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		<title>The power of a shout out:  Is Bill Gates the most influential man in the world?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I remember when the most common thing I heard about Bill Gates came from the IT guy in our office. Frustrated by a bug in the latest version edition of Windows or some other Microsoft product, he’d mutter, “Bill Gates is the devil.” 
What a difference a decade makes. 
Bill Gates has become our generation’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/09/the-power-of-a-shout-out-is-bill-gates-the-most-influential-man-in-the-world/</link>
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		<title>Will today’s oil rig explosion shift focus away from BP? Don’t bet on it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As we mark the five-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, another tragic event just occurred off the shore of Louisiana – an oil rig owned by Mariner Energy exploded earlier today in the Gulf of Mexico several hundred miles west of the site of BP’s infamous Deepwater Horizon disaster. 
The people of Louisiana have had more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/09/will-today%e2%80%99s-oil-rig-explosion-shift-focus-away-from-bp-don%e2%80%99t-bet-on-it/</link>
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		<title>When did staying connected move from convenient to obsessive?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I am on PTO….and I’ve readied this post  in advance as a challenge to myself, to see if I can stay at least somewhat disconnected…except for emergencies.  The question is…what is an emergency, when you are an addict?
The funny thing is, I resisted getting a Blackberry.  When our then head [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/09/when-did-staying-connected-move-from-convenient-to-obsessive/</link>
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		<title>The Forms of Compensation Any Company Always Can Afford…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My job has gotten me up close and personal to lots of CEOs….so I’ve observed and counseled leaders of all kinds.   And while my job is technically to advise them on communications strategy, there is often great crossover between leadership and communications.   I’ve had those tough moments when I’ve had to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/the-forms-of-compensation-any-company-always-can-afford%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>$10 billion reasons that new BP CEO’s job just got tougher…</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BP’s new CEO may be getting more than he bargained for.  It seems that he doesn’t just need to clean up a spill in the Gulf….he needs to clean up a culture that accepts, or even encourages cutting safety corners, downplaying problems and only communicating when you get caught.   
Apparently, lack of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/10-billion-reasons-that-new-bp-ceo%e2%80%99s-job-just-got-tougher%e2%80%a6/</link>
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		<title>One Bad Apple Can Spoil the Barrel…But Whose Barrel is getting spoiled in the Mott’s case?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been intrigued by the labor issue between Mott’s and its workers in Rochester.  Here you have a company posting healthy profits and asking for wage and benefit reductions at the bargaining table.  To be fair, much of what I read comes from the Union, because Mott’s isn’t saying much.  However, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/one-bad-apple-can-spoil-the-barrel%e2%80%a6but-whose-barrel-is-getting-spoiled-in-the-mott%e2%80%99s-case/</link>
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		<title>Will uber-popularity ultimately become Twitter’s Kryptonite?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Can you remember life before Twitter?   What began as a forum for 20-somethings to share the most mundane aspects of their lives has morphed into a 140 character Jack of all trades.
People win things on Twitter.  We have the Twitter Diet.  Twitter Dating (Flitter), Twitter Job Hunting and networking.  It’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/will-uber-popularity-ultimately-become-twitter%e2%80%99s-kryptonite/</link>
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		<title>In sports, a big ego leads to a big downfall</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How long does it take for a professional athlete to lose his good name in the wake of a bad decision?  If you apologize immediately, you take your hits but ultimately lose nothing.  If your ego gets in the way, there is no turning back.
As Roger Clemens’ indictment came down yesterday for perjury [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/in-sports-a-big-ego-leads-to-a-big-downfall/</link>
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		<title>VACATION AS A LEADERSHIP TOOL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This morning I heard an interesting survey on the radio about people who don’t take their vacation time….apparently almost 50% of Americans aren’t taking their vacation time due to fears about job security.   Sounded ridiculous to me…at first.   And then I remembered a client telling me that their employees were not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/vacation-as-a-leadership-tool/</link>
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		<title>American Airlines earns its bad reputation, one mechanical delay and one nasty flight attendant at a time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Apologies in advance for this long post…but you’ve got to hear it all to believe it. 
Air travel has become positively uncivilized….and really, when you pack hundreds of people into a flying tin can, there are bound to be issues.  Add a lengthy security process, crowded cabins (I know airlines are all touting leg [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.returnonreputation.com/2010/08/american-airlines-earns-its-bad-reputation-one-mechanical-delay-and-one-nasty-flight-attendant-at-a-time/</link>
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