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	<title>Books@Work</title>
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	<description>Books@Work reviews books that are of interest to workforce management professionals.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2008 22:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Making People Your Competitive Advantage—Just Lip Service for Most Companies?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/books/2008/05/01/talent_people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 20:10:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Marquez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Turnover]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Edward Lawler starts out his new book, Talent, discussing how sick he is of hearing executives give lip service to their employees with nothing to show for it.
“Time after time I have heard senior managers say, ‘People are my organization’s most important asset’ or ‘Employees are number one in my organization.’ Sounds good, but in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Monster Advice on Recruiting</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/books/2008/04/14/monster-advice-on-recruiting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:57:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Marquez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>

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

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

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I am usually skeptical of books that promote a specific company or corporate mission. So when I began reading Finding Keepers: The Monster Guide to Hiring and Holding the World&#8217;s Best Employees, I was a bit distrustful. And as someone who covers HR, I very much doubted that this book would tell me anything that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Talent Really a Top Priority?</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/books/2008/02/28/talent1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 21:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Marquez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>

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

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[In his new book, Talent on Demand, Peter Cappelli attempts to address an issue that I would hope all companies are thinking about today: how to manage the unpredictable demand for talent.
Unlike other books on talent management, this book uses terms and examples that CEOs and CFOs can understand. Instead of just talking about turnover, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CEO Pay and the ‘Corpocracy’</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/books/2008/02/13/corpocracy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 22:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Marquez</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate Governance]]></category>

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

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		<description><![CDATA[No one could accuse Robert Monks of not having chutzpah. In the first chapter of his recent book, Corpocracy: How CEOs and the Business Roundtable Hijacked the World&#8217;s Greatest Wealth Machine &#8212; And How to Get It Back, he describes how he once stood up at an Exxon shareholder meeting and accused Lee Raymond, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders</title>
		<link>http://workforce.com/wpmu/books/2008/02/08/labyrinth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2008 19:05:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carroll Lachnit</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[work-life balance]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career Development]]></category>

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

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

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		<description><![CDATA[Whether you like her or not (and plenty of people don’t), Hillary Clinton’s showing on Super Tuesday says something about how far women have come in being taken seriously as leaders. Clinton has noted that when her 88-year-old mother was born, women couldn’t even vote.
But it would be going too far to say that Clinton [...]]]></description>
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