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	<title>Alday Consulting Services &#187; Leadership</title>
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		<title>Memorial to Fallen Logger(Times Have Changed)</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/12/31/memorial-to-fallen-loggertimes-have-changed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 2010 17:28:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I hiked through the Partnach Gorge in Bavarian Germany.Â Â  Commercial logging took place there from the 1700s to the late 1800s.Â  Several loggers lost their lives.Â  There is a memorial with a separate marker for each logger.Â  This gentleman evidently plummeted into the river from one of the rock formations.Â  It reminded me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dirty Dozen Causes of Errors &#8211; Lack of Teamwork</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/11/03/dirty-dozen-causes-of-errors-lack-of-teamwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 17:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two months are left in 2010.Â  Iâ€™m sure the next two months will be hectic and hurried as you and the teams complete necessary 2010 work, and enjoy holidays.Â Â  I always found it important to remind the employees that control and operate and maintain the pipelines to remember their own personal safety and the safety [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Someone Somewhere Sees IT Coming&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/10/19/someone-somewhere-sees-it-coming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[IT is problems. Have you ever read Managing the Unexpected?Â Â  If you work in a hazardous industry, it should be required reading.Â  Karl Weick and Kathleen Sutcliffe state, on page 74, that &#8220;with every problem, someone somewhere sees it coming.&#8221;Â  Think about what people say after a problem, an accident, an error occurs. &#8220;I knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering a Team, or a Group of People</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Oct 2010 15:26:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I did some communications training last week for several groups of pipeliners.Â  These people are grouped into teams, but not all are on the field at the same time.Â  In some ways, they are individuals with specific skills, specialized knowledge, and mostly self-directed in their work.
Each person does need to speak up, be assertive, and [...]]]></description>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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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>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/?p=349</guid>
		<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>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/06/16/biggest-cause-of-serious-error-is-a-failure-of-communication/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Jun 2010 18:18:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Human Factors]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Finn O&#8217;Sullivan is a project executive for a company that builds skyscrapers.Â  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>
		<comments>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2010/05/19/how-to-be-a-leader-who-inspires/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 May 2010 03:45:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[High performance teams have high performing individuals.Â Â  A leader of a high performance team is one who inspires, teaches, develops, and coaches.Â Â  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>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Later this year, I will be speaking at the 2010 Interpipe Exhibition and Conference in Langfang, China.Â  The paper I present will be about the training we provided for pipeline controllers of PetroChina.Â  While in China, I am happy to be doing consulting work with PetroChina.Â  My professional mission is to use my knowledge and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Top Ten Books of 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2009/12/22/my-top-ten-books-of-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.charlesalday.com/v1/2009/12/22/my-top-ten-books-of-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Charles</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>

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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.Â Â  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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