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		<title>Collins and Hansen&#8217;s Great By Choice: A Story of Quality Consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 20:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Collins, author of Built to Last (2004) and Good to Great (2001), released a new compendium of his research this fall entitled Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck – Why Some Thrive Despite Them All. I was pleasantly surprised to discover that these authors have also stumbled upon the importance of quality consciousness – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=1259&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Achieve Transparency: One Approach</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 12:12:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Point 1: Transparency in business and in government means that you know what&#8217;s going on (or can find out). You have access to information about the organization&#8217;s processes and results, it is clearly presented, and it is understandable. It is difficult, if not impossible, to understand accountability when transparency does not exist. In the emerging [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=788&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The New Competitiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:02:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[AIG is falling. Bailouts are flying. All of the rules of business have changed, and the seismic shift is both electrifying and frightening. But there are opportunities to be embraced, and many of them are summed up in this article entitled &#8220;Why Small Companies Will Win in This Economy&#8220;. Here is my favorite part, a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=691&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pain-Based Change Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 20:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andrew Grove&#8217;s political commentary today in the Washington Post (&#8220;Mr. President, Time to Rein in the Chaos&#8221;) was interesting to me not because of the opinions presented, but because of his unorthodox suggestion: successful change management can emerge when leaders deliberately allow pain, then rescue the masses once the pain has become too unbearable: I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=673&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Systems Thinking Predicts Economic Collapse in 21st Century</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 03:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to some researchers, it&#8217;s the end of the world as we know it &#8211; sometime this century, in fact. Economists and policy researchers have actually envisioned it coming for about three centuries, though. The most recent tap on this subject came on March 7, 2009, when journalist and Hot, Flat, and Crowded author Thomas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=664&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Quality Makes You Recession-Proof</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/03/09/how-quality-makes-you-recession-proof/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 01:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple days ago, Sonia Simone presented an article entitled &#8220;Four Old-School Reasons Why You Can Thrive in this Recession&#8221;. The general philosophy of her insights is straightforward: It’s impossible to really see massive change when we’re still in the middle of it. But there are a handful of things you can bank on. One [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=657&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Sociotechnology, Public Policy and the Global Economic Crisis</title>
		<link>http://qualityandinnovation.com/2009/02/12/sociotechnology-public-policy-and-the-global-economic-crisis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nicole Radziwill</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Washington Post includes an article on &#8220;How We Can Restore Confidence&#8221; in our economy. Confidence, after all, is one of the energetic drivers of the economy &#8211; without it, spending grinds to a halt, and the delicate equilibrium of economic flow is jeopardized. The author, Charles T. Munger, reflects on the reasons for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=qualityandinnovation.com&amp;blog=5081318&amp;post=605&amp;subd=qualityandinnovation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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