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    <title>Friday Reflections</title>
    
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    <updated>2012-05-24T23:20:08-07:00</updated>
    <subtitle>Working Wisdom You Can Use</subtitle>
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        <title>Just Give Me the Facts!</title>
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        <published>2012-05-24T23:20:08-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-05-20T22:40:29-07:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>fridayreflections</name>
        </author>
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="3. People and Relationships" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="Film" />
        
        
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/">facts - something that actually exists; reality; truth

interpretations - to give or provide the meaning of; explain; explicate; elucidate

    The question I pose is this: can a fact ever be divorced from the interpretation of that fact? Or does the truth always lie somewhere in between&lt;br/&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>Tradition without Intelligence is Not Worth Having.</title>
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        <id>tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d834535c6c69e20167669305cf970b</id>
        <published>2012-05-17T19:33:04-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-05-17T19:40:25-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>fridayreflections</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="2. Assume Responsibility" />
        
        
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/">Years ago, in Russia, a czar came upon a lonely sentry standing at attention in a secluded corner of the palace garden.

    "What are you guarding," asked the czar.&lt;br/&gt;
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        <title>The Power Curve                                                </title>
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        <published>2012-05-10T21:36:22-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-05-10T21:42:57-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>fridayreflections</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="1. Keep on learning new skills" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="7. Performance and Results" />
        
        
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/">Thank you Mark Dennen for contributing to Friday Reflections last week and made mention about The Power Curve. And thank you to Micro CEO, a reader, who posted the following in response to Mark’s comment about The Power Curve, attaching a reference link which I found very enlightening and worth sharing: &lt;br/&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>The Treasure was the Journey Itself (and the lessons learned and shared)</title>
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        <published>2012-04-26T20:00:00-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-04-26T14:22:52-07:00</updated>
        
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            <name>fridayreflections</name>
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<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/">Recently Mark Dennen, a good friend, retired at a young age after a very successful career in sales as an executive of a multinational company.  A day before he boarded the plane to the place of retirement, Mark was gracious enough to satisfy my curiosity by sharing his experiences, lessons learned and impart the wisdom acquired through the years. Here are a few of the many things I captured.&lt;br/&gt;
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    <entry>
        <title>You Never Get a Second Chance to Make a First Impression...?</title>
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        <published>2012-04-19T20:00:00-07:00</published>
        <updated>2012-04-19T11:22:46-07:00</updated>
        
        <author>
            <name>fridayreflections</name>
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        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="3. People and Relationships" />
        <category scheme="http://www.sixapart.com/ns/types#category" term="4. Flexibility" />
        
        
<content type="html" xml:lang="en-US" xml:base="http://fridayreflections.typepad.com/weblog/">Usually first impressions are what we judge people on. Often, it is the only chance that we get to tell someone who we are. &lt;br/&gt;
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