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	<title>The Business of Management</title>
	<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt</link>
	<description>All about the issues that arise when workforce issues converge with business management.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 23:05:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Survey Says: Does Anyone Know How Workers Really Feel?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/19/survey-says-does-anyone-know-how-workers-really-feel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:59:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Trends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Motivating Employees]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I seem to get a lot of surveys sent my way, and I try to write in this blog about the most interesting, insightful and noteworthy ones that cross my desk. 
But, there’s always a caveat emptor quality to a lot of this research. That’s because you never really know how well the survey was set up, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stupid Management Trick: When All Else Fails, Apologize</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/18/stupid-management-trick-when-all-else-fails-apologize/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/18/stupid-management-trick-when-all-else-fails-apologize/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 20:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Stupid Management Tricks]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate BS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve learned a lot of hard lessons in my many years as a boss and manager, and here’s one of them: You’ll never go wrong betting on the certainty of top executives to show off their hubris, arrogance and ego at exactly the worst possible time.
It takes a lot of confidence—some have less charitable terms [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Boss Basics: It Doesn’t Pay to Hire Eeyore, but Tigger Isn’t Always the Answer, Either</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/16/boss-basics-it-doesn%e2%80%99t-pay-to-hire-eeyore-but-tigger-isn%e2%80%99t-always-the-answer-either/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:01:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate BS]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Employee Engagement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recruiting]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management Skills]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, I get asked this question a lot, and it is akin to asking about the occupant of Grant’s tomb: Where can I go to find great advice about managing a workforce?
This question usually gives me a headache, and once I get done pointing out this blog and my monthly “Last Word” column [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Passion for the Job Is Generally a Good Thing, Until Somebody Throws a Punch</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/04/passion-for-the-job-is-generally-a-good-thing-until-somebody-throws-a-punch/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/04/passion-for-the-job-is-generally-a-good-thing-until-somebody-throws-a-punch/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 20:34:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reputation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Recession]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[The Future of Work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Politics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Workforce Trends]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[workplace violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Culture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In this overly litigious day and age, there aren’t many workplace acts left that are so over the line that they qualify as drop-dead, you’re-fired-on-the-spot, no-additional-proof-needed offenses.
In fact, there’s only one that readily comes to mind as I think back over a long career of managing far too many people who seemed hellbent on doing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bullying Beefeaters: Bad Behavior at the Tower of London</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/03/bullying-beefeaters-bad-behavior-at-the-tower-of-london/</link>
		<comments>http://workforce.com/wpmu/bizmgmt/2009/11/03/bullying-beefeaters-bad-behavior-at-the-tower-of-london/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Hollon</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Reputation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[workplace violence]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[business etiquette]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Ethics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Dealing with bullies in the workplace is one of those management topics that never seems to grow old, mainly because bullying behavior is probably as old as the workplace itself.
Bullying is also one of those workplace problems that never, ever really goes away, as you can see from this Dear Workforce question from earlier this [...]]]></description>
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