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		<title>Why Being Vulnerable is Good For Business</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week I stood up in front of 50 business leaders and spoke, in excruciating detail, about one of my biggest failures of the last few months. Then we broke for an excellent dinner. The crowd I addressed that evening was a group of leaders gathered for a dinner-discussion event sponsored by my friends at A New [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=3390&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine owns a company, and his employees get a little on edge when they see him coming their way. It’s not that they don’t like him &#8211; he just has this tendency of asking a lot of questions &#8211; and his questions usually make people a little uncomfortable. He&#8217;s never satisfied. Suppose you are feeling [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=2683&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Dealing with Complexity, Ambiguity and Failure? Congratulations. And Welcome to the Real World.</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:25:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have a saying here at my company: we like to see managers get &#8220;bloodied up a bit&#8221; before moving them into more prominent leadership roles. If we believe someone has management potential, we will intentionally put them in a situation where they will encounter extreme conflict, opposition, or just plain ambiguity (which in and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=834&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Nov 2008 19:01:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever been in a meeting, minding your own business, thinking about what restaurant you might want to go for dinner tonight, when suddenly you realize all eyes have turned to you, looking for an opinion? Except that you have no idea what they were just talking about? It&#8217;s not that you weren&#8217;t paying [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=502&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bo Pilgrim&#8217;s &#8220;Mission From God&#8221; Backfires</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 02:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did anyone catch the Oct 12 WSJ article on Pilgrim&#8217;s Pride? This $7.6 billion chicken processing company is fighting for their lives right now, with a looming bankruptcy filing and their stock in the tank at about $1.00 per share, down from $33 a year ago. Much of this turmoil is caused by the confluence [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=shrinkingthecamel.com&amp;blog=4134332&amp;post=453&amp;subd=shrinkthecamel&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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