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		<title>The ultimate management survival tip</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Think of management as a service you provide to people to help them do their jobs. The customers of your management service pay with effort and loyalty. The better service you provide, the more they will pay. So ask people individually how they want you to provide your management service to them, and experiment with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Control versus influence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Management is focused on getting better control over people and results. Indeed, the word manage means control. However, the best leaders expect better control will come as a by-product of achieving more influence. Control is &#8220;in the moment&#8221; and must be continuously applied, but influence not only controls &#8220;this moment&#8221;, it helps to control the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Only dead fish follow the stream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Finnish proverb: Only dead fish follow the stream Now that really got me thinking! What do you think it means to you? What stream are you in? Where is it going? Do you just want to go where the stream takes you, or do you have your own ideas on your future? Are you dead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/only-dead-fish-follow-the-stream/</link>
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		<title>How to stop wasting your time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ask your team to identify low value work. You know, the kind of work that generates comments like &#8220;No-one ever looks at these reports&#8221; &#8220;Now we have to do it all over again&#8221; &#8220;This is never going to work&#8221; &#8220;That was a waste of time&#8221; &#8220;We&#8217;ve got more important things to do&#8221; &#8220;They changed their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why management is like golf</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You can find thousands of tips and rules for how to become a better golfer, and just as many for how to become a better manager. Most of them seem to make perfect sense. Problems start when you try to keep all those rules in your head at the same time &#8211; thus the golf [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/why-management-is-like-golf/</link>
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		<title>What is in your blind spot?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What others see in us, both good and bad, is often a blind spot. How often have you been surprised at what a friend or colleague thinks of you? So actively seek out more feedback to help increase your self-awareness, to broaden your vision of yourself. With self-awareness, and a little introspection, comes a better [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/what-is-in-your-blind-spot/</link>
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		<title>Why do you want to be like them?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Surround yourself with people you would like to be like. Why? Because you will start to see the world in the way they do, and you will develop the same strengths and behaviours. Their constant example will spur you on, and that will lead to you getting the kind of results they get in life. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/why-do-you-want-to-be-like-them/</link>
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		<title>Start as though you had finished</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You feel good when you get a job done. When was the last time you finished a job, especially a job that was difficult to do, or a job that you were reluctant to start, or a job that was boring? What did that feel like? How much better would you perform if you started [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/start-as-though-you-had-finished/</link>
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		<title>Agreement vs. Commitment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a huge difference between getting agreement from your team, and getting commitment from your team. It&#8217;s easy for people to agree on a common way forward, but it is the commitment that powers everyone to do whatever is necessary to make it happen. Leaders foster commitment. In your meetings, focus on gaining commitment, not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.peoplealchemy.co.uk/blog/management-tips/agreement-vs-commitment/</link>
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		<title>Who are you when you are not there?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I overheard some people speaking about me. I was both surprised and grateful for what they had to say. A few days later I spoke with some colleagues about someone we had just met, and we were deciding whether to do business with him. The outcome was that we will not be [...]]]></description>
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