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		<title>A Week as &quot;Guest Faculty&quot;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 22:12:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the honor to be asked to serve as &#8220;guest faculty&#8221; at a Management Excellence event this week.
I learned as much, I think, as the participants. It was a terrific experience, and I got to practice some skills myself by virtue of knowing I should at many times listen to how things were said [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=92&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Kaizen, Nietzsche, and the Fly Lady</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was driving into the office yesterday morning listening to local talk radio, the host mentioned &#8216;creative destruction&#8217; in a segment on the need for government to retool and purge itself of outdated ideas (and legislation). Creative destruction is a term made popular by economist Joseph Schumpeter to describe the creativity that springs forth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=89&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;ll Give You 30 Minutes Back in Your Day With Just Two Mouse Clicks</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 17:39:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got Outlook (or some other mail program) open, right?
Click File. Click Exit.
Now go and get some work done. Don&#8217;t reopen Outlook for at least three hours. Lather, rinse, repeat.
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Context switching is expensive for an operating system: service one program for a bit, save its state, restore the state of a second program &#8212; oh, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=81&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Management Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:43:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I had the honor of serving once again as &#8220;table coach&#8221; for five sessions at the Exploring Management Conference. (A table coach sits at a large table and leads a discussion on a given topic for about 20 minutes; then the attendees change tables and you do it again.)
First, I encourage any experienced manager [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=71&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Addressing Economic Woes through Management Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Oct 2008 02:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One need not read this post to understand the breadth and depth of the economic crisis upon us all. Banks are failing, Wall Street is crumbling, and companies all over the world are evaluating new ways to deal with long term economic hardship.

Gallup polls over the last few years have indicated that approximately 30% of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=70&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Team Morale Is Not an Events-Driven Protocol</title>
		<link>http://channelmec.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/team-morale-is-not-an-events-driven-protocol/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Oct 2008 22:05:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevenlevy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I think we sometimes try to buy rather than earn morale. 
Many companies, Microsoft included, have these things called &#8220;morale events.&#8221; They often run something like this: Take[1] the team[2] on some activity[3] and then have food[4] at the end.

In other words, they require significant time out of the office, often spent in transport.
In part [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=61&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Exploring Management, The Event</title>
		<link>http://channelmec.wordpress.com/2008/10/07/exploring-management-the-event/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Oct 2008 01:25:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the goals of ChannelMEC is to provide some transparency into the management pipeline here at Microsoft &#8212; to discuss the roadmap to becoming a manager, and to share our collective experiences. As part of this roadmap, Microsoft offers a program called the Exploring Management Program, facilitated by the Management Development Group (MDG). Here&#8217;s [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=60&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Monthly MEC Mixer Monday Mania</title>
		<link>http://channelmec.wordpress.com/2008/09/30/monthly-mec-mixer-monday-mania/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 17:09:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday was the kickoff of the new Monthly MEC Mixer Monday (Mmmm) events at&#160; various locations around Microsoft in an effort to get localized networking off the ground. Our hope with these events is to provide a regular event at multiple locations, so that no matter where you are on campus or around the world, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=59&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Delayed Gratification</title>
		<link>http://channelmec.wordpress.com/2008/09/29/delayed-gratification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 21:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>stevenlevy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My seven-year-old wants everything now. Delayed gratification for him means a few minutes. The future isn&#8217;t quite tangible yet.
Most new managers I&#8217;ve worked with want everything now. Delayed gratification for them means a few days. The future isn&#8217;t quite tangible yet.
My seven-year-old, with much mentoring from my wife (and with insufficient help from her spouse), [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=53&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Beau Knows Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Sep 2008 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cbuck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the Management Excellence Community (MEC) Speakers Series this week, Beau Parnell from the Management Development Group here at Microsoft spoke on &#8216;Crossing the Manager&#8217;s Chasm.&#8217; Beau has spent the past 30+ years in leadership and organizational development, working in hi-tech and teaching at some of the top universities in the country. Turnout for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=channelmec.wordpress.com&blog=4837169&post=49&subd=channelmec&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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