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		<title>Why Did Hurd REALLY get fired by Hewlett-Packard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you see the outcome-the loss of shareholder value, the lack of planning in a successor, and the reasons given for the firing,-the sexual harassment complaint, the $20k in improper expense charges-it doesn’t add up.
So, now, we have shareholder lawsuits, continued scrutiny, and widespread doubts about the ability of the Board of Directors to make [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=116</link>
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		<title>“Eyes turn to the danger of deflation”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the LA Times headline of July 26, 2010-what does it mean to us, really?
Are prices going down, or up? For many small to mid-size manufacturers, material prices are going up and they are on allocation-they can’t get enough materials to produce what their customers are ordering. That sounds like a classic case for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=112</link>
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		<title>Jellies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Sunday I toured an exhibit at the National Aquarium in Baltimore about “Jellies”-jelly fish. They do an amazing job in multi-media presentations. Screens with comments about the tanks underneath, beautiful displays, mood lighting and of course, the star of the show the jelly fish. Jelly fish are amazing looking creatures-oranges and whites and reds-amorphous [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=106</link>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s your peer group?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When we were kids, we had peer groups of all sorts. We had classmates, we had team mates, we had recital groups, or dance classes or religion classes. Everywhere we went we were lumped into some subgrouping.
Sometimes they were peers, sometimes they were just our age. For adults, there are very few regular standards in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=101</link>
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		<title>When you offer a business opportunity to a man…. Is that different from offering the same opportunity to a woman?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A young woman I know told me quite excitedly about a new project that was posted at her company. The project manager was being hired from the outside and a team was to be created in the next 6 weeks to implement the project. We talked about what the jobs might be on the new [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=97</link>
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		<title>Is it about you?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent a long time talking with a CEO this week about him. We talked about who he was, what was important to him, how he showed up in personality profiles. We didn't spend much time talking about how that worked with his people or with customers.
We do that with our products or our services, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=94</link>
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		<title>Personal Mastery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How well do you know yourself? Can you predict or understand the behavior of other Members of your team?
I was talking  with a CEO who is working with a new assessment tool for leadership style. If you have done personality assessments before,  you may have discovered characteristics about yourself that  may be a challenge to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=88</link>
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		<title>What Makes You Different?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2010 will not be a lot different from 2009, economically speaking. We are still in a recession, people are still being laid off. Companies are doing a little bit better, but they are not rushing to hire. If we keep doing what we were doing in 2009, we will continue to get the same results.
But, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=85</link>
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		<title>It is complicated</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Doesn’t it seem that we spend way too much time doing things that we don’t like to do and not nearly enough time on what we enjoy?
Or, we work really hard, but it doesn’t get us the results we seek?
There are so many ways to do things, yet we do them in the same way [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=78</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s in a Strategy?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In today’s Wall Street Journal Nov. 30, 2009, there is a front page article on Oracle CEO Larry Ellison’s decision to vertically integrate through its purchase of Sun Microsystems which makes hardware, something Oracle never did before. In fact, Oracle’s strategy for the first time in its 32 year history is to create a conglomerate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://norapaller.com/?p=66</link>
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