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		<title>Are You Endulled? Is Your Organization?</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/07/14/are-you-endulled-is-your-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 17:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Endullment is a term coined by Ira Shor to describe what happens to people when they are not allowed to participate in decisions that affect them.  Shor applied the term to educational organizations, but it fits other organizations.  Are you endulled?  In the book Managing in a Team Environment John R. Dew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Perpetual Intermediate&#8221; &#8211; Always Be Learning</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jul 2010 15:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading a book About Face by Allen Cooper.  Mr. Cooper is an expert on user interface design.  He said that people are either beginners, experts, or perpetual intermediates as interface users.  I wondered how that might apply in realms other than usability.
When a new employee goes to work for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Biggest Cause of Serious Error&#8230;Is A Failure of Communication&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finn O&#8217;Sullivan is a project executive for a company that builds skyscrapers.  He is quoted in The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande. Those who construct skyscrapers rely on one checklist to make sure all the many steps in planning and construction are completed. 
Another checklist is used to ensure that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Be a Leader Who Inspires</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/05/19/how-to-be-a-leader-who-inspires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High performance teams have high performing individuals.   A leader of a high performance team is one who inspires, teaches, develops, and coaches.   As we consider each of those leadership functions, what does it take to be a leader who inspires?
I believe there are seven steps to consider:

Point      to a greater [...]]]></description>
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		<title>China Trip in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/01/27/china-trip-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jan 2010 03:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this year, I will be speaking at the 2010 Interpipe Exhibition and Conference in Langfang, China.  The paper I present will be about the training we provided for pipeline controllers of PetroChina.  While in China, I am happy to be doing consulting work with PetroChina.  My professional mission is to use my knowledge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Ten Books of 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always read many books, and have been good at implementing good ideas and a few bad ones too.   Some people have asked me what I read, so here are my top ten from all categories:

An Altar in the World &#8211; Barbara Brown Taylor
The Myth of Multitasking &#8211; Dave Crenshaw
The Human Contribution &#8211; James Reason
iBrain(Surviving [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Servant Leadership Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 17:06:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago, I read Servant Leadership, by Robert K. Greenleaf.   I seek to serve and lead.   Greenleaf said that the best test of a servant leader is: &#8220;Do those served grow as persons; do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants?&#8221;
He also said the test is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Men in White Clothes May Not Be Painters</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:06:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jack Brooks of Pipeline Controls and Services told me a funny story.  A contractor needed some painters to paint the outside of a large building.   Men who wanted day work congregated in an area of town.  The contractor saw four or five Hispanic men dressed in white pants and shirts, and they wanted to work.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepared for Emergencies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 00:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The youth in my class were discussing what they wore to church.  Most of the girls were wearing dresses; most of the boys had on shorts and polo shirts.  But Toby had on a suit, looking dapper.  The girls complimented him, and said, &#8220;Boys wear basketball shorts all the time.&#8221;  Toby replied, &#8220;I have basketball [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I Wish I Was 55,&#8221; Updated to &#8220;It Is What It Is&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 2007, I wrote how people at one company often said, &#8220;I wish I was 55, because I can get my pension and other retirement benefits.&#8221;   In 2009, the company and many companies have eliminated some retirement benefits, such as health insurance, and reduced salaries, 401K contributions, and other compensation.   Now employees are saying they [...]]]></description>
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