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		<title>After the First, Pragmatism Degenerates</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2025/03/23/after-the-first-pragmatism-degenerates/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m still uncertain about the connection between Flyvbjerg&#8217;s &#8220;think slow, then act fast&#8221; and Warren Kinston&#8217;s Pragmatic phase of management culture, but that shouldn&#8217;t stop us from moving forward! Kinston points out that Simple Pragmatism, the base of organizational life, always degrades. You think it won&#8217;t, that all you need to do is keep doing what&#8217;s in front of you. ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2025/03/23/after-the-first-pragmatism-degenerates/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>First, Do Something. Maybe?</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2025/03/05/first-do-something-maybe/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2025 03:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
		<guid isPermaLink="false">https://www.manasclerk.com/?p=9727</guid>

					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you want to know how to get started, just do something!&#8221; Or, as M. Bartok Wolfe always told me, &#8220;Action is Action.&#8221; When you are getting something started — anything, really — action takes precedence. It&#8217;s not about thinking or planning: it&#8217;s about doing something. At least. it&#8217;s sometimes like that. In an ongoing business, it&#8217;s best to simply ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2025/03/05/first-do-something-maybe/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>When You Run into History, and it’s My Lai</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/11/12/when-you-run-into-history-and-its-my-lai/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Nov 2023 23:16:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Uncategorized]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Wait &#8211; did he just say had served under Lt. Calley? The Aged Relative and I had stopped at a diner somewhere in western Virginia (not to be confused with West Virginia, which is a different state) to get some food and break up my long drive. I stepped out to wash my hands, and when I returned, I saw ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/11/12/when-you-run-into-history-and-its-my-lai/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why You Have Useless Layers of Management Above You</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/10/31/why-you-have-useless-layers-of-management-above-you/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Oct 2023 20:56:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Organizations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Carl Icahn]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Non-value adding]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It struck me, after pointing out that Citi&#8217;s going from 13 levels of management to 8 was just following the emergent natural hierarchy and so just cutting non-value adding positions, that I never really said why companies get in this mess. If these positions can NEVER add value no matter who is in them, why do companies create them? Probably ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/10/31/why-you-have-useless-layers-of-management-above-you/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Why Citi is shedding 5 layers of management</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/10/27/why-citi-is-shedding-5-layers-of-management/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2023 18:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Networks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organizations]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Why is Citicorp removing 5 layers of management? If they needed 13 layers to get their old results, how in heaven can they just ditch these layers? Because they didn't need them. You NEVER need more than seven layers]]></description>
		
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		<title>Don’t reject fear. Activate Courage.</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/09/26/dont-reject-fear-activate-courage/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Sep 2023 21:26:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Peter Block]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Kinston]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The whammy has come. The boss gave you the pink slip. Your spouse says, “I’m in love with someone else.” Your doctor tells you, “You have cancer” – or, so much, much worse, says “Your child has cancer.” The cop asks you to turn around and put your hands behind your back. You answer the doorbell and there’s the military ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/09/26/dont-reject-fear-activate-courage/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Sometimes, “the closer you are to [career] danger, the farther you are from [life] harm”</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/07/21/sometimes-the-closer-you-are-to-career-danger-the-farther-you-are-from-life-harm/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Jul 2023 19:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Management]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[“You’re the only parent of anyone I know who is pushing their art kid to art school and out of nursing.” I was talking to my oldest kid, encouraging her to apply to the University of North Carolina School of the Arts High School, a residential performing arts school which also has a visual arts program. We live in a ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/07/21/sometimes-the-closer-you-are-to-career-danger-the-farther-you-are-from-life-harm/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What’s more important to job satisfaction: work language or work level? “It depends.”</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/06/04/whats-more-important-to-job-satisfaction-work-language-or-work-level-it-depends/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jun 2023 02:57:45 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Should I look for a Real Boss, one who can unpack a "stratum" more complexity than I can, who can think out farther that I can? Or should I look for a team that "speaks my language"? As always with things that are deeply true, "it depends".]]></description>
		
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		<title>How an Urban Studies course taught me that my “friends” were wrong (and I wasn’t an idiot)</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/05/31/how-an-urban-studies-course-taught-me-that-my-friends-were-wrong-and-i-wasnt-an-idiot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 May 2023 14:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Coaching]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[happiness]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It's odd how some of us get stuck in a rut of not understanding who we are. Being told to go in a direction that is antithetical to our core, we work where what we have is not what they want. For most people, this is probably nuts. If you aren't one, maybe a tale from my past will help.]]></description>
		
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		<title>So, I asked Chat GPT to write some poems about my writing….</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/04/23/so-i-asked-chat-gpt-to-write-some-poems-about-my-writing/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Apr 2023 02:14:43 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I asked Chat GPT to review the contents of this site, and using that knowledge, write some poems about Hidden High Potentials. (Which you can go research if you&#8217;re unfamiliar. I&#8217;ll wait for you here.) My first attempt was requesting a sonnet, no style otherwise: Amidst the crowds, a gem oft goes unseen, A talent shining bright, but rarely found, ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/04/23/so-i-asked-chat-gpt-to-write-some-poems-about-my-writing/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How You Talk About Deciding Affects Who Thinks You’re an Idiot</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/02/20/how-you-talk-about-deciding-affects-who-thinks-youre-an-idiot/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 22:44:38 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision-making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Kinston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[How you talk about work affects who will hire you or work with you. I was reminded of this recently. I have been talking with some senior executives at work about how to build the structure for writing complex text responses for some of our forms. They reached out because I&#8217;m an expert in the responses&#8217; topic and I&#8217;ve worked ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2023/02/20/how-you-talk-about-deciding-affects-who-thinks-youre-an-idiot/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>What To Do With Turkeys In The Company</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/04/14/what-to-do-with-turkeys-in-the-company/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2021 16:46:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;He was turkey farmed, and there wasn&#8217;t anything to do but ride it out to retirement.&#8221; We were talking about his old colleague. The guy had run afoul of his commander at the base for his insistence on following some environmental policy or other. The commander had &#8220;promoted&#8221; him to a special project with a special office. Each day, he ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/04/14/what-to-do-with-turkeys-in-the-company/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>How CEOs are Different Than Risk Pros</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/04/01/how-ceos-are-different-than-risk-pros/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2021 12:35:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hersh Shefrin, long-time Santa Clara prof and father of Behavioral Finance, points out that Lopes&#8217;s SP/A theory explains why CEOs and risk professionals have so many &#8220;what are you talking about?&#8221; moments: &#8230; my research indicates that CEOs are the most hopeful of all groups, the most apt to set specified goals, and the most likely to try to achieve ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/04/01/how-ceos-are-different-than-risk-pros/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Note: Was Jesus Poor or not? (further)</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/03/31/note-was-jesus-poor-or-not-further/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2021 20:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Although Monday&#8217;s note argues that Jesus&#8217; father was a respected craftsman, and that James, Jesus&#8217; brother, was likely either himself a Pharisee or respected by them, there is some evidence that Jesus was bereft of personal resources when he died. The Gospel accounts have many accounts of Jesus being hosted by others, or being supported by them. His disciples are ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/03/31/note-was-jesus-poor-or-not-further/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>SP/A Theory and Operational Risk</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/03/30/sp-a-theory-and-operational-risk/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:15:00 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lopes developed the SP/A Theory framework about why people make certain choices when faced with risk. These are developed through empirical studies of undergraduates, including running commentary on why they are choosing one alternative vs another. It led to one of the key insights into why we take the chances we do, and why one person may have a thoroughly ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/03/30/sp-a-theory-and-operational-risk/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Note: Jesus Wasn’t Raised Poor</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Mar 2021 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ancient texts are always interesting, in part because you often discover that you&#8217;ve been reading them wrong. &#8230; Luke attests that &#8220;every year [Jesus&#8217;] parents went to Jerusalem for the festival of the Passover&#8221; (24:1)&#8230;.. They were obviously a devout, Jewish family with the financial means to make the annual pilgrimage to Jerusalem, something few could afford. Bütz, Jeffery ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2021/03/29/note-jesus-wasnt-raised-poor/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>Does Risk Management Encourage the Abdication of Accountability by Managers?</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2020/10/20/does-risk-management-encourage-the-abdication-of-accountability-by-managers/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Oct 2020 02:22:27 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Overachievers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Nick Forrest]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Wilfred Brown]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Managers should never be allowed to abdicate their management accountabilities and authorities by having HR do what is their job!&#8221; I learned this from management guru and past president of Forrest &#38; Company, Nick Forrest (no relation) several years ago when I had the good fortune to work with him briefly. Why mention HR when in a discussion about Risk ... <div><a href="https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2020/10/20/does-risk-management-encourage-the-abdication-of-accountability-by-managers/" class="more-link">Read More</a></div>]]></description>
		
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		<title>The hidden costs of unresolved grief in employees</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2020/10/02/the-hidden-costs-of-unresolved-grief-in-employees/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Oct 2020 16:32:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Charles Dhanaraj and George Kohlrieser of the International Institute for Management Development recently addressed how executives' unresolved grief can affect both their performance and that of the firm. A discussion.]]></description>
		
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		<title>Robbie Stamp on How Grief Feels</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2020/09/29/robbie-stamp-on-how-grief-feels/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2020 14:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Grief, says Robbie Stamp in his TEDXLondon talk, "is like being thrown into a storm riven ocean." Robbie as a person is broad and deep, and speaks about how grief is experienced. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>What to say to the Grief-Stricken</title>
		<link>https://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2020/09/28/what-to-say-to-the-grief-stricken/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Forrest Christian]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2020 16:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grief]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[What do you say to someone who is grief-stricken by a death? Here's three things to say that actually mean something.]]></description>
		
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