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		<title>Factoid: &#8220;Unprecedented&#8221; drop in holiday sales?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Reuters: No Thanksgiving rest for retailers in sales race (read article) (see full size image here)]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/factoid-unprecedented-drop-in-holiday-sales/</link>
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		<title>5 Mind-Blowing Web Stats You Should Know (Harvard Blog)&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Before you read this blog post&#8230; &#8230;snag a napkin and write down answers to the following. How close did you get? Hint: you better know scientific notation. 1) # of Web sites In 1994 there were approximately 5,000 Websites. How many times more Websites are there today? 2) # of Blog posts per day On [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/5-mind-blowing-web-stats/</link>
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		<title>Negotiation: Former Secretary of State George P. Shultz (video)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stan Christensen, partner at investment banking firm, Arbor Advisors interviews former Secretary of State George P. Shultz on negotation. Christensen teaches a course on negotiation at Stanford University and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. My take I haven&#8217;t watched the entire video yet. The speaking is a bit slow and you&#8217;ll have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/george-shultz-on-negotiation/</link>
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		<title>Buffet Biggest Bet&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In his biggest bet yet, Warren Buffet (via Berkshire Hathaway) is buying a 77% stake in Burlington Northern Santa Fe (a railroad company). Do the purchase price and long-term financials make sense? I have no clue . One assumes they do unless Warren&#8217;s lost his mind.  The basic argument for rail makes sense: American&#8217;s buy stuff Stuff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/buffet-biggest-bet/</link>
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		<title>A CEO’s guide to reenergizing the senior team (McKinsey &amp; Co)</title>
		<description><![CDATA["Should you stay or should you go?"
In tough times, Boards ask this about CEOs and CEOs ask it about their teams. This article from McKinsey does a reasonably good job of framing the problems and pitfalls (e.g., getting rid of people too quickly) and the direction of a solution.

The direction, simply put, is for CEOs to manage, including managing their team's emotional states.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/guide-to-reenergizing-the-senior-team/</link>
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		<title>Toyota is Dead? Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Part 1 (Toyota is Dead? Part 1) I quoted a recent blog in BusinessWeek that suggested because Toyota had it&#8217;s FIRST quarterly loss in 70 years they needed to &#8220;&#8230;rethink supply chain technology&#8230;&#8221; A sub-heading in the same post reads, &#8220;The Limits of Lean: Why Technology Is Now a Must&#8221;. Huh? Anyhow&#8230;read my prior post for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/11/toyota-is-dead-part-2/</link>
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		<title>VIDEO: Innovation in a Disruptive Environment (Steve Jurvetson, VC from DFJ)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jurvetson, partner at Draper Fisher Jurvetson, offers perspective on the market opportunities in innovation and technology. Topics discussed include the necessity for utter market disruption, interdisciplinary solutions, and advice for those interested in working in the venture capital arena.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/10/video-innovation-in-a-disruptive-environment-steve-jurvetson-vc-from-dfj/</link>
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		<title>The Death of Character&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost everyone says they are in favor of "good" (not many people raise their hands to the question, 'who's in favor of evil'). But few people give much thought to what being in favor of "good" really means, and especially ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/08/the-death-of-character/</link>
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		<title>Toyota is dead?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to this post on Business Week, the fact that Toyota experienced it&#8217;s &#8220;&#8230;first quarterly loss in 70 years suggests a need to rethink supply chain technology&#8230; &#8216;. The post concludes that &#8220;&#8230;a tech-free Lean gospel just can’t hack it anymore.&#8221; Whoa. A QUARTERLY loss and Toyota should deep-six 70 YEARS of finely-tuned practices? AND&#8230;technology&#8211;supply chain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/07/toyota-is-dead/</link>
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		<title>RESEARCH: Listening to smart people makes you dumb.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I confess I&#8217;m skeptical of &#8220;brain studies&#8221;, but this one seems to match common experience: When an expert starts talking, people stop thinking (critically). The study entitled &#8220;Expert Financial Advice Neurobiologically “Offloads” Financial Decision-Making under Risk&#8221; and summarized by Robert Cialdini claims that &#8220;Our results demonstrate that financial advice from an expert economist, provided during [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.michaelbannen.com/2009/06/research-listening-to-smart-people-makes-you-dumb/</link>
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