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		<title>Will China Change the World on Its Economic Ascent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 02:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Chinese industry forge a new path to turbocharge their economic growth the wayJapandid in the 1960s through to the early 1990s with their world-changing focus on quality improvement? Or will Chinese industry simply adopt the concepts and models developed by others in the West and inJapanand present the world with the same-old, same-old? Chinese [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer Meetings Plus Better Meetings = More Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Nov 2010 17:44:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know about you, but I get my best work done at the office between 4pm to 7pm. I don&#8217;t like having to stay until 7pm, but I find that&#8217;s the best time that (a) matches my own physiological rhythms, and (b) when there are very few interruptions, if any. Meetings, in particular, can [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unfairness + Encouraging Minimalist Performance: A Surefire Way to Lose Your Employees</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 17:30:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaving the unexpectedly late from work a few nights ago, I thought back to an experience early in my working life. I had been taught all through my childhood to work as hard as possible, and that working late is to be expected. I was taught to believe that good things happen when you push [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Decide Whether To Feel Fear or To Experience Excitement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Oct 2010 01:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The mind is a wonderful thing. It is through the conscious mind that the same experience for one person may be gut-wrenchingly fearsome, and for another, an absolutely exhilarating thrill. Physiologically-speaking, arousal is arousal is arousal. Your body is primed for action when aroused. The adrenaline that courses through your body when you&#8217;re scared is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ever Considered Not Using an Office Chair at Work?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting old enough now that I actually spend time thinking about how to take better care of myself. One thing that&#8217;s been bothering me lately has been my chair at the office. Simply put, the one I use right now sucks, the one before it sucked worse, and the one before that was about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Year&#8217;s Resolutions are Intrinsically Flawed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 15:33:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every January 1, millions of people make new year&#8217;s resolutions.  They will do this, they will do that.  &#8221;I will go to the gym every day,&#8221; &#8220;I will quit smoking,&#8221; or &#8220;I will eat one handful less junk food every day.&#8221;  I don&#8217;t make new year&#8217;s resolutions any more.  They don&#8217;t work for me. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good Cookbooks Have Named Authors</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I spend money on cookbooks even though there are free recipes online, and free recipes in papers and magazines.  I spend money on cookbooks with named authors even though the compilations by Best Cooking Ever Magazine are cheaper, and compilations titled Best Asian Food Ever are easy to find.  Why do I do this?  Because [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why don&#8217;t we do AARs at work on a regular basis?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 02:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leonard Chu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AAR isn&#8217;t just a sound that your favorite pirate makes when he runs out of whisky.  It stands for After-Action Report, and it is what the business world calls &#8220;Lessons Learned.&#8221;  However, the term lessons learned is sometimes a bit too presumptuous &#8211; are the lessons really learned?  Better yet, are the lessons even really [...]]]></description>
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