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	<description>Thoughts about how personal responsibility works in the mind</description>
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		<title>Should you &#8220;throttle&#8221; responsibility?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders who are relatively new to learning about the mind&#8217;s internal Responsibility Process™ often ask:
&#8220;What about the person who is too responsible?&#8221;
One such question landed recently after I co-presented a webinar with Zach Nies (VP Products, Rally Software) called The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality. Our message was that quality is a 3-legged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality &#8211; Webinar Replay</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:00:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was honored to collaborate with Zach Nies, VP Products, Rally Software on The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality which was apparently viewed by over 900 people on Tuesday, January 12, 2010. You can watch the replay. We present for an hour and answer questions for another 25 minutes.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you too responsible?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2010 11:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The question usually rolls out like a plea for help: What does the Responsibility Process say about someone who takes on too much? I think I'm too responsible because I take on more and more even though I can't handle more.

Because I can be a little slow, it took me years to figure out that the very best response from me was a probing question. I now reply with "Why do you take on too much?" I now predict with better than 90% accuracy what the leader will say: No one else stepped up and I felt bad it wasn't going to get done, so I had to do something.]]></description>
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		<title>Software Quality Webinar with Rally&#8217;s Zach Nies</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 23:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rally software&#8217;s VP of Products Zach Nies and I will present a free webinar The Best Kept Secret of Agile Software Quality. The date is January 12, 2010
Our premise is that software quality is a 3-legged stool composed of process, technology, and people. Most of the focus on improving quality goes into process and technology, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Gift Member Focus on Elaine McNaughton</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 18:17:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Each month I interview a Leadership Gift community member to find out what brings them to the Leadership Gift and how it impacts their life, work, and relationships. The purpose of this Leadership Gift Member Focus is to encourage and inspire other members of the Leadership Gift community.]]></description>
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		<title>Remember to Say Thank You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:48:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you ask someone a favor, and they comply. Say thank you for gosh sakes.
Does This Ever Happen To You?
There&#8217;s a good chance I&#8217;m wrong. I hope I am. He could be offline for days (sick? injured? hiking in the outback?), or maybe my email did not get through to him, or his grateful response [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Presentation slides for Software Crastmanship NA</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:39:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Download the slides for the presentation I made to SCNA. Thanks
]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership, Freedom, and Responsibility at Netflix</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 17:26:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is an excellent slide deck presentation from Netflix about how they they influence their culture. Take 5 minutes and cruise through the slides. It is meant to be read through, not presented, so you should enjoy it.
Here is what struck me about Netflicks

Kudos to Netflix for asking &#8220;Why?&#8221; about traditional HR practices like vacation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog problems fixed</title>
		<link>http://www.christopheravery.com/blog/blog-problems-fixed/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:51:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I apologize for the long lists of posts sent to subscribers of this blog today and yesterday. We&#8217;ve had server and data-base problems causing the blog to be alternately off- and on-line the last few days. We believe it is fixed now.
]]></description>
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		<title>Infant Swim Lessons &#8211; A Must Hear Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.christopheravery.com/blog/infant-swim-lessons-a-must-hear-interview/</link>
		<comments>http://www.christopheravery.com/blog/infant-swim-lessons-a-must-hear-interview/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Apr 2009 15:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Avery</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Beyond Obligation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvey Barnett]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[infant swim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Infant Swimming Resource]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[www.infantswim.com]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Press Release
WEBWIRE – Saturday, April 25, 2009
Infant swim lessons with Dr. Harvey Barnett prevent infant drowning at the start of the 2009 pool season. That’s the subject as Dr. Harvey Barnett, founder of Infant Swimming Resource, will be Dr. Christopher Avery’s special guest on the next segment of &#8220;Beyond Obligation&#8221; Barnett has invested 43 years [...]]]></description>
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