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        <title><![CDATA[New input method?]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-394019-3695382]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[Is this a new way to feed information to your people?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Murfski-19971052791951115876031193613182]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2012 08:52:15 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[How old?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[My 45 y/o son and 36 y/o daughter do not have a clue as to who Rizzo was and what he did!Remember, he served as Mayor from 1972 to 1980.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mperata]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Wed, 22 Aug 2012 12:35:10 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Too young?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I'm 53.  How old would one have to be to remember this guy?  My point isn't one of age, it's that local references may not connect with national or international audiences.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:49:58 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[bingo, maybe that will be my follow-on]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I like the &quot;how to avoid being a jerk.&quot;  thanks, I will suggest to Jody Gilbert, and hope she likes it too. I appreciate it.  As far as the &quot;positive&quot; vs. &quot;negative,&quot; I think I have covered it before, do a google search for me with tech republic.  Thanks.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Calvin T Sun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:58:21 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[doing his job?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Am I supposed to feel badly about it?If the boss fired him (and I don't know either way), then address your comment to the boss, not to me.  Besides, if he did get fired, what does that say about whether he really was &quot;doing his job&quot;?  I was there, he was rude, and I reported truthfully what I experienced.  I pointed out that this guard's actions potentially could cost the organization, because his behavior could easily alienate potential residents.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Calvin T Sun]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Mon, 20 Aug 2012 23:56:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Rizzo]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;your first point assumes everyone outside the Philly metropolitan area has a clue who Rizzo was and the significance of the ex-cops being from his era.&quot;For those too young to know who Rizzo was think about the cowboy edition in Arizona: Sheriff Joe Arpaio.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mperata]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 19:23:17 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[An interesting article ...what's the follow up?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I liked the article, but at the end was left feeling &quot;where's the punchline?&quot;.  Yes, there was a nice concise summary, but I was left wanting more. I was left feeling a bit sad at the opportunities lost here, rather than fulfilled with more to go on.Please don't get me wrong, the illustrations were interesting and useful and I can see good material here in helping others. But it felt like a build-up rather than a whole article.  If there is a follow-on &quot;Tactics to avoid being a jerk&quot;, or &quot;FIM avoidance&quot;, perhaps 10 things to do with your words to be positive rather than negative ..magic!  If not, now that you have taken up the baton, and led us here Calvin, where are you taking us?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[mark@...]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 17:36:06 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[While it wasn't stupid,]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[your first point assumes everyone outside the Philly metropolitan area has a clue who Rizzo was and the significance of the ex-cops being from his era.What's stupid is when national entertainment media make references to various areas in NYC as if everyone in their audience has a working knowledge of that city's geographical layouts; and the cultural significance of each block, borough, boulevard, bridge, and 'burb.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[CharlieSpencer_Palmetto]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:55:46 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Lessons learned?]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[#1 Avoid downtown Philadelphia - the security guards are all ex-police officers descended from the Rizzo administration. #2 &quot;10 stupid things I've heard people say&quot; is probably one of the 10 stupid things I've heard people say.  We all have a day when we say 10 stupid things before lunch (If you don't think so I'm sure somebody else does).  Maybe there are better things to collect?]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Billb114]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 10:26:18 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[I always love it ...]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-394019-3693865]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[... when someone at work predicates a sentence with &quot;it's nothing personal, but ...&quot;Whatever follows that statement, I am now virtually guaranteed to take it personally ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[5haggi]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 07:59:22 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[#8]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[So you probably got a guard fired because you say he was rude, he didn't know you and he was doing his job??......]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Aldinho]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 05:43:53 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[10 stupid things I've heard people say]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Many years ago whilst working in the Arabian Gulf  in the mid 1980s I dropped a real faux pas at a weekly project meeting which I was chairing, as the assistant GM of the company. I said whilst wrapping up the meeting &quot;In these weekly meetings there are now too many chiefs and not enough Indians&quot;  .Now I must explain that the company I worked was a very successful professional IT company (wasn't called an IT company in the day)  which consisted of about 75% mostly very professional Indian nationals. The GM was a fact an Indian national. Around the table were approximately 15 people. The project meetings had in fact initially been made up started off 8 members directly involved in three particular projects. Over time the core involved members positions at the meetings had been usurped by their managers and supervisors, not directly involved in the projects. Hence my faux pas.Imagine the reaction of the members, including the GM who was present, around the table including the laughs of mirth from two Brits other who were present. As you said in you blog think carefully before putting you foot in it!!AfricanPete]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Africanpete]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 02:51:09 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[At the end of the day....]]></title>
        <link><![CDATA[http://www.techrepublic.com/forum/discussions/102-394019-3693750]]></link>
        <description><![CDATA[.... it gets dark.I suppose I can be a bit of a pain, but when I hear 'At the end of the day...' followed by a brief pause, I love to get 'it gets dark' in. The speaker hates it; the sufferers (sorry, of course I mean Listeners) love it.One I overheard once was 'There is no 'I' in 'Team' - to which a colleague behind me whispered 'No, but there's a U in Doofus'.*Actually he used a far worse word beginning with 'C', but I couldn't repeat that here.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Snak]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 01:36:55 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[More Stupidity]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I was moved under a new, young manager who regularly failed to pitch for meetings without notifying the team he would not be attending. He also had to drop his children off every Thursday morning, making it a standing arrangement that he would be late on Thursday mornings. One morning I walked into the boardroom and openly expressed my frustration at him not informing the team that he would not attend. A minute later I realized that it was in fact Thursday, and promptly apologized and explained that he was dropping off his kids. Apparently the apology fell on deaf ears as I was called into the boardroom the next morning and kindly told about the tongue lashing I had given a manager the previous day.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Susan.Nortje7]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:35:16 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[... but it sounded right....]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[I have a colleague who tries to use big words... but doesnt quite get it right.  My favourite is &quot;irregardless&quot;. Also in a meeting about a new data warehouse she was fulsome in her praise of &quot;this new information suppository&quot;.]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[casinoal]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:29:04 -0700</pubDate>
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        <title><![CDATA[Anything from B-school.(buzzwords in general)]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[- with that being said- at the end of the day- going forwardBeyond meaningless. I think people just tune out when they hear this garbage in a meeting. Like get on with it already. Because &quot;at the end of the day&quot;, peoples time is valuable. ]]></description>
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        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Dyalect]]></dc:creator>
        <pubDate>Thu, 16 Aug 2012 09:35:16 -0700</pubDate>
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