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		<title>She who controls the agenda &#8211; Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 05:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yep, it’s that time again.  You have to get the board agenda set.  Have to work out what the heck we need to do this time.  Have to corral the chairman, the CEO, other interested parties and get them all to agree.  If you can get their attention, that is. It’s an important document, the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=253&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>This Consulting Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 06:21:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I&#8217;m standing in the middle of a big conference room and I think: &#8220;I love my job&#8221;.  I&#8217;m surrounded by a group of smart, capable, usually passionate people, and it&#8217;s as if I&#8217;ve been thrown the keys to an Aston Martin DB9 V12 Vantage, and the salesman has said, &#8220;Here, go take this for [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=247&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Now that&#8217;s a real job</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 04:21:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You may (or may not) have noticed that I haven&#8217;t posted here for a while.  I&#8217;ve had another career going &#8211; full time carer.  And it&#8217;s been, well, full time. The Squadron Leader had an accident at work.  (Anyone who knows my wife Brigitte knows why she&#8217;d be called the Squadron Leader, and it&#8217;s not [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=242&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>To tell or not to tell – what’s in your personal brand?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Nov 2011 06:28:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Horribly wishy-washy.”  That was the email response I got from my client Bob to a proposal which he had requested for a NFP board he is on, and which I had spent a couple of hours crafting. Bob expanded his views in a subsequent phone call.  “What are you trying to do, sound like some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=230&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Avoiding strategy ping-pong &#8211; finding the right place on the strategy continuum</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 04:26:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Does it ever feel like the strategic planning process is a game of ping-pong?  Management brings strategy to the board, the board doesn’t like it; management goes away for another attempt, the board still isn’t prepared to sign off. I’ve seen this occur on plenty of occasions.  One of the keys to effective strategic planning [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=225&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who are your stakeholders?  (And why would you care anyway?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 Oct 2011 01:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t you find that some words, through endless public repetition, become grating and almost meaningless?  Take for example &#8220;offshore processing&#8221;.  Haven&#8217;t we all had a gut-full of hearing that term? I got a bit like that with &#8220;stakeholder&#8221;, hearing it bandied around in all sorts of circles, whether intelligently or not.  But the concept of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=220&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Three tactics for a great board presentation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 04:43:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You can be facing a tough audience when you are presenting to a board of directors.  Since the board sits at the top of the hierarchy, the directors get to make their own rules and run their own timetable.  So if you are presenting to the board, you have to fit in with their rules [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=212&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effective conversations, part 5 – Dealing with power differentials</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 07:42:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever felt compelled to have a conversation with your boss, when you reckon they are wrong and you just might be right? My friend Donna asked me about a conversation she needed to have with her boss.  There are some current pressing issues in the organization, and the boss has been forced into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=208&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effective conversations, part 4 &#8211; giving tough feedback</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 11:09:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was rehearsing a potentially difficult conversation recently with my mate James, who is a senior executive.  He needed to pass on some tough feedback to another executive which he had received from a third party. In the rehearsal he started the proposed conversation off like this: &#8220;Steve, you&#8217;ve been doing a really good job, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=205&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Effective conversations, part 3 – coming to the conversation clean</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 01:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever feel like you have missed something important? I did an interview a few days ago, and looking back now, it feels like I was sitting there in judgement mode instead of listening mode. And in doing so I may have done just that – missed something important. I was interviewing a member of a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thezentricityblog.wordpress.com&amp;blog=25162212&amp;post=201&amp;subd=thezentricityblog&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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