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		<title>As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Four)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/11/17/as-a-leader-your-personality-is-everything-part-four/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:16:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If somebody gives you feedback that surprises you, how should you respond? Defensively?&#8230; dismissively?&#8230; aggressively? Of course not. Here&#8217;s how.
In last week&#8217;s installation of this series , I emphasized a key point: Feedback Is A Gift . In order to understand how other people perceive your personality and your behaviors, you need to be told [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report: Why ‘Green’ and Other Niche Causes are Great Career Builders</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/special-report-why-%e2%80%98green%e2%80%99-and-other-niche-causes-are-great-career-builders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just released a Special Report on the subject of Why ‘Green’ and Other Niche Causes are Great Career Builders . If you&#8217;re an avid reader of this website you&#8217;ll know that I&#8217;ve discussed the opportunities that supporting niche causes, and being seen to do so, is a powerful means of raising your profile and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/11/03/as-a-leader-your-personality-is-everything-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Nov 2008 08:49:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I began discussing the subject of Personality , and why it is important to IT leaders. Your personality is your personal brand and it&#8217;s how people, particularly your followers, will expect you to behave. Your behaviors are the root of your leadership style, and consistent behavior is what makes that style predictable by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Consider Business Readiness as an Afterthought?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/30/do-you-consider-business-readiness-as-an-afterthought/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/30/do-you-consider-business-readiness-as-an-afterthought/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:28:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[BPM]]></category>

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

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		<category><![CDATA[business readiness]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=936</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You wouldn&#8217;t talk to someone who isn&#8217;t paying attention. Nor would you make a movie if you didn&#8217;t know who would watch it. So why do technology projects often deliver to a Business who isn&#8217;t ready to receive?
Business Readiness is a loose term which can mean the Business&#8217;s ability to take on what a project [...]]]></description>
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		<title>As A Leader, Your Personality Is Everything (Part One)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/27/as-a-leader-your-personality-is-everything/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/27/as-a-leader-your-personality-is-everything/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I bet you can&#8217;t guess who this is straight away:
Age 23: lost a job
Age 23: was defeated in bid for state legislature
Age 24: failed in a business venture
Age 25: was elected to legislature

Age 26: sweetheart died
Age 27: experienced several emotional issues
Age 27: was defeated in bid to be speaker of the house
Age 34: was defeated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My First eBook Published! The Essence of IT Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/23/my-first-ebook-published-the-essence-of-it-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2008 09:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I can announce that my first eBook The Essence of IT Leadership (Volume 1) is now ready for you to download!

To download this eBook, hit the new eBooks page under Essential Reading (or just click here ).
You&#8217;ll need Adobe Reader to read this eBook (you can download Adobe Reader here if you need it )
Comments [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Forrester Research: High-Impact Innovation for IT Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/22/forrester-research-high-impact-innovation-for-it-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/22/forrester-research-high-impact-innovation-for-it-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 08:39:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I was lucky enough to go to the Forrester Research IT Forum this summer which I thoroughly enjoyed as it crystallized a lot of my thinking and shone a torch on some important issues. My immediate reaction was to look at the Industrialization of IT  , and it&#8217;s impact on the workers  within [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Even The Idiots Amongst Us Practice Leadership When&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/21/even-the-idiots-amongst-us-practice-leadership-when/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/21/even-the-idiots-amongst-us-practice-leadership-when/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=876</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re responsible for developing new leaders, or if you&#8217;re an emerging leader yourself, then don&#8217;t forget that what we learn and experience in our &#8216;everyday&#8217; lives act as strong reminders that we&#8217;re all Leaders.
Leadership isn&#8217;t something we tend to switch on and off. It isn&#8217;t something we do exclusively in the workplace either. For [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Workaholics Are Not Role Models</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/09/workaholics-are-not-role-models/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/10/09/workaholics-are-not-role-models/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 08:49:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A CEO of a reputed organization once said he has been working more than 90 to 100 hours a week for many years, and jokingly adds he should have done more. And in another reputed car manufacturing company dozens of employees and managers get cash rewards and appreciation certificates for not taking a single day [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Projects Are About People, Not Technology (According To Elizabeth Harrin)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/25/projects-are-about-people-not-technology-according-to-elizabeth-harrin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/25/projects-are-about-people-not-technology-according-to-elizabeth-harrin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2008 09:06:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=652</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post on her blog, Elizabeth Harrin shares with us some research from Forrester which (in her words) reminds us that projects are about people, not technology. 
Elizabeth Harrin is a blogger (a girl&#8217;s guide to project management) who won the ComputerWeekly 2008 IT Blog Awards in the Project Management category. Her post [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Most Inspiring Book I Have Read! Peter Drucker’s ‘The Effective Executive’</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/15/the-most-inspiring-book-i-have-ever-read-peter-druckers-the-effective-executive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/15/the-most-inspiring-book-i-have-ever-read-peter-druckers-the-effective-executive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 08:47:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=557</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I am making a bold claim: this book will inspire and surprise you. Originally published in 1966, the book remains essentially the same amazing content, although many examples shared by Drucker are updated.
Peter Ferdinand Drucker (1909-2005) was a prolific writer and management consultant who today is considered to be the father of &#8216;modern management&#8217;. He [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Major Gaffes I&#8217;ve Made as an IT Manager</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/08/5-major-gaffes-ive-made-as-an-it-manager/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/08/5-major-gaffes-ive-made-as-an-it-manager/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:49:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=500</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I can look back on my career now and laugh at some of the things I did, and in some cases I cringe like crazy to the point my toes curl up and I look like I am wearing Turkish slippers. Naivety provides great learning . In this article I am looking back at five [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unusual Cures For Boring Meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/05/unusual-cures-for-boring-meetings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/05/unusual-cures-for-boring-meetings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 09:18:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[boredom]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=449</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is not even 10:00 am on Monday morning and it is already time to rush into one of those dreadful weekly status report meetings, a ritual that started sometime in your previous birth. You know for sure that no one will have anything substantial to report, or a few trumpeters will hype up their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beware of Your Super Performers</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/03/beware-of-your-super-performers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/09/03/beware-of-your-super-performers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=389</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ If you have  the habit of reading business magazines, management books or articles you will definitely  encounter countless references about various super performers (or hyper efficient employees) that  exist in various organizations, departments, teams, etc. Of course, the  definition of a super performer is a subjective term that can vary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Penetration of Enterprise Mindmapping Tools &#038; Technology</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/26/the-penetration-of-mindmapping-tools/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/26/the-penetration-of-mindmapping-tools/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Aug 2008 09:40:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=377</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Have you used mindmapping as a communication tool? Mindmapping is not new (in fact it has been used for centuries), but it is becoming increasingly popular in business as a tool for organizing thoughts and ideas for personal use and more increasingly in teams over the enterprise. What&#8217;s more, the output of mindmapping tools are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Basics: When Good People Become Bad Bosses</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/25/brilliant-basics-when-good-people-become-bad-bosses/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/25/brilliant-basics-when-good-people-become-bad-bosses/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 05:31:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>thejendra</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[As soon as the word bad boss is mentioned most people start imagining pictures of a wicked person, a crook, a tyrant, a scheming backstabbing individual, a selfish ogre, etc. And typical textbook definitions of a bad boss is one who screams, threatens, intimidates, grabs credit, fires people, throttles people’s necks and so on. While [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Piss Off IT Professionals: Misalignment of Objectives</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/22/how-to-piss-off-it-professionals-misalignment-of-objectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Aug 2008 05:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my more popular articles recently has been &#8216;12 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Professionals &#8216; in which I shared the 12 things IT professionals hated the most about their leaders. In this article, I will be addressing one of these - when the objectives of different leaders are misaligned. 
  
 I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UPDATE: How To Ask Questions to get Great Results</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/21/update-how-to-ask-questions-to-get-great-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/21/update-how-to-ask-questions-to-get-great-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Aug 2008 05:41:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=329</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Only last week I wrote that asking questions is one of the most powerful leadership tools there is. Since then I&#8217;ve connected with an aspiring IT Manager and Author, Thejendra BS. Thejendra is based out of Bangalore, India. Thejendra wrote a great article that compliments my recent post - so I am sharing it with you.
&#8220;HOW TO ASK [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Money Isn&#8217;t Everything, According to IT Professionals (who responded)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/20/money-isnt-everything-according-to-it-professionals-who-responded/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/20/money-isnt-everything-according-to-it-professionals-who-responded/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Aug 2008 05:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just read an excellent article, written by Ann All, on the IT Business Edge website that discusses the working environment that IT professionals prefer to work in.
What I like about it is Ann&#8217;s honest view about the conclusion that IT people like to work in a positive, challenging environment. I&#8217;m pleased that IT people see [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leader, The Followers, and the Situation</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/the-leader-the-followers-and-the-situation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/17/the-leader-the-followers-and-the-situation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Aug 2008 05:04:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows that Winston Churchill was a brilliant wartime leader, bringing the UK from the depths of despair at the beginning of World War II to being triumphant alongside its allies at the end. He was the undisputed king of wartime leadership at that time. But in peacetime, less people know, he was an average [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Ask Questions to get Great Results</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/15/how-to-ask-questions-to-get-great-results/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/15/how-to-ask-questions-to-get-great-results/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:05:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=278</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Asking questions is one of the most powerful tools a leader can use. Young children use questions from an early age to find out how the world, and people, works. The great thing about questions is that they enable a leader to direct and instruct without actually giving directions or instructions, and the result of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>12 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Professionals</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/14/12-behaviors-most-disliked-by-it-professionals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/14/12-behaviors-most-disliked-by-it-professionals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Aug 2008 05:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=257</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Opinion isn&#8217;t one-sided! In response to my recent article on the 11 behaviors most disliked by IT leaders, here are the 12 behaviors most disliked by IT workers of their managers/leaders. This list was created from surveying some of the IT professionals I know and connect with from a number of countries and industries (56 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Leaders Who Create Merit-Whores</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/12/its-leaders-who-create-merit-whores/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/12/its-leaders-who-create-merit-whores/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:12:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=250</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks back I wrote about the most disliked behaviors in IT departments, and one that 80% of IT leaders felt strongly about was the rise of the Merit-Whore. A Merit-Whore is someone who persistently and unfairly takes credit for the work of a team or a subordinate. Why does this happen?
In most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders Must Exorcise The Curse of Email</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/08/leaders-must-exorcise-the-curse-of-email/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/08/leaders-must-exorcise-the-curse-of-email/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 05:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about the 11 Behaviors most disliked by IT Leaders, and #9 in that list was:
Email-itis - in other words, staff using emails rather than interacting with each other in person. The added hatred was the use of blind copy and the overuse of copy to a wide audience

What is so annoying about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Update: How To Find a Much Better IT Job, Even in Recession</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/update-how-to-find-a-much-better-it-job-even-in-recession/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/07/update-how-to-find-a-much-better-it-job-even-in-recession/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 05:32:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=231</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Following my recent article, I&#8217;ve found an excellent article on the HBS Working Knowledge website which discusses the tendencies of women who are finding it easier to move jobs and maintain their star profile.
This article shares the results of research that shows that females are generally more apt at switching jobs and preserving their &#8217;shine&#8217;, when compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do You Know If You Live Your Organization&#8217;s Values?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/02/do-you-know-if-you-live-your-company-values/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/08/02/do-you-know-if-you-live-your-company-values/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Aug 2008 05:57:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=182</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Good leaders know what they value and what their values are, and they recognize the importance of ethical behavior. The great leaders consistently and recognizably exhibit their values and ethics in their leadership style and actions. But what about the values that your organization declares it honors in corporate brochures, office posters and standard desktop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Behaviors Most Disliked by IT Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/31/11-behaviors-most-disliked-by-it-leaders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/31/11-behaviors-most-disliked-by-it-leaders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 05:52:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=175</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I met with 20 CIOs and other senior IT leaders over dinner and we approached the subject of behavior in their departments. We went around the table sharing the behaviors we would most like to see the back of. So I noted them down to share with you.
I should first say that, of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Successfully Share Your Vision for IT</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/29/how-to-successfully-share-your-vision-for-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/29/how-to-successfully-share-your-vision-for-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jul 2008 06:14:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Successfully sharing your vision for technology in your business is a constant challenge.  If there was a silver bullet to this, it would be worth more than its weight in gold (nice metaphor, eh?)
The IT vision isn&#8217;t something owned only by the CIO, it is a product of many people in the organization. Once [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why IT People Don&#8217;t Move Jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/why-it-people-dont-move-jobs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/25/why-it-people-dont-move-jobs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 06:11:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The average tenure of an IT professional in an organization is still around two years on average, but there are exceptions where workers stay around what seems forever. Why?
I know of several dedicated, experienced IT professionals in the US, UK and South Africa that are in a &#8216;trap&#8217; - i.e. they feel stuck in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Painful Reminder About Change Management</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/a-painful-reminder-about-change-management/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/24/a-painful-reminder-about-change-management/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:16:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>simonstapleton</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=143</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When you&#8217;re headlong into a programme of work which requires significant process change, it is so easy to forget about the people the processes have an effect on. I&#8217;ve just realized this to my dispeasure!
Right now I am involved in a programme of working changing IT delivery processes, that covers the standard ITIL approach of Release [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Prefer to Work with Darkworkers than &#8216;Greyworkers&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/23/why-i-prefer-to-work-with-darkworkers-than-greyworkers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/23/why-i-prefer-to-work-with-darkworkers-than-greyworkers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 06:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/?p=139</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Lightworkers   and  Darkworkers  are rare(ish) people who are polarized around a deeply ingrained intent. Lightworkers live and breathe to service humankind, whilst Darkworkers live and breathe to serve only themselves. The remainder of people on this earth could be described as Greyworkers, who tend not to know who they serve.
I&#8217;ve written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SOA Demands Different Leaders</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/soa-demands-different-leaders/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jul 2008 07:17:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) isn&#8217;t a new concept, but its emergence in organizations is demanding transformational leadership to be applied at all levels.
I&#8217;m assuming you already know about SOA, but I want to recap one important point. The nature of SOA is that it demands server-based technology functions, such as an accounting suite, to become the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is the Road to Hell is Pathed With a Leaders Good Intentions?</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/13/is-the-road-to-hell-is-pathed-with-a-leaders-good-intentions/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/13/is-the-road-to-hell-is-pathed-with-a-leaders-good-intentions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 07:39:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A leader&#8217;s word is their bond. That&#8217;s what their followers expect, but when that commitment continually fails, it&#8217;s a slippery slope.
Has your boss ever agreed to deliver something, and then let you down? Annoying isn&#8217;t it? A position of leadership is a privilege and a responsibility, and that responsibility is to create the environment for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Enabling Action-Orientation with Collaborative Technologies</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/11/enabling-action-orientation-with-collaborative-technologies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jul 2008 06:40:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Web2.0 and collaborative technologies promise a new world of integrated thought leadership. However they are not without their flaws.
There are three key weaknesses in the typical use of collaborative technologies. The weaknesses are in the way decisions are made that lead to action.

Decisions are made by committees. The larger the group of contributors to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Web 2.0 Enabled Followership: Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/10/what-type-of-follower-are-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/10/what-type-of-follower-are-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 07:41:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Leader isn&#8217;t a Leader without Followers. This is convention, but do you know what type of Follower you are, and what type of Followers do you have as a Leader?
Take a look at this HBS Working Knowledge article which discusses the various categories of Follower - although it&#8217;s important to understand that a Follower&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Shocking Truth of Bypassing Your Boss</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/04/the-shocking-truth-of-bypassing-your-boss/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:05:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I surveyed a number of Technical Professionals on the subject of going around their boss. The results were surprising.
Going around your boss is generally frowned upon - it&#8217;s ethics are questionable. Ethics and business don&#8217;t always go together, even if you think they should. The truth is, an organization is comprised of humans with their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Top Tips That Will Improve Morale in the IT Ops department</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/07/02/10-top-tools-that-improve-morale-in-the-it-ops-department/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your IT Ops team productive and always on top of their game? No? Then maybe it&#8217;s their morale that needs a boost.
There are some simple, low-cost and very effective things that can be done to improve this, and you&#8217;ll see that morale and productivity is boosted:

Invest in information boards:Using the traditional dot-matrix panels or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How IT Leaders Can Get The Most Out Of Developers</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/29/how-it-leaders-can-get-the-most-out-of-developers/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2008 19:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not going to take credit for all of this post&#8230; I was inspired by Esther Schindler &#8217;s article on CIO.COM titled &#8216;Managing and Motivating Developers: Tips for Management Cluefulness .&#8217; The subject is close to my heart as over the last 8 years I&#8217;ve been doing exactly that. I&#8217;d also say that Esther&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 More Tips for Aspiring Execs&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/26/10-more-tips-for-aspiring-execs/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/26/10-more-tips-for-aspiring-execs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re an aspiring CIO or CTO then you have to keep on your game CONSTANTLY . But it isn&#8217;t always about being clever. It&#8217;s about doing a number of simple things well, and continuously.
I post a number of articles about career progression from the shop floor to the board room table, and below is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Prepare for the Future of IT Organization, or Be Left Behind</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/17/prepare-for-the-future-of-it-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 13:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just come from the Forrester IT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, and discovered a number of insights that crystallized some thoughts I’d been having for a while. One of these insights that resonated especially was the future of IT Leadership and the potential fork in the road of the IT career path.
During the last few [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delivery is still the top concern of Execs!</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/12/delivery-is-still-the-top-concern-of-execs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jun 2008 09:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been mixing with some of the top Execs (CIOs, CTOs, Heads of IT) over the last few days at the Forrester IT Forum in Lisbon, Portugal, and I&#8217;ve had a number of conversations about the top issues they face.
Not surprisingly, delivery is still the key concern.

What I discovered though is that this issue varies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Phenomenal Power of Enablement: Implications for Corporates and Individuals</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/06/06/the-phenomenal-power-of-enablement-implications-for-corporates-and-individuals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 16:16:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might think that Web 2.0 was set to totally disrupt and displace the big players in the IT industry. New players have risen in the last 15 years; Google, Amazon, eBay, Facebook, Myspace, to name but a few. All these new guy’s propositions are based on amassing large volumes of data on individuals and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stimulate Technical Innovation</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/05/22/stimulating-technical-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 12:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote about creating technical innovation in a regimented world. The main thrust of this post covered the issues in building a framework for creativity in organization’s that are very risk-averse and structured around established methods. The framework I discussed is a potential management mechanism for moving ideas from early stages to business initiatives [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ‘mystery’ boss: why your bosses behavior may occasionally look strange</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/28/the-%e2%80%98mystery%e2%80%99-boss-why-your-bosses-behavior-may-occasionally-look-strange/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 16:37:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been intending to write about this for a while, so when it was suggested by a reader (John Lau) I feature this subject I took my fingers to the keyboard. This is a subject I’ve experienced myself and is also the cause of much stress and anxiety in a number of people I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Using Chaos to Organize large scale programs and projects</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/16/using-chaos-to-organize-large-scale-programs-and-projects/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 11:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I frequently see and hear about how organizations struggle with the planning of programmes or large scale projects, as is often the case nowadays, they involve the integration of many partners, business units, mavericks, doubters and in summary complexity. The complexity, at first, creates chaos which manifests itself as overwhelming dependencies and uncertain delivery dates. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;art&#8217; of Opening and Closing meetings</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/04/07/the-art-of-opening-and-closing-meetings/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You might consider this subject more general than technical matters, and you’d be right. Although actually I am writing about the opening and closure of meetings about technical subjects, whether they be about discussions, reviews, decision making or methodology. If as a technical professional and a host of meetings you’ve felt that your meetings haven’t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you spot a bad CIO? (&#8230; or CTO, or IT Director, or IT Manager, or Head of IT)</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/03/23/can-you-spot-a-bad-cio-or-cto-or-it-director-or-it-manager-or-head-of-it/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/03/23/can-you-spot-a-bad-cio-or-cto-or-it-director-or-it-manager-or-head-of-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 19:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was perusing the CIO.com website and found a good article which covers the traits of a &#8216;bad CIO&#8217;. If you forgive CIO.com&#8217;s annoying paginated delivery of content, you might enjoy reading this. I think it applies not just to bad CIOs, but as I suggested in the title it can apply to spotting anyone [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going for a curry or tacos may do more for you than your hunger</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/going-for-a-curry-or-tacos-may-do-more-for-you-than-your-hunger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:42:28 +0000</pubDate>
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I&#8217;ve coined the phrase &#8216;Going for a curry or tacos&#8217; as a euphemism for getting out with your colleagues over dinner to &#8217;socialise&#8217; ideas and problems.
It&#8217;s really about getting out of the office environment where formal positions and behaviors are established and enforced, and getting together with colleagues (from various levels) to chew over some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Excuse Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/no-excuse-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Below is a link to a great article that discusses No Excuse Leadership, which I think you should read. Why? Well I think it discusses an important aspect of leadership (and I stress leadership and not management) - creating a vision that inspires an organization to break down resistance to change and to set behavioral [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfectionism vs Pragmastism: Career Implications</title>
		<link>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/perfectionism-vs-pragmastism-career-implications/</link>
		<comments>http://www.SimonStapleton.com/wordpress/2008/01/09/perfectionism-vs-pragmastism-career-implications/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2008 10:26:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a debate I often see in technical circles, mostly between technicians and their less technical managers or stakeholders. It’s a debate that often leads to conflict or a reduction in morale or motivation in each party. It has career implications too; as technical leaders aiming to build a career, its something we need [...]]]></description>
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