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		<title>Freedom To Act</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:54:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a conversation last week with Dave, an exec who recently landed a new job,  I was reflecting on a previous blog post that referenced a Fortune magazine article on the reasons that corporations fail to retain their top talent.   First on the list was &#8216;big company bureaucracy&#8217;.  I asked Dave what he liked most about [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1233&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Building A Magnetic Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Feb 2012 23:16:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Sheridan, one of my good friends and the CEO of HR Solutions, has written a new book entitled &#8220;Building a Magnetic Culture&#8221;.  In this book Kevin shares the great insights he has learned about employee engagement from his firms&#8217; extensive engagement and exit survey work with hundreds of organizations.   I have listed Kevin&#8217;s book in my &#8216;Great Reads&#8217; section. Click on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1223&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Close Friends Are A Vital Part Of Your Job Search Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting snippet from an article on social network research in yesterday&#8217;s NY Times: &#8220;People whom you know but don’t communicate with often — weak ties in sociology terms — are the best sources of tips about job openings. They travel in slightly different social worlds than close friends, so they see opportunities you and your best [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1194&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Working Here Isn&#8217;t F***ing Mandatory!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 21:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The title to this post might be deceiving &#8230; it not another C&#8217;mon Moment installment.  Instead it is a short, rather funny story from my corporate past that causes me to reflect about where I work each time I think about it.   In the early days of my career, I worked for a crusty ex-marine and Senior HR Director [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1181&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Culture vs Strategy. And the winner is&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:48:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Culture wins, every time.  How many exquisite corporate strategies have you seen that have been unsuccessful because they failed to build a cultural foundation for success? And at the center of that cultural foundation are connected employees and great leadership.  THIS IS NOT ROCKET SCIENCE!!! Read some of the stories I have provided throughout my blog that share [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1103&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Chicago&#8217;s Top Workplaces &#8230; The Headlines Say It All!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 21:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was just browsing through a special Chicago Tribune magazine that focused on Chicago&#8217;s top 2011 workplaces (http://bit.ly/vM8Qj6) and the individual article headlines really say all you need to know: &#8220;Keep up the good work &#8211; recognition, respect viewed as vital to workplace satisfaction&#8221; &#8220; Engagement is the key &#8211; retailer puts money behind keeping employees [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1097&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Sad That Articles Like &#8220;Top Ten Reasons That Companies Lose Their Top Talent&#8217; Are Still So Relevant.</title>
		<link>http://3connections.wordpress.com/2012/01/29/its-sad-that-articles-like-top-ten-reasons-that-companies-lose-their-top-talent-are-still-so-relevant/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2012 23:14:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The year was 1998 and I was in my HR leadeship position with Amoco Corporation. I was invited to attend a presentation by McKinsey Consulting on &#8216;The War For Talent&#8217;.   Fast forward 13 years to an article in the December 2011 edition of Forbes entitled &#8220;Top Ten Reasons Why Large Companies Fail to Keep Their Top Talent&#8221; (http://onforb.es/sCzkZO) . [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1092&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Introducing a foolproof leadership assessment model&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://3connections.wordpress.com/2012/01/17/introducing-a-foolproof-leadership-assessment-model/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During my corporate HR leadership days I spent countless hours in meetings dissecting leadership performance, aligning leadership competencies, discussing high potentials, overseeing replacement and succession planning processes&#8230; on and on it went. Unfortunately, at every stop in my career, we never seemed to make much progress in building a stable of great leaders. One day, during a staff [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1087&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Tell Me Why I Have To Worry About This Engagement Thing&#8221; &#8230; another &#8216;C&#8217;Mon Man leadership moment</title>
		<link>http://3connections.wordpress.com/2012/01/16/tell-me-why-i-have-to-worry-about-this-engagement-thing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 17:52:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Before the holidays I met with a HR VP who works at a mid-size, privately owned company. We were discussing the cultural and leadership challenges the company was facing.  He had suggested to the CEO that there were signifcant issues emerging around employee retention and engagement. Leadership comptency was in large part to blame. He suggested that an employee survey would be a good [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Would You Get An Elephant In A Refrigerator? More interviewing and job search fun&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 17:56:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duncan Ferguson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few years ago a buddy of mine was interviewing for the top HR job in a fairly large company. One of the interviewers asked him, &#8220;If you could be a plant, what kind of plant would you be?&#8221;  Ah&#8230; the indignities one must endure during the  job search process. Check out more real life examples of ridiculous [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=3connections.wordpress.com&amp;blog=14298771&amp;post=1077&amp;subd=3connections&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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