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		<title>Distractions and multitasking</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[‘Infomania’ distractions reduce intelligence and mental sharpness A 2005 HP study found that ‘infomania’ distractions from incoming email and phone calls led to a 10-point fall in respondents’ IQs &#8211; over twice the IQ drop experienced after smoking marijuana. Over half of the 1,100 respondents admitted to responding to emails immediately. The psychologist who conducted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top tips &#8211; Twitter</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Respect the social context Twitter is a social tool, used by friends to share information and engage in dialogue. Businesses can and do fit into this world, but they must respect this social context. Dan Germain, of Innocent Drinks, suggests asking whether you would welcome customers to “drop in for a cup of tea”. If [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Can “Green HR” help to save the planet?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:55:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Human resources (HR) has a role to play in building greener businesses. Its closeness to people across departments makes it arguably the best-placed business function to introduce and enforce greener working practices and change environmentally unfriendly behaviours. And while its scope may be limited to managing the behaviours of people &#8211; as opposed to directing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organising your days</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winston Churchill woke early but worked from bed until late morning. He then rose for a brisk walk and a weak whisky and soda. By early evening he was ready for his siesta, a habit he claimed allowed him to fit one and a half days worth of work into every 24 hours. Charles Darwin, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Password security</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know we should have different, long, hard to guess passwords for everything, but it’s easy to ignore such practice and favour convenience over security. And as we use an increasing number of devices, networks and services, the dangers of using one password for all get ever-greater. So, what steps can we take to improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why you should care about innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity, Innovation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Creativity is not enough When a light bulb pops up in your head, that’s creativity. Innovation is the bit afterwards. The blood, sweat and tears. The bit when you turn that idea, creation or invention into something real, valuable and successful. It’s the evolution of creativity into success. Inventor Thomas Edison is often said to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership: Defining your vision</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:49:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership, Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders must set a direction, then concentrate the attentions of everyone on it. Influential leadership author, Warren Bennis, asserts that it is crucial for business leaders to set a direction, and “concentrate the attention of everyone in the organisation on it”. This involves defining a vision for the future of your business that is clear [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plants make you feel and work better</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:48:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The argument that plants can improve a person&#8217;s well being has until now been largely speculative. But mounting research reinforces the link between green offices and stress free, productive workers. Washington State University conducted a study that found &#8211; after adding plants into a windowless workplace &#8211; participants to be more productive (12% quicker reactions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Useful marketing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:45:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing, Sales]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“Consumers hate us &#8211; the marketers and advertisers who invent new ways to spam them”, says Bob Gilbreath, Chief Strategy Officer at global marketing agency Possible Worldwide. Increasingly people will find ways to avoid unwanted marketing, Gilbreath believes, and therefore argues: “Instead of fighting this and finding new ways to annoy people, we, as business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Retail tips</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:44:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Educate salespeople In an age when consumers research online before purchase, many retailers assume that customers walk into shops purely to buy products they already know they want. But McKinsey research indicates that “as many as 40 percent of customers remain open to persuasion once they enter a store, despite undertaking extensive product research, reading [...]]]></description>
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