will also have ideas about how other staff in the business [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=284&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Making a Business Profitable Part 2 (The Maverick Lessons)</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/04/25/adventures-in-business-part-2-the-maverick-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A while back I talked about the influence of Al Dunlap on my early management experience (see Adventures in Business Part 1).  The cut and burn approach to making an unprofitable business thrive.  This of course was a very 1990&#8242;s approach &#8211; primarily a reaction to the extravagence of the 1980&#8242;s globalisation evolution which placed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=132&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does the Economic Crash Really Spell the End of Staff Satisfaction and Engagement?  (Nothing&#8217;s Changed You Idiot)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 06:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently came across an article interviewing several human capital specialists about the implications of the economic crash for employee management. The gist of their collective views was that the power balance had shifted from employees to employers. Apparently &#8211; according to these wise consultant folk &#8211; employers no longer need to worry about wether [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=255&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Times are a Changing in Business</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/04/13/valedictory-the-end-of-the-post-industrial-companies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Apr 2009 07:56:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The times are changing and I put my money on the fact that they are are changing faster than most people realise. For example, if I was a young engineer with my eye on the motor vehicle industry, I am not sure I&#8217;d be putting my money on one of those mature old time vehicle [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=246&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We are doing more work in develoing Asian countries helping companies with their human resource mangement. I&#8217;m noticing a number of interesting strucural and cultural characteristics. We work with several tertiary educated generation Y Asians (including 1 Doctorate student) whose role is to translate our concepts and ideas about employee management into ideas relevant for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=234&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Hunting the Propitious Niche (Maybe don&#8217;t get your hopes up&#8230;)</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/01/30/hunting-the-propitious-niche-maybe-dont-get-your-hopes-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 09:46:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It seems a quite a few folk are searching the net hunting for a business opportunity &#8211; or at least how to find one (No&#8230; there are very few in Detroit right now..). Strangely (and I refer here with respectful wonderment) I seem to get a fair rate of searches for propitious niche ending up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=224&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Can Governments Spend Their Way Out of the Economic Crisis</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/01/29/can-governments-spend-their-way-out-of-the-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 11:03:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Of course, what to do about the current economic situation, is perplexing many Governments. It a bit like the fish after its been hooked, thrashing about as it&#8217;s reeled in to a certain death&#8230;But maybe if it can just twist and squirm it will slip off the hook to live another day&#8230; In most countries, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=199&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ooops &#8230;. They&#8217;ve made a mistake (Okay &#8211; NOT)</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/01/13/ooops-theyve-made-a-mistake-okay-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 00:29:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC Business Daily Report of 5 January 2009 suggests its not okay to make the mistakes in business.  Their on the mark. The old chestnut &#8216; if your going to try new things in business be prepared to make mistakes and learn&#8217; has got to be one of the biggest of the many furphies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=186&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Can&#8217;t Trust Nobody&#8230;(in business)&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/i-cant-trust-nobodyin-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 12:04:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there are any lessons from 2008, it&#8217;s about trust &#8211; or who not to trust. It&#8217;s a bit of an issue really, because trust is a pretty important part of doing business. In fact its the foundation of an efficient economy. If your a business, you need to trust your staff and your suppliers, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=174&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Sort of Training Should You Give Your Employees?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2008 09:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it gets down to training your staff you can waste a lot of money if your don&#8217;t think it through carefully. More than once I would overhear my staff complaining over the time consumed in training whcih took them away from their day to day tasks. Often they would come out of a training [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=149&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Boardroom Conundrum &#8211; Should Companies Walk Into the Unknown or Keep the Virus they Know?</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/12/24/the-boardroom-conundrum-should-companies-walk-into-the-unknown-or-keep-the-virus-they-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 08:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Its an interesting time around the upper echelons of many large companies with revenues crashing, credit and finance scarce. Unless you have a competitive advantage in a high demand market and/or have a low level of debt you could easily be floundering &#8211; teetering from day to day, praying that the creditors are preoccupied with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=138&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you do employee performance reviews, you should review you own performance&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/if-you-do-performance-reviews-you-should-review-you-own-performance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until the other day I had never heard of UCLA Professor, Samuel Culbert, but I&#8217;d he is a person with a considerable amount of knowledge when it comes to managing people.   His recent Wall Street Journal article, &#8220;Get Rid of the Performance Review&#8220;  raises this old chestnut with some good reasons why this process [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=100&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate diversity &#8211; Leverage the unique aspects of your employees.</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/leverage-the-unique-aspects-of-your-employees/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 12:14:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I live in a densely multicultural city.  The benefits are too numerous &#8211; wonderful varieties of restaurants and food shops, people from different cultures norms, different ways of doing things, different religions.  It makes for a rich existence.  I can go down to my local shops and buy any herb, spice or specialty from just [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=83&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/sub-prime-observations/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 07:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Amidst the sub-prime crisis its time to make some observations about the world. First, I feel a bit sorry for the press.  Imagine having to tell the story of this disaster each day in a way which creates interest, reflects the facts, has some continuity and  sells papers or television shows. In the end I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=63&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you depend on your employees, sack the managers who don&#8217;t understand them!</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/10/18/if-you-need-good-employees-sack-the-managers-who-dont-understand-them/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2008 04:09:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Employee surveys provide a window into the thoughts and perceptions of an organisations labour force that can provide a unique opportunity to take a competitive advantage Its can be frustrating for a manager to receive the results of a staff satisfaction or climate survey.  Often as not, the results are below their expectations.  The response [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=57&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How much should you spend on employee training?  (As much as you need to!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:07:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my day to day consultations with clients I get some strange questions which often reveal some underlying incompetencies in a company&#8217;s strategic and decision-making ability. One of the classics was &#8216;We need to know how much we should spend on employee training. Can you provide us with industry benchmark data which could be used [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=32&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Adventures in Making a Business Profitable – Part 1: Restructuring</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/06/26/adventures-in-making-a-business-profitable-%e2%80%93-part-1-restructuring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Propitious Manager</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 10 years ago I had just caught my first real management job at the &#8216;rather big company&#8217; (the first step on my path towards the big company some years later). Anyway, I had ended up in the &#8216;rather big company&#8217; (about five thousand employees) through a twist of fate or two. I was going [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=24&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Global Economy is Emerging</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/06/04/the-new-global-economy-is-emerging/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Propitious Manager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Asia]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[US Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Economic growth is the foundation for growing living standards. Since the second world war, the US has been the principle driver of global productivity growth. Its wealth and capacity has enabled it to grow fairly consistently and be a source of finance to stimulate production in other western countries. As a strong proponent of free [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=21&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Engagement is a Process of Discovery not a Shindig</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/05/31/employee-engagement-is-a-process-of-discovery-not-a-shindig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 May 2008 08:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Propitious Manager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[human resources]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employee management strategies]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Herzberg's Two Factor Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job engagement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job satisfaction]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A number of years ago when I worked at the big corporation, I and many thousands of other employees were herded off to an auditorium where we participated in a festive shindig – a celebration of our great company. It was a hoorah hoorah occasion designed to animate and excite us to work harder for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=19&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Recruiting Managers Using Psychological Tests &#8211; Science or Politics</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/05/13/recruiting-managers-using-psychological-tests-is-a-political-snake-oil-strategy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 13:08:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Propitious Manager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Executive Recruitment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Politics]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Psychometric Tests]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Studying psychology for some years in my past life did little more than add to my skepticism about how little we know about human nature. Yet there are whole businesses built on psychological theory &#8211; complex psychological tests which profess to assess the personality, skills aptitudes and IQ&#8217;s of job applicants. More amazing, companies actually [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=18&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Career Conundrums for the Young Generation</title>
		<link>http://propitiousmanager.wordpress.com/2008/04/29/career-conundrums-for-the-young-generation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 12:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>The Propitious Manager</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Generation Y]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business in the Future]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night teenage son interviewed the Propitious Manager as part a school project on career development. Teenage son is generation P (Pokemon and Harry Potter), normally uninterested in anything other than what can be conducted on-line or by text message (with the exception of loud guitars and amplifiers). After traversing the ups and downs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=propitiousmanager.wordpress.com&amp;blog=3264515&amp;post=17&amp;subd=propitiousmanager&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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