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	<description>The Results are in the Team</description>
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		<title>Come Together</title>
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		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Conflict in a team setting is one of the natural hazards of the workplace. Unless you are on a project with no schedule pressure, and no technical challenges, and a single obvious way to get the job done, there will be some form of conflict (if you do happen to work on that sort of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pushing Too Hard</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 16:49:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We often make commitments to get things done within a given timeframe. Whether the time constraint was handed to you or you chose it is moot, as long as you have agreed to the commitment. If that time commitment is firm, and you find that it is not looking possible at some point, strange things [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spotting Potential Conflict</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 13:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[With almost any team endeavour, whether it is called a project or not, there will be ample opportunities for stresses to creep in, for decisions to be made that don&#8217;t make everyone happy, for things to not go according to plan. Just as with any stresses, if left unchecked there is a really good chance [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From Telling to Asking</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Apr 2010 13:24:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are a number of flavours of project management workshops I&#8217;m involved with these days, online and face to face, running the whole show or facilitating with wider participation. One thing that they all have in common is that many of the issues have to do with team dynamics, and the many ways in which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on the Craft</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:05:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell provides a rule of thumb that people will get good at their craft after they have spent 10,000 hours plying it. He talks about the Beatles and their years in small clubs in Germany, Mozart and his long tenure in music, and describes the early years of Bill Joy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Cost of Success</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In all kinds of projects, despite all the theory behind project management best-practices or &#8216;branded&#8217; methodologies or lifecycles, I would say that the majority of projects get done with more than a little &#8216;seat-of-the-pants&#8217; effort. In construction circles you will see &#8216;as built&#8217; notations on the drawings, in many projects you will see a lot [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s That PMO Doing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:52:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was running a workshop on project management yesterday, and one of the first things I did (as usual) was to go around the room to ask what people were looking for in the session. One person volunteered that back on their project, they have a PMO that drives things, and what he wanted to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intentional Influence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 17:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important consideration in projects is that, consciously or not, we all exert influence on those around us. If we are trying to make life on our projects better, we certainly effect the behaviour of others, as well as their character. We can influence them. Understanding the basis of influence and working to sharpen our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Drives Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 23:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What motivates you? Chances are that it is not one particular thing but a mix of a wide range of things. Chances are even greater that if you look at the other people on your team, their mix of important motivators are quite different from yours. If we know what motivates us in our environment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Rule of Three</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jan 2010 03:07:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Brosseau</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I first started focusing on improvement initiatives (over a dozen years ago now), the typical approach was to perform a deep analysis and come up with a big laundry list of recommended changes. That never did much more than pad the wallets of the consulting firm that provided the recommendations. For that reason alone, [...]]]></description>
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