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		<title>Costs Of Silence</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pity the poor manager whose motto is &#8220;no news is good news&#8221;. It&#8217;s quiet in his office because it&#8217;s all happening at the water cooler as his employees discuss their complaints and issues with their peers. 
Sometimes this reluctance to talk to the boss is because employees are fearful of the outcome if they raise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis</title>
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A born storyteller, Michael Lewis shows us how things really worked on Wall Street. The bond traders were presiding over enormous changes in the world economy. Lewis&#8217;s job was to transfer money, in the form of bonds, from those outside American who saved to those inside America who consumed. In doing so, he generated [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Liar's Poker by Michael Lewis</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[About 10 years ago, I was living in California and decided to pay someone from an investment bank to provide advice on where to invest my hard earned savings. I figured the investment bank had been around for a long time and since it was making money, I would too. Oh, if only I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Your Time Well Spent?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all come to work hoping to get things accomplished. Yet many of us I suspect, have days when we go home feeling &#8220;I got nothing done&#8221;. How come? Well, if you&#8217;re a typical manager, much of your day is spent dealing with conflict. Studies show many managers spend over 40% of their day dealing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons from Marie</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine, &#34;Marie&#34;, develops training programs for her clients.&#160; Recently, she ran a program and encountered a very hostile participant. Luckily, Marie is quite skilled at managing conflict and she was able to get her program back on track but she was amazed that all the people sitting in the training room remained [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to Resolution Turning Conflict into Collaboration by Stewart Levine</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 19:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
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What is the greatest impediment to productive and satisfying business and personal relationships? According to empowerment guru Stewart Levine, it&#39;&#39;s inadequate conflict resolution. Levine&#39;&#39;s seven-step model integrates two skills essential for success &#8212; collaboration and conflict resolution &#8212; and emphasizes the importance of a shift in attitude, assumptions, and approaches when facing a problem.
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		<title>Essential, Now More Than Ever</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Since October last year, close to 300,000 Canadians have lost their jobs and it&#39;s predicted that number will grow as the months pass. In times of economic uncertainty, those tasked with running organizations often behave in very predictable ways:
&#8226;&#160;Decision making is limited to a handful of people at the most senior levels of the organization.&#8226;&#160;Spending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting to Resolution Turning Conflict into Collaboration by Stewart Levine</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to Stewart Levine, &#34;Many people have difficulty accepting that life is filled with surprises, conflict, disappointment, and unmet expectations. These things happen-consistently and predictably.&#34; It&#39;s easy to fall into the conflict is &#39;bad&#39; trap and in his book, Getting to Resolution, Turning Conflict into Collaboration, Levine reminds us that conflict and problems are opportunities: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cleaning Up Our Psychic Environment</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2008 16:45:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joe Stanford is one of Common Outlook&#39;s consultants. Recently, he was invited to be a speaker at The Canadian Association for the Club of Rome CACOR. The following is his presentation. 


Cleaning Up Our Psychic Environment- How We Can Reduce the Psychological Pollution Which Fuels Conflict&#160; 


CACOR&#39;s impressive website says that CACOR exists to promote [...]]]></description>
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		<title>By Way of Introduction</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:59:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you just starting to work with Common Outlook Consulting and for those we&#8217;ve worked with many times, you&#8217;ll be familiar with the men and women who are the public face of Common Outlook. People like: Peter Hiddema, our founder, David Eaves, Gary McDougall, Amy Elizabeth Fox, Richard Dash and Jim Tull, among [...]]]></description>
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