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	<title>Nesmith&#039;s Notes &#187; Management</title>
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		<title>7 Things Highly Productive People Do  LinkedIn</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 19:33:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ilya Pozin &#160;   Ilya Pozin recently sat down with Tony Wong, a project management blackbelt and came up with these 7 Things Highly Productive People Do. Here are his tips for staying productive: Work backwards from goals to milestones to tasks. Stop multi-tasking. Be militant about eliminating distractions. Schedule your email.  Use the phone. Work on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cloud Sprawl. How to deal with it.</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/cloud-sprawl-how-to-deal-with-it/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/cloud-sprawl-how-to-deal-with-it/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:37:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Cloud computing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mike Vizard, talks with Kent Christensen of Datalink about Cloud Sprawl and what companies can do about it.    Christensen&#8217;s recommendation is to start with a private cloud. One of the issues that many IT organizations are soon going to find themselves dealing with is “cloud sprawl.” Because it’s relatively easy to set up an account [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leonardos To-Do List : Krulwich Wonders&#8230; : NPR</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/leonardos-to-do-list-krulwich-wonders-npr/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/leonardos-to-do-list-krulwich-wonders-npr/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 14:59:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leonardo&#8217;s To-Do List looks like an early draft of a GTD list.]]></description>
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		<title>Visualize This: The FlowingData Guide to Design, Visualization, and Statistics</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/visualize-this-the-flowingdata-guide-to-design-visualization-and-statistics/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/11/visualize-this-the-flowingdata-guide-to-design-visualization-and-statistics/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:38:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A straight forward view of analyzing data and making your findings visual. They didn&#8217;t mention the part about choosing only the statistics which support your position. Or the section on how to make the data look better or worse. Perhaps it would be a good idea for folks to stop doing that. Visualize This: The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U of M accepts new group of teens to third annual Junior Entrepreneurs of &#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/05/u-of-m-accepts-new-group-of-teens-to-third-annual-junior-entrepreneurs-of/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 May 2011 18:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[May 19, 2011 – The University of Minnesota is hosting its third annual summer program designed to introduce high school students to the basics of entrepreneurship and launching a business. From June 13 through July 14 on the University campus, over 30 Minneapolis high school students will engage in active learning sessions covering business fundamentals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lasting Values and a Clear Mission</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/03/lasting-values-and-a-clear-mission/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/03/lasting-values-and-a-clear-mission/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:24:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[At a dinner party several years ago, I found myself staring, completely dumbfounded by Carl (not his real name) across the table. He asked, “Why are you looking at me like I’m from outer space?”&#160; I had no answer and clumsily tried to recover from my faux pas with, “I’m trying to figure out if [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mark Kvamme to Help Knock the Rust off Ohio</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/01/mark-kvamme-to-help-knock-the-rust-off-ohio/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2011/01/mark-kvamme-to-help-knock-the-rust-off-ohio/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Jan 2011 23:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Finance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was 1996 and the head of CKS Group was impressed enough with a young, brash guy from Los Angeles to give him a bit of Angel Funding.&#160; Eric Greenberg took that money, grabbed a few folks to get going, and put together a plan that attracted capital from Bill Davidow, Vinod Khosla, and Venetia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Comcast and Level 3 Square Off Over Netflix and Regulation</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/12/comcast-and-level-3-square-off-over-netflix-and-regulation/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/12/comcast-and-level-3-square-off-over-netflix-and-regulation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Dec 2010 22:47:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Level 3 has decided to take it’s negotiations with Comcast to the masses and the federal government.&#160; The issue is about the cost of delivering content across each other’s networks, or is it? Comcast claims it is a Peering Issue and the Netflix agreement has caused Level 3 to outgrow the settle-free arrangement the two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Changing Rules &#8211; Guardian/Trafigura Example</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/11/changing-rules-guardiantrafigura-example/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/11/changing-rules-guardiantrafigura-example/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:45:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In our ongoing series on how social media is changing the rules, will look at the 2009 example of Trafigura and the gagging order, I should say super gagging order, placed on the Guardian. The key lesson to be learned in the Trafigura case study is really an old lesson. You often get more exposure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When social responsibility pressure backfires&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/10/when-social-responsibility-pressure-backfires/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Oct 2010 21:38:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Economist’s Schumpeter columnist calls out some of the unintended consequences of NGOs and government regulations in his piece on “The Case for Business in Developing Economies”, a new book by Ann Bernstein. Ann Bernstein, the head of a South African think-tank called the Centre for Development and Enterprise, thinks that advocates of corporate social [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Globalization Passed Its Peak?</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/07/has-globalization-passed-its-peak/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/07/has-globalization-passed-its-peak/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 23:12:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The international financial crisis has thrown the forward march of globalization into question. If the United States and others can learn from the crisis and control borrowing, then the positive potential of global trade and finance may be restored. via Yes, Globalization Passed Its Peak Foreign Affairs.]]></description>
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		<title>Just Say No to Earnings Guidance</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/05/just-say-no-to-earnings-guidance/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 17 May 2010 19:32:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Joseph Fuller and Michael C. Jensen are suggesting that managers begin discussing their business’ strategy and get out of the earnings guidance game.&#160; In their recent paper, Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game, they tell managers to stay away from earnings guidance and provide information about strategic goals, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BP &#8211; What will it be: Face up and Fix it or Cut and Run?</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/04/bp-what-will-it-be-face-up-and-fix-it-or-cut-and-run/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 23:58:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Energy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[With an oil slick that is 80 miles across and 42 miles north to south just a few dozen miles from the Louisiana Coast, BP certainly has created a mess.&#160; Now the only question more important than how to stop the bloody thing from leaking is what will BP do about it.&#160; They can take [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brain Functions Improve with Age &#8211; at least some important ones do</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/brain-functions-improve-with-age-at-least-some-important-ones-do/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/brain-functions-improve-with-age-at-least-some-important-ones-do/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:11:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some important Brain Functions Improve with Age according to findings presented in HBR&#8217;s Conversation blog. In areas as diverse as vocabulary and inductive reasoning, our brains function better than they did in our 20s. As we age, we more easily get the &#8220;gist&#8221; of arguments. Even our judgment of others improves. Often, we simply &#8220;know&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wise Leaders Don&#8217;t Know Too Much</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2010/02/why-wise-leaders-dont-know-too-much-the-conversation-harvard-business-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:53:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all seen it where lots of information compiled to make a decision did little to suggest an obvious course.  And that was 20 years ago, when it took leg work to gather that information, not just a few keystrokes in your browser.  Getting stuck in analysis was a problem thousands of years ago and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increasing Carbon Productivity Tenfold</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/09/increasing-carbon-productivity-tenfold/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/09/increasing-carbon-productivity-tenfold/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2008 23:52:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In The Carbon Productivity Challenge, McKinsey &#38; Company focuses on two objectives — stabilizing atmospheric greenhouse gases (GHGs) and maintaining economic growth — and proposes the world has 50 years to increase the GDP per unit of carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e) tenfold. A task the authors equate to the productivity improvement delivered during the 100 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Buy a rug; Learn to influence</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/08/buy-a-rug-learn-to-influence/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/08/buy-a-rug-learn-to-influence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 19:52:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is the world smaller? Maybe so or maybe good ideas stick regardless of the time and distance they travel to their location. In any event, you can find the latest business thinking in far away places. If you follow Robert Cialdini, then you will want to read this story about a rug business in Turkey [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Tuned In</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/06/get-tuned-in/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Pragmatic Marketing have put together a great book describing their process for creating products and services that customers want and more importantly will buy. Tuned In is a quick read and should prove to be a valuable reference guide as you turn to your potential customers to define the products and services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redeye VC: I Don&#8217;t Know&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/redeye-vc-i-dont-know/</link>
		<comments>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/04/redeye-vc-i-dont-know/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Apr 2008 20:27:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Why do people feel pressure to have an answer for every question?&#8221; Even when they don&#8217;t know Jack, they make it up on the fly. Ten years ago our training courses included a short video clip of college students at some of the more prestigious universities speaking at length with great confidence about a subject [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Conviction or Discipline</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/conviction-or-discipline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 16:08:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[No, it&#8217;s Conviction and Discipline according to Fred Wilson, &#8220;Conviction and discipline are two sides of the same coin.&#8221; I like the view.  Similar to a great strategy with weak execution, conviction without discipline will often lead you into the ditch and will never get you to the mountaintop.]]></description>
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		<title>Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s Shareholders Letter</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/berkshire-hathaways-shareholders-letter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 23:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Berkshire Hathaway&#8217;s Shareholder Letter is a must read and this one is no exception.  Continuing last year&#8217;s scolding of the sub-prime mortgage banking industr, my favorite lines included these: John Stumpf, CEO of Wells Fargo, aptly dissected the recent behavior of many lenders: “It is interesting that the industry has invented few ways to lose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Founder Control in Public Companies a Good Thing?</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/03/is-founder-control-in-public-companies-a-good-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 16:21:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Another high profile company going public has decided to maintain control while selling a majority of the economic stakes in the company to the public.   This time it is Al Gore as a founder of  Current Media. I certainly agree, the company&#8217;s shareholders have a right to decide the control structure they want to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bonderman addresses Silicon Flatiron crowd at CU</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2008/02/bonderman-addresses-silicon-flatiron-crowd-at-cu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2008 04:46:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Speaking of the TXU purchase, Mr. Bonderman said the company was adept at running a profitable company and equally bad at politics from price increases to ecology to labor relations. These shortcomings lead tothe opportunity which focused on addressing these public concerns.Opportunities for private equity include exploiting public investorsfocus on short term focus, their dislike [...]]]></description>
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		<title>4 hour work week&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/12/4-hour-work-week/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2007 00:31:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 4 hour work week is an interesting and educational book, even for those who would not choose to work only half a day each week.  It pushes you to think about different ways to get your job done and to think differently about which activities you keep inside and which you push to others. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gazelles Growth Summit &#8211; Day Two</title>
		<link>http://dwaynenesmith.com/blog/archives/2007/10/gazelles-growth-summit-day-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2007 04:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>dwayne</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Day two included another round of interesting speakers.  We began with a horse of a different color as Paul Orfalea, Founder of Kinkos, shared his store, advice and leadership style (close the door and let the kids run the store). Then we moved on to customer satisfaction and the Net Promoter Score as described by Fred Reichheld, [...]]]></description>
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