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		<title>Consequences &#8211; it&#8217;s not a game and they&#8217;re not optional.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you managed to escape from thinking about work over Christmas and the New Year &#8211; well, almost.
Well done you!
Now you just have to muster the will to engineer the reverse exercise. This is when you find out whether you are, what some people refer to as, a &#8217;self-starter&#8217;. The magic property which enables you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can you stop, will you stop and why?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It will be interesting to see if you can actually stop working when the moment comes.
Let&#8217;s be honest now. You and I have struggled to keep going the last couple of weeks; a mixture of fatigue (why now?? see last post), social and environmental hypnotic suggestion (twinkly Christmas effect &#8211; technical term) and a raft [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/can-you-stop-will-you-stop-and-why/</link>
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		<title>Mind that festive black hole!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How do you feel about the approaching festive season? Are Christmas and the New Year brick walls on the approaching horizon that inevitably block your business path as people just stop making decisions or are they just lines in the snow that you can cross without breaking your stride – and time to join in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/mind-that-festive-black-hole/</link>
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		<title>Some feedback on thinking &#8217;simple&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve spent the last couple of weeks talking to clients and clients-to-be about where we have found that PEC can add the most value: getting their C-suite population to have &#8216;real conversations&#8217;.
Meaning: looking at the tiny little behaviours that seem to amount to nothing at all but can make the difference between a decision that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/a-little-more-on-thinking-simple/</link>
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		<title>Do you know where to look for a solution?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My favourite shop is in the high street of the nearby town of Crabbs Cross. Teague’s Televisions doesn’t sell televisions, it repairs them.
Repairs them? But no one repairs things any more, surely. And a television? Actually, Mr Teague has also overhauled for me a favourite 25-year old Kenwood mixer and a Raclette machine that used [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/where-do-you-find-the-real-solution/</link>
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		<title>Do we have a problem?</title>
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Question: Did the boss of Kweku Adoboli, the 31-year-old UBS trader who has admitted to wiping out $2.3bn of UBS funds, ever have a real heart to heart with this trader? Did he even have a meaningful annual conversation with him concerning anything aside from the nuts and bolts of the job? I just can’t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/do-we-have-a-problem/</link>
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		<title>To be me or not to be me? (sorry Mr S)</title>
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		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/to-be-me-or-not-to-be-me-sorry-mr-s/</link>
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		<title>How to have a real conversation.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First we have the difficult conversation, the people feel awkward, go their separate ways and wait for the dust to settle. Then, at some point in the future, if the people start talking again they either apologise for their behaviour and try to move on, try to pretend that the conversation never happened at all [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/how-to-have-a-real-conversation/</link>
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		<title>We all make mistakes – or do we?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Life is complicated. Cultures are complicated. Traditions are complicated. Relationships are complicated. Conversations are complicated. We are participants in all these arenas, and many more besides and we are bound to get it wrong &#8211; a lot. The interesting question here though is what is ‘wrong’?
As children growing up in a complex world we labour [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.anicecupoftea.co.uk/2011/we-all-make-mistakes-%e2%80%93-or-do-we/</link>
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		<title>Brushing the dog &#8211; building good habits with hounds and humans</title>
		<description><![CDATA[At about 7.20 every morning I take our two Deerhounds for a run. They are brother and sister, very large and easy to care for. They love running but they love snoozing and generally lying about even more. The only problem is their coats. Cross a sheep with a grey wire scouring pad and you [...]]]></description>
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