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	<description>Thoughts about how personal responsibility works in the mind</description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s my birthday—gifts for everyone and 50% off sale</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:24:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[4/7/09 update &#8211; Sorry, the sale is over and the coupon codes below have been removed. Thousands of gifts were downloaded, viewed, or listened to during this week-long bash. Let&#8217;s do it again.
It&#8217;s my birthday and this year I&#8217;m giving the gifts&#8230;
Shared Responsibility
It&#8217;s a tough business environment. You and I know that responsibility isn&#8217;t about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Team Building Anyway?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 13:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Chief Happiness Officer writes about The top 5 reasons why most team building events are a waste of time. He says they are overly competitive, often demeaning, and don&#39;t so much build team as build aggression (my word).
No kidding.
Here&#39;s a few related views based on my experience studying team development&#8212;so I could teach it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2007 Mission 35—Responsibility Redefined supports Good to Great leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:29:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week in the Southern California mountain resort town of Lake Arrowhead a small group of senior leaders came together to launch their trek toward building a great company. I was honored to support them. And they were thrilled with their experience and the results of their meeting. Here&#39;s what my client reported to me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High Performance in Swedish</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:06:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today I was teaching Responsibility Redefined to a wonderful group of consultants at the premier Swedish consulting firm Provins Fem. I mentioned 

&#34;effective&#34; versus &#34;efficient&#34; and one of the consultants stopped me for a quick language check&#8212;as they had done all week when I used language they did not understand (such as &#34;hold my feet [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swedes &amp; Responsibility for Teamwork</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I just finished teaching Knowledge Team Leadership to a very appreciative audience from Stockholm and Gothenburg. Here&#39;s a picture of the class doing a final flip chart review&#8212;an exercise where student becomes teacher and reviews all of the material from the course with a partner in about 10 minutes. In this case it was very [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Corps contractor applauds Responsibility Redefined</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 May 2007 22:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spent Thursday in Layton, Utah, a suburb of Salt Lake City, with 100 Job Corps center directors, assistant directors, and regional and corporate executives of MTC, the largest Job Corps contractor. They operate twenty-some Job Corps centers stretching from Maine to Hawaii. Job Corps is a U.S. government training program that helps young people ages sixteen to twenty-four get a better job, make more money, and take control of their lives.]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Qualify?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 May 2007 03:22:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently examined and tuned up our qualification process, big words that mean we have some standards by which we decide whether to venture into an extended engagement with a client. Context is important, so this checklist is specifically for a Responsibility Redefined culture-building project in an IT department. Here&#39;s what I put in writing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Sweden August 2007</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 May 2007 18:45:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We just arranged a private Knowledge Team Leadership seminar in Stockholm for August 6-10 time frame and could be available the week before (July 30-August 3) for other presentations in Europe. We&#39;ll be contacting colleagues in Europe who have asked to know when I come that way, but we may not get them all, so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Modern Plastics Recognizes Power of Responsibility Redefined</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:20:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The March 2007 issue of Modern Plastics magazine recognizes Partnerwerks client ATEK Plastics for their amazing four-year turn-around story in which Responsibility Redefined played a role in re-building the culture and focusing both leadership and plant employees on a powerful language for ccontinuous improvement. Responsibility Redefined leveraged ATEK&#39;s efforts in Lean Manufacturing, Six Sigma, internal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Collaborative Leadership Basics, Part 8: Keys for Creating Designer Norms in Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Originally published by the Cutter Consortium Agile Email Advisor. Used with permission.
by Christopher M. Avery, Senior Consultant, Cutter Consortium
More in this seriesCollaborative Leadership Basics:Part 1: Why Is Collaborative Leadership Required for Agile Environments?Part 2: Develop Personal Responsibility for Team ProductivityPart 3: Get in the Same Boat TogetherPart 4: Keys to the Boat &#8212; Generating Positive [...]]]></description>
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