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	<title>Mental Meals!™</title>
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	<description>Brain Food For Your Business!</description>
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		<title>When Bad Times Tell You About The Good Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jan 2009 14:51:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bart Gragg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Clients are lost when they are not cared for.  Worse, you won't know it until it's too late.  Be consistent with your care of your clients, which includes keeping in touch.]]></description>
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		<title>In Business It&#8217;s About WINNING - Not surviving.</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 01:15:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bart Gragg</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[What a good strategy game against poor players can teach us about business.]]></description>
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		<title>What I Learned While Writing My Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:31:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bart Gragg</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Blue Collar University]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you that ever thought about being an author let me encourage you as I was encouraged by my mentor, Jim Horan, author of The One Page Business Plan.  I started on an adventure that is still not complete.  Jim sent me the format he uses for his Executive Briefing, a short, powerful look at how and why the One Page system of planning works.

When I asked him to mentor me through the process he told he would under one condition - "Bring full-on Bart!  Don't hold back.  Write it the way you see it and we'll go from there."  Later he then encouraged me with these words - "Don't make it perfect, just get it done."

I followed all of that advice.  Here is what I learned while writing "Managing or Mangling - A Brief Plea to Executives for Sanity in Management!":
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		<title>Recognizing and Dealing With the Highly Expressive Person</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bart Gragg</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[DISC]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Remember that people are ‘blends&#8217; of different behavioral styles.  Here we focus on general terms for the expressive person. (On the DISC Behavioral Assessment they are the &#8220;High I&#8221; - Robin Williams is a great example.
Behavior:  The more expressive a person is the more they are on the move.
Their body language is movement - they [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Don&#8217;t Like Surprises</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2008 18:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bart Gragg</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[If Only I Had Done...]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[People]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Quick read on diminishing surprises during these tough economic times.]]></description>
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