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		<title>The Right Decision</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:44:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginning at the end of February 2011, I earnestly began a job search. It was time for me to return to the workforce. After several months of diligently applying for positions and attending numerous interviews, I found myself with employment. Terms negotiated and I was set to start on July 11, 2011. The position: to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=69&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Value of Inclusion, Support and Planning</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 23:15:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It amazes me to read about how a major corporation’s executive management ignores the value of planning for changes, supporting and including their own managers and front line staff. Anytime the executive management realizes that changes need to occur to the business operations, it appears that they ignore the very people who can provide them [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=67&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Ideal Organization: Can It Be Real or Just A Dream?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Dec 2009 08:02:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[modern actions]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Any organization has the following components: Purpose, System Structure/Culture, Leadership Behaviors, Followership Behaviors, Training, Empowerment, Responsibility, Accountability, Compensation/Commission Structures, Job Satisfaction and Performance Reviews. Whether or not these various components are effective make the company a great place to contribute your time and talents or a place you would rather not be. During the course, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=60&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Investment&#8211;Staff, Staff, Staff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 02:14:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s case study is about another retailer&#8230;this time the Men&#8217;s Warehouse is showcased. Wow! A retailer that gets it. Right along with Southwest Airlines, Men&#8217;s Warehouse takes their staff seriously and actually cares. Training is heavy at this retailer, at least it was in the mid-1990s. If I worked there and I heard that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=58&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How The Rubber Meets the Road</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:04:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bad Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I grew up in Canton, Ohio: a place for fantic footballs fans and one of the Rust Belt towns in Northeastern Ohio. About 30 minutes north is Akron. Akron used to be known for being the Rubber Capital of the World as the world&#8217;s tire manufacturers were headquartered there. Ohio is a manufacturing state. Or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=54&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Gonna Axe Who?</title>
		<link>http://elainehirt.wordpress.com/2009/11/06/were-gonna-axe-who/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 02:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently we hear about this company laying off these workers and that company laying off those workers. Close friends and family report how they got laid off and how long they had to wait on hold with unemployment to file for benefits. I wouldn&#8217;t want to be in the boardroom when these decisions are made. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=51&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want To Be Inspiration? Do The Right Thing.</title>
		<link>http://elainehirt.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/want-to-be-inspiration-do-the-right-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 04:28:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I read several articles on men doing the right thing. Like a Marine Colonel putting his men first before the mission. Or the Army Supply Lieutenant taking care of two refugees at the risk of a dishonorable discharge. Or a CEO announcing the company won&#8217;t make projections months before he is required by law to do [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=49&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Disease of Power</title>
		<link>http://elainehirt.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-disease-of-power/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let&#8217;s think for a minute&#8230;what would be the best position to have lots of power with virtually no way of getting fired? How about being a dean? Just think&#8230;you get to make all kinds of philosophical theories, policies, gifts, power brokering and Ivory Tower thinking all the while being nice and cozy and untouchable in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=46&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Diamonds are at Harrah&#8217;s</title>
		<link>http://elainehirt.wordpress.com/2009/10/30/the-diamonds-are-at-harrahs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:29:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been living in Reno, Nevada for over 16 years. We have two Harrah&#8217;s properties close-by: Downtown and South Lake Tahoe. Anyone who has lived here for any length of time knows that Reno is a small town. It&#8217;s a small town because my people know your people who know my people. The advertising agencies [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=42&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Group Peer Pressure</title>
		<link>http://elainehirt.wordpress.com/2009/10/23/group-peer-pressure/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 00:03:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Elaine</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Holy cow! I knew that teenage peer pressure was intense but after reading this article on the pre-Iraq war intelligence, I had no idea that peer pressure could be so intense that our country was put in serious jeapordy. Oh sure&#8230;I listened to NPR talk about the reports and such but I didn&#8217;t connect to the behavior [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=elainehirt.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9412615&amp;post=40&amp;subd=elainehirt&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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