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	<title>Requisite Reading&#187; Requisite Reading</title>
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	<description>Because the killer app is us.</description>
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		<itunes:summary>Because we are the killer app.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>There Is No Single Best Model for Church Organization</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/03/09/there-is-no-single-best-model-for-church-organization/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:44:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church structure]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I continue my exploration of Christian church organization, specifically focusing on U.S. evangelicals, I need to make something clear from the outset: There is no single, perfect organizational model for all churches.
You would think that this is obvious but it&#8217;s not. It&#8217;s not even obvious in business management. Elliott Jaques&#8217;s ideas of Real Boss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CR on the Duration of Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/03/08/cr-on-the-duration-of-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Mar 2010 16:57:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[job hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[unemployment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1218</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Calculated Risk has posted a couple of interesting graphs showing the variance in the lengths of unemployment over the last 40 years (U.S. only). It&#8217;s what I&#8217;ve been saying: you don&#8217;t want to go unemployed these days because those without jobs aren&#8217;t going to get new ones.
CR&#8217;s points are worth noting:
&#8230; if the level of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Megachurches are Liturgical</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/03/05/megachurches-are-liturgical/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Mar 2010 22:23:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church structure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[church organization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Megachurch service. Note vid screens and extensive stage with large band.
Photo by ori/ / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

This starts my new thing on Evangelical church organization. If you&#8217;re not interested in American Evangelicals, you may be lost.
Megachurches are most highly liturgical of any church. Those with televised satellite churches are even more so.
Confused? Thought that megachurches [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Boards Go Wrong: &#8220;It&#8217;s the Group, Stupid!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/03/04/why-boards-go-wrong-its-the-group-stupid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/03/04/why-boards-go-wrong-its-the-group-stupid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:48:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Governance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reviews - Articles]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Khurana]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[oversight]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social psychology]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1214</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A board that is probably not going to have these problems
Reviewed: Rakesh Khurana &#038; Katharina Pick. 2005. &#8220;The Social Nature of Boards&#8221; [PDF]. Brooklyn Law Review, 70(4): 1259-1285.
Back in 2005, the Brooklyn Law Review published the papers from the Corporate Misbehavior by Elite Decision-Makers Symposium, which Brooklyn Law School apparently held. Harvard&#8217;s Rakesh Khurana &#038; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hard Work Is A Necessary But Not Sufficient Cause of Success</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/27/hard-work-is-a-necessary-but-not-sufficient-cause-of-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/27/hard-work-is-a-necessary-but-not-sufficient-cause-of-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Feb 2010 20:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine made up her mind in college that she was going to be a professional singer. She worked hard at it, did the various groups, choirs and solo performances. She even went pro in a little jazz quartet with some others. 
After college, she decided to continue her studies and went to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Can Tell Your Big Secret To Success</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/20/why-you-can-tell-your-big-secret-to-success/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/20/why-you-can-tell-your-big-secret-to-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[J. Scott Armstrong]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1210</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A few years back, I took on my first ISO 9001 project. An IT outsourcing company, then still in North America, wanted to certify the Desktop Support groups at each outsource contract in the world. You can apparently just do one site and certify the operations everywhere. Upper management gave them 90 days to complete [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why There Is Never Going To Be A Silver Bullet</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/11/why-there-is-never-going-to-be-a-silver-bullet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/11/why-there-is-never-going-to-be-a-silver-bullet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Feb 2010 18:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Careers]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[human patterns]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stan smith]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Kinston]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no single, best way to solve business problems. Or career problems. Or project problems. Or marriage problems. Or any one type of problems.
You&#8217;d think that more than two decades after Fred Brooks told us that, at least in software, we would know that there is no silver bullet. The reason is simple:
Life is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Managers Should Not Write Technical Job Postings</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/08/why-managers-should-not-write-technical-job-postings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/08/why-managers-should-not-write-technical-job-postings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:44:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Computers/IT]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1200</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine encouraged me to tell this story which I watched unfold first hand while a software development manager for a mid-sized consulting firm. One of my best developers &#8212; a software architect, really &#8212; started laughing in the middle of the day. We all needed something to release the strain of our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Imaginist, Systemicist, and Getting Myself Wrong</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/03/imaingist-systemicist-and-getting-myself-wrong/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/02/03/imaingist-systemicist-and-getting-myself-wrong/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-making]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/?p=1197</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In late November, while talking to my old partner about how the Seven Decision Making Approaches (or &#8220;languages of achievement&#8221;) are relevant to his current work problems, I suddenly realised something startling. For several years, I have been selling myself as either Imaginist or Empiricist, but delivering Systemicist results. The disconnect has been startling. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>7 Decision Making Approaches: IMAGINIST / INTUITIONIST</title>
		<link>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/01/20/7-decision-making-approaches-imaginist-intuitionist/</link>
		<comments>http://www.manasclerk.com/blog/2010/01/20/7-decision-making-approaches-imaginist-intuitionist/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jan 2010 04:41:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Forrest Christian</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Theory]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Warren Kinston]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[deciding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[imaginist]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jimmy Algie]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[levels of work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[[I continue my notes on Kinston &#038; Algie's decision systems.]
As we continue with our exploration of the seven approaches to decision making that were originally developed by Jimmy Algie, reformulated by he and Warren Kinston, then extended by Warren [refs follow below], keep in mind that they can also be seen in two other ways.
Languages [...]]]></description>
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