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		<title>Do You Have a Job, a Career, or a Calling?</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/05/15/do-you-have-a-job-a-career-or-a-calling/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 10:23:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first job I had out of high school was as a dishwasher for a white-tablecloth Italian restaurant during the late seventies. My industrious best friend worked there, and he said it would be a good place to earn some spending money. Plus, some foxy girls would be waitressing, and maybe we could get to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=5075&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Skimming Through Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 May 2012 10:38:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes feel as if I have been skipping along some superficial turf for the past several years. The frenetic pace of my brain has been like a pinball machine rather than grounded, fertile well-plowed spiritual soil. That hamster wheel in my head is constantly churning, getting things checked off the never-ending to-do list with [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=5066&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working Too Many Hours is Sick. Literally.</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/05/03/working-too-many-hours-is-sick-literally/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 10:16:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ambition]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Investment banking]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Workaholism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A new study was reported recently in the Wall Street Journal which followed the exploits of 24 freshly minted MBA’s over a ten year period as they entered the investment banking field. Typically these ambitious folks enter their jobs working 100-hour weeks, convinced they have the ticket to the big leagues. Within four years, every [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=5056&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Becoming a Fully Present Leader</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/30/becoming-a-fully-present-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 10:47:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Next week, May 6 and 7, I will be participating in the fourth annual Leadership &#38; Spirituality Summit at Princeton Theological Seminary, sponsored by A New Equilibrium. I know its late notice, but would sure love to see you there if you can make it. There&#8217;s still time to sign up! The promotional blurb follows. &#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=5047&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Surprised by Avocations: You Are Not Defined By Your Job Alone</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/22/surprising-avocations-your-career-alone-will-never-fulfill-you/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/22/surprising-avocations-your-career-alone-will-never-fulfill-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 23:13:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Jeff is a buttoned-up finance guy in his late thirties who manages a business unit for a large corporate behemoth. We go to the same church, I see him and his wife occasionally in social situations, and he is all of what you would expect from someone with a career in accounting: introverted, smart, quiet. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=5022&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Evolution of Christian Branding</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/17/the-evolution-of-christian-branding-2/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/17/the-evolution-of-christian-branding-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith in the Workplace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that fish-shaped thing, that cute little symbol that is supposed to be associated with Christianity? It is called the Ichthys,which is  an anagram made up of five Greek letters that mean “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Savior.” The Ichthys apparently dates back to the first and second century, when Christians had the misfortune of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=4308&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Mistake Doing What You Love With Doing What&#8217;s Important</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/10/dont-mistake-doing-what-you-love-with-doing-whats-important/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/10/dont-mistake-doing-what-you-love-with-doing-whats-important/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2012 11:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks ago, my wife texted me, “Don’t forget to buy Megamillions tickets!:)” Upon learning of the $656 million jackpot, we couldn’t help ourselves from fantasizing about a potential windfall. We’d quit our jobs. Pursue our dreams. Finally, we’d do what we loved. When the lottery numbers were drawn, ours, of course, did not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=4998&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Making Amends</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/06/making-amends/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 12:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Faith in the Workplace]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Forgiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My friend George, who runs a substantial company, received a call last week from a former employee he hadn’t seen in thirty five years, right out of the blue. “What did he want to talk to you about?” I asked. My friend shrugged his shoulders. The last time they spoke, George had fired him for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=4986&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>When Jesus Was a Consultant</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/03/when-jesus-was-a-consultant-2/</link>
		<comments>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/04/03/when-jesus-was-a-consultant-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Apr 2012 12:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked as a management consultant for fifteen years before settling down with the company I am currently with. Like attorneys and used-car salesmen, consultants are subject to their fair share of derision and ridicule. I honestly couldn&#8217;t tell you why, since it is such a fine and upstanding profession. The truth is, being a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=4977&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Read My Lips</title>
		<link>http://shrinkingthecamel.com/2012/03/28/read-my-lips/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 10:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>shrinkingthecamel</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Managing People]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine, an older, distinguished gentleman, has this habit of trying to predict and finish my sentences. For instance, when I start a conversation, he’ll interject these vocal micro-blips while I’m speaking, as if he was just about to say the exact same thing. Me: “We were on the verge of closing the Colosco [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&#038;blog=4134332&#038;post=4962&#038;subd=shrinkthecamel&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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