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	<description>Proposal expert, Laura Ricci, posts musings of strategic and tactical interest. Musings of someone who wins 85% of her targets and trains proposal teams and the professionals they support... Supporting Good People Doing Great Things...</description>
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		<title>Welcome to my Test Blog</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 13:22:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Mar 2006 17:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Team Relationships and Communication Analysis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Mar 2006 16:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week I attended a workshop of Sociologists working on Social Network Analysis (SNA) and heard some great ideas for communication analysis in large organizations. They use a variety of methods (I especially like using email log files, as I&#8217;ve had success identifying virtual skills through email traffic review.) to collect data on communication, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=45&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Silly Stuff from a Fellow Blogger</title>
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		<title>Turnover</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeffry Pfeffer of Stanford University&#8217;s Graduate School of Business wrote a piece in Business 2.0 last October which I saved to comment on, The Myth of the Disposable Worker. (I just found it at the bottom of a &#8220;when you have a moment&#8221; pile on my desk.) He ralled against advocates of high turnover, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=43&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How are you like a Utility Company?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Mar 2006 12:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>HOAturnaround</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know Research Engineers who invented several interesting contraptions for energy use and distribution. But they couldn&#8217;t get any Utility Companies excited about these fabulous ideas. What gives? &#8220;You see, when someone shows us a change that might be helpful, that&#8217;s just not sufficient to take expose ourselves to the risk of change. A computer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=42&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Elasticity in Critical Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:42:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In almost every case, I&#8217;m a classic Early Adopter. I&#8217;ve had palm phones for years, high speed internet connection back when ISDN was lightning fast (and required the home phone number for 3 phone company technicians to keep it up and running.) However, when I advise senior management on mission critical teams, such as proposal [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=41&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Mar 2006 18:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Am I the only one who has issues with MS Word? (Laughter from the crowd subsides&#8230;) According to Microsoft, Word is not intended for use in creating documents over 100 pages (or 50 if you insert images). But not many proposal teams can afford to convert to Framemaker or Quark because the learning curve would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=40&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two Steps for Change</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are two elements necessary for a change activity. I was changing planes in Atlanta, and when I arrived at the gate, a line had formed for boarding passes. Naturally, a straight line was formed from the desk of the gate agent, and the agent was checking in passengers. However, the line extended beyond the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=39&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2006 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Itzy Sabo&#8217;s EMAIL OVERLOADED has a good suggestion: You can use numerals or puncuation as a prefix to sort your folders in your preferred order. For example: Proposal Bangor 1 white 2 pink 3 red 4 final Proposal: Tangier 1 pending queries 2 responses ready to include 3 editing 4 final draft Itzy is a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=lricci.wordpress.com&amp;blog=95875&amp;post=38&amp;subd=lricci&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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