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		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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Thank you to Lynette Van Steinburg from TELUS for this video.
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:01:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:03:33 +0000</pubDate>
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This is the time of year when many businesses are deep into strategy planning. It’s the perfect time to talk about the missing piece of the strategy puzzle: execution.
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:06:01 +0000</pubDate>
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Now in its 21st year, the PROFIT 100 is the definitive ranking of Canada’s Fastest-Growing Companies. Its alumni include some of the biggest names in Canadian business, such as Research in Motion, Open Text, 1-800-GOT-JUNK? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=883&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The quickest way to measure your corporate culture.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jan 2010 18:11:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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One of the biggest challenges in corporate culture is finding ways to effectively measure and gauge the strength of your culture. Over the past decade companies have used various survey methodologies in an attempt to uncover the truth about their cultures with the most popular one being an Employee Engagement Survey. The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=875&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 15:20:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BIV Boardroom Strategy, Dec 15-21, 2009 &#8211; Corporate culture is critical to implementing business strategy
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As you start to develop your business strategy for the new year, look at all of the factors that can support it, one of which you might not have linked directly to your strategic initiatives in past years: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=860&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How can I make people care?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 15:26:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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I received an email today from a CEO the other day asking me, &#8220;Do you have any good references / literature on &#8216;how to make people care&#8217;? I&#8217;m having some employee challenges.&#8221;
I thought I would share my response with you:
&#8220;Three ways:
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:32:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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&#160;
Here is the Core Values experience I speak about in the first part of the video.
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 02:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Desjardins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges to goal planning is understanding how your goals will affect the quality of your life. Many people (including me in the past) set goals that led to outcomes they don&#8217;t want. By planning your goals around your core values you set yourself up to create the life you want while you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikedesjardins.com&blog=4482048&post=824&subd=mikedesjardins&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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