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		<title>Mindmapping Eats Balanced Scorecard for Lunch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Dec 2011 08:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen one of these Balanced Scorecard bubble charts?  If its like the one I&#8217;ve been seeing lately it looks like an example from &#8220;top ten things never to do with PowerPoint.&#8221;  The late Steve Jobs would hate it&#8230;but I digress.  The real problem with them is that they just become another mind-numbing chart. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=209&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go ahead &#8211; stick it out there!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Nov 2011 07:02:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I worked with some young pros recently who inspired this article. When was the last time someone senior to you had to reel you in? In military circles you might hear &#8220;man you really stuck your &#8212;- out there and got it chopped off.&#8221;. Well, I say good for you! I&#8217;m certainly not talking about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=204&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflection Improves Us</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 06:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reflection. We don&#8217;t do much of it. Why not? Don&#8217;t we all complain about how busy we are and long for a break? Well&#8230;take one..daily preferably, but at least weekly. Personal reflection can accomplish a number of things, but most of all it helps you learn from the interactions you&#8217;ve had with others. Are well [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=202&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Optimal Creativity and Leadership Implications</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 18:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had to good fortune to facilitate an annual strategic ideation meeting recently with a Hawaii-based training and development organization.   Like before at another workshop, I asked the 20 participants when they did their best, creative thinking.  Amazingly (tongue in cheek), none of them mentioned &#8220;while at work.&#8221;  Like audiences before, the responses included [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=152&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping Your Processes Current</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Sep 2011 22:50:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mindmaps, especially those used in real-time or collaboration modes, can keep your operational processes and/or standard operating procedures (SOPs) current.  I was demonstrating &#8220;Military Planning 2.0 with Mindmapping&#8221; to Don Lett, a retired Army lieutenant colonel, now responsible for major emergency contingency plans.  He commented on the struggle to keep SOPs current and enduring due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=195&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Honoring our long-lost warriors</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Aug 2011 12:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure today to sit next to and meet Sergeant First Class Oscar Rosales on a Delta flight this morning from Honolulu to Atlanta. He was escorting the remains of a Korean-war soldier -a corporal- to Arlington cemetery. SFC Rosales was a gentleman, professional soldier and the Corporal would have been proud to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=194&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do you question or dictate?</title>
		<link>http://sstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/08/22/do-you-question-or-dictate/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was speaking with a senior Army colonel yesterday comparing the effectiveness and popularity of two general officer leaders.  The junior of the two generals speaks twice as much as he listens, while the more senior officer listens twice as much as he speaks.  The later is both more popular AND is the most effective. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=188&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Military Planning 2.0 with Mind-Mapping</title>
		<link>http://sstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/military-planning-2-0-with-mind-mapping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 May 2011 23:17:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have not had a real breakthrough in planning processes for a long time.  Military planners have long had a 1/3-2/3 rule that says for any given mission, senior planners or headquarters elements take 1/3 of available time to plan and give 2/3 of the time to subordinate units or commanders for preparing to execute [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=178&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Office Rules: &#8220;Getting it Done&#8221; meets sensitivity</title>
		<link>http://sstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/office-rules-getting-it-done-meets-sensitivity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 19:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A short note today about managing in the office for efficiency. Making email work for you:  If your email box gets overloaded quickly, set up some rules in your office whereby email messages must be prefaced with a few key letters.  I use the following: &#8220;FA:&#8221; &#8211; means &#8220;for action.&#8221;  This is for a boss [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=174&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Walk out with something done</title>
		<link>http://sstrategies.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/walk-out-with-something-done/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 02:40:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve followed my articles at all you&#8217;ve noticed my inspiration for them comes from real contacts.  I caught up with an old friend who is now a regional executive with one of the top 3 pharma companies in the world.  I relayed to him why I decided to add deBono Thinking Systems to my [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=sstrategies.wordpress.com&amp;blog=9183929&amp;post=157&amp;subd=sstrategies&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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