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<title>Hans Bool - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Changes often comes in stages. Before 2004 I worked as a business consultant, (project) manager and business architect for large companies. Since then I developed a new online consulting formula. And recently I have an additional focus in writing articles and books.]]></description>
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<title>Wait For Me in Heaven (Maruja Torres)</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 15:30:01 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you read a book because you think; "he this author I've heard of" and you find a book of her and decide to read it.    In my case the title of the book "Wait for me in heaven" (original title in Spain: Esperadme en el cielo) reminded me of another book I'm also reading from Christopher Moore - A Dirty job. It's not the title but also about Death.]]></description>
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<title>Investment Management Equals Change Management?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 10:13:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Simple formulas are often wrong or do not grasp the whole issue. Of course, but sometimes a simple formula shows a very important relation.]]></description>
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<title>Some Basics About Greenhouse Business Architecture</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 13:19:37 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Greenhouses are one of the perfect examples of business architecture where new business development is solved by the architecture of a new sort of organization; only by means of the greenhouses - which were used before for other purposes in a more private atmosphere - the products (fruit and vegetables) could be grown irrespectively of the natural climate. Basically the new business development is more of the same but by extending the production possibilities.]]></description>
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<title>How Valuable is (Corporate) Safety?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 12:03:40 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These are not real corporate values, but can be understood as "protected values." There is often no question about safety and security although the level of provided (corporate) safety is open to discussion.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Profitability</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 11:51:47 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not long ago the CEO of Citi announced by the famous e-mail that the group was profitable again. It was one of the factors in the turning-point in the falling financial market.]]></description>
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<title>Cultural References in Fiesta</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 15:04:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fiesta, or the Sun also rises, is the first novel of Hemingway. Before reading it I read his last novel: the old man and the sea. Both have something in common...]]></description>
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<title>Legacy From Vincent Van Gogh (Letters to Theo)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2259547</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 09:21:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[How many possibilities do we have to learn from the artist himself about his life?    Amsterdam, 18th of August 1877. Later I had breakfast with a slice of dry bread and a glass of beer; that is a means that Dickens recommends to those who are near suicide.]]></description>
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<title>A Family Business - Or Familiar With the Business?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2277930</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 09:17:29 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A family business is often a strong business with a strong culture. Everybody seems to know what "the family" wants for the business and what this means for the organization.]]></description>
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<title>The Transformation of Oslo</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 13:33:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Architecture is about building. In the design process previous to new buildings there are many criteria to evaluate such a new building. One of them is the connection of the new with the existing, another criteria is how the new building is able to make a transformation of the old and existing architecture.]]></description>
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<title>Another Corporate Reminder - Trust</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:38:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trust, not only companies are based on them, but every other transaction in the world is.  Would you trust the following:  We build trust by acting ethically, transparently and consistently.  Trust goes hand-in-hand with credibility.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - People Matter</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:37:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This value is often combined with the clause: Quality.    For example, we know that our people are the most valuable asset and make the difference.]]></description>
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<title>Will the E-Book Change the Novel?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 16:20:12 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the mayor factors in change of culture comes from changes and developments in technology. For instance, the mobile phone changed our live... The e-book changes the way we read. But will it change the novel too and how?]]></description>
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<title>Formula-One and the Bonus-Culture in Business</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 14:20:53 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sport is a suitable metaphor for business. Formula-1 for instance offers the reasonable fit in comparing investment banking with sport. ING started to sponsor the Renault team some years before the top of the investment market.]]></description>
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<title>What Does the Language Distribution on Wikipedia Reveal About Culture?</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:58:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What does the language distribution on Wikipedia tell about culture? That the highest entries are in English seems logical. But how about the difference in number between Spanish Wikipedia entries and the Dutch ones?]]></description>
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<title>Some Basics About Organizational Culture</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 09:08:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Corporate values belong officially to the domain of culture. Managing culture is an abstract topic and often people (managers) are skeptic about it. But this is due to the fact that advisors and consultants do not agree on the definition of culture or make it too difficult to understand... But it isn't all that complex.]]></description>
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<title>Organizational Culture - Business (First) And Organization (Next)</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 24 Apr 2009 08:53:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As Culture is defined as what people do and how they do it, how does this work in the organization? How to manage culture?]]></description>
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<title>Tender is the Night - Cultural and Other References</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:56:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Tender is the Night," from the same author F. Scott Fitzgerald, however is more contemporary and serving more of a niche market by offering a story of an American family in Southern France.]]></description>
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<title>While Europe Slept - Introduction</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 10:30:11 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[I must have been one of them, because I didn't notice this book, which was published in 2006. The Spanish translation is from 2007, which is what I read (From Isabel Gonzalez- Gallarza).]]></description>
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<title>Scoop by Evelyn Waugh</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:46:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A scoop is a term that is part of the journalism slang: "a news story, particularly connotating a new or developing story with aspects of importance and excitement, normally an exclusive for the journalist involved (wikipedia). The Spanish word for Scoop is "primicia."]]></description>
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<title>Change in the Great Gatsby</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:46:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As important literature is being filmed these days, one could wonder why The great Gatsby isn't part of this trend. Probably because the book was adapted to television in 2000, at an appropriate moment during the divide of the old and the new economy; matching very well the East Egg West Egg divide in the book.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Reminder - A Positive Work Environment</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:45:05 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently a marketing campaign in St Petersburg in Russia promoted the "smile." Due to the crisis people felt more insecure and the campaign was focused on the attitude and atmosphere. An incentive to improve the climate. And a way for people to bond where they all share the same problems. A smile can make a difference.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Speed, Agility &amp; Acceleration</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2219913</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:44:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[All fine but these are not corporate values. Values are personal or can be translated to individual employees. What do you communicate to an employee you are going to hire: "no matter what you do, but do it fast!" That is a secure way to fail.]]></description>
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<title>Knowledge is Valuable, Just That</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2142816</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 08:24:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What kind of company or organization would value know-how most? It is similar to "expertise," but expertise is associated to the expert, someone who knows very much about a certain - specific - topic.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Business Ethics Versus Staff Morale</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2170510</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 03 Apr 2009 09:52:20 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is a difference between morale and ethics and the best way to show this, is to add: "staff" and "business". Business ethics is in general more specific and focused on good-practices in business; like that of a company's practices in market behavior, in sales practices (intimidating clients) or accounting practices, etc...]]></description>
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<title>Are Singles Recession-Proof?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2151545</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:33:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Trend-watchers claim new trends every time, and the trend of the happy-single got noticed some time ago. But how fundamental are some of these trends?]]></description>
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<title>How Productive is the Gambler?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2137680</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 14:55:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In these days where the financial corporations receive full blamed for causing the financial crisis, it may be an idea to look at the gambler. Did the gambler have a role in all this?]]></description>
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<title>What is the Spanish Banesto (Recovery) Model in Finance?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2147374</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:13:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The CEO of the Spanish bank BBVA proposed to use a best-practice to save banks. This way work in 1993 for Banesto.]]></description>
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<title>Requiem For a Spanish Peasant</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2132740</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:09:59 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ramon Sender was born in Huesca in the North of Spain in 1902. He was a journalist and writer. The novel was first published in Mexico under the title "Mos?n Millan" in 1953 and got its current name -- Requiem for a Spanish Peasant -- since 1960.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Evidence Based</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:36:04 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This value is predominantly used in healthcare environments where a physician or medical specialist uses a practice that is based on evidence. This means that the specialist doesn't adapt new measures, techniques or methods until there is prove that it works.]]></description>
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<title>From Everyman to Elegy - The Translation of a Novel</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2124675</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 09:27:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyman is a novel of Philip Roth. The title refers to a medieval play under the same name.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Open Communication</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2120118</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:13:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is a value that is focused on the organizational process and a reason to select this value into the corporate values statement is that the organizational process is more important that the result. This may apply for those companies where the result is not a clear cut product but rather a somehow intangible, not transparent service. Think of governmental organizations, universities, etc.]]></description>
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<title>Client Relationship Management With Shareholders</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2120102</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:12:34 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[CRM has been the buzzword for years after the now already common standard of ERP. Everyone knows what the best-practices of enterprise resource management are. But how about CRM and CRM for shareholders?]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Stakeholders' Interest</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2111157</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:16:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A "normal" company operates in a business environment of suppliers of which it receives valuable resources and customers to whom it sells added value in form of products and services. Modern business however has become more and more complex and the concept of "community" entered the business scene; an organization is more than a static entity that offers products and services to consumers.]]></description>
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<title>Managing Diversity</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2085821</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 15:24:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[When (Live) searching the internet for "diversity and corporate values" the first page shows six technology (related) companies: IBM, Abbacus Technology, Dell, Google, HP and AT&T. Another company on the first page is the BBC; they state in their mission: to be the most creative company in the world.]]></description>
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<title>The Power and the Glory (Graham Greene)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2085820</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 14:06:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[This is an interesting novel about the role of faith and religion in life that is represented by two main heroes in the story. The priest and the lieutenant, or the hunted and the hunter, because the lieutenant is hunting the priest as the catholic faith and practice is forbidden at the time in Mexico. A fact the novel has been based on.]]></description>
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<title>Healthcare ASP Part 2 - The IBA Healthgroup</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2085874</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:25:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the fears of hospital management is that they partner a Application Service Provider and that this partner becomes insolvent. The IBA Healthgroup recently bought a ASP which made them a strong global player. The other side of this fear is that a good software package will always be bought by someone, as in the (same) case of iSoft. ]]></description>
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<title>Healthcare ASP Part 3 - An ASP Example - Isoft</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 08:10:19 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The strategy of Isoft is to offer Application Services (ASP) for Health Care organizations. Lorenzo is their product name, an application dedicated to the health care sector and which uses a service oriented architecture. This means that each hospital or health care provider can tailor and tap the services just according to its needs.]]></description>
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<title>Comparison of an Investment Fund Management Approach</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2085998</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:46:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the Netherlands there are two popular investment funds. There is also a site where the characteristics of funds can be compared. I've tried it for those two funds and came up with a peculiar fact, when looking at the last (5 years') performance of both funds:]]></description>
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<title>Chesil Beach - Ian McEwan</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2085972</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 10:38:36 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sometimes you are overwhelmed by comments on a subject or in this case a book. In Spain this book has often received positive attention and critics and I was curious reading it. All this attention, however inflating the expectations, didn't lead to a disappointment after reading the novel. On the contrary.]]></description>
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<title>Health Care &amp; ASP Part 1 - Introduction</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2084937</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 09:47:21 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Hospitals are one of the organizations that have the highest information density. This means that the business that is organized in a hospital is very independent on information.]]></description>
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<title>Character Building - The Ramadan Experience</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2080559</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:29:26 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some example get labeled: don't try this at home. In this case of "Ramadan" I have to say: I didn't try this myself. But I'm wondering how the culture of Ramadan would influence one's character.]]></description>
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<title>Life is Elsewhere (Kundera)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2080534</link>
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<pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:25:57 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Czech President Vaclav Klaus who is currently presiding the European Union, said the EU Is Becoming a Soviet Union Look-Alike... I found it a good moment to dig into the Czech's past and have a look at their literature. For instance - Life is Elsewhere, from Milan Kundera.]]></description>
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<title>Signs of Our Time - Public Infrastructure Gets Some Attention</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2071137</link>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:33:10 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not only President Obama announced vast investments in public infrastructure and healthcare, school, etc also in China the government prepared a recovery plan investing in infrastructure. Is infrastructure the only thing they can do, or is there more to it? There is in fact. It is not a coincidence.]]></description>
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<title>How Business Intelligent Are the Search Engines?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2066875</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 09:05:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Search Engines -- we all know -- are relatively new companies which have no comparable benchmark in business or in organizing. The SE business is unique.]]></description>
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<title>Organizing is Like Trading</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2066867</link>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2009 08:30:09 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the organizational caverns of a company we encounter professionals that normally operate in a pure business environment. One of such a professional is the trader.]]></description>
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<title>Basque Elections - The Morning After</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2064156</link>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 16:42:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The Basque Country in Northern Spain is a place where social life changes.     Slowly.    What happens in this Basque Country influences Spain and visa versa.]]></description>
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<title>Differences in the European Stock and Bond Market</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:29:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are some interesting developments in the European marketplace as individual member states have their own problems to solve. Individual member states get rated for their governmental bond market, according to the government budget deficit and outstanding debt. For instance the Netherlands has a higher debt rating than Spain as the market reckons that Spain may default sooner than The Netherlands.]]></description>
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<title>Where Are You Going Navigator?</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:06:57 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[These days it is hard to figure out how companies are really doing. Last year's profits (if any) and current 2009 outlook (negative) gives something to go by. But it isn't much. So an interview with the CEO may help. And indeed, as we are looking for confidence, some extra information can make the difference.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Cardinal Health</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 11:11:20 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Cardinal Health is now an "$87 billion" global healthcare products and services company dedicated to making healthcare "safer and more productive."   But it all started in 1971 - with Cardinal Foods -- when founder Robert Walter opened a small distribution center in Ohio. Eight years later the distribution branched into pharmaceuticals when the company purchased a drug distributor and became known as Cardinal Distribution (2).]]></description>
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<title>Employee Job Satisfaction - A Luxury Problem?</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:59:30 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Not long ago I heard about a company who got rid of their Employee Job Satisfaction (EJS) surveys. Boldly stated they found that job satisfaction was a semi-objective figure that didn't quite fit anymore: employees seemed bored to fill in the list, it was not clear what to do with the exceptions (the 20 percent of employees who were less satisfied whereas most other 80% were) and there was no relation to the success of the business. ]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Wide Passion</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:58:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Recently I read about a consultant who was invited by a client hoping to find their passion. At first I found that astonishing, but then I thought, Yes, that's not that odd. We often don't realize where our passion lies after we talk about it with someone. ]]></description>
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<title>Productivity Measurement in a Banking Environment</title>
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<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2058222</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:09:23 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Applying productivity measurement to a banking environment is possible on different levels. On an employee level one should know first what this employee role is in relation to the overall business process and (thus) how this process is organized. The question can be summarized by: what should I do?]]></description>
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<title>Empowerment As a Corporate Value</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2058218</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2058218</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 07:09:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Empowerment is a concept that was invented by consultants. The idea was that once they would leave, the professionals in the organization would be able to apply what they had learned; they were empowered to do the job. In previous situations consultants left and took the knowledge with them.]]></description>
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<title>New in Spain - Doctor Mateo</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2058231</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2058231</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 16:37:22 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[For those who are somehow tired of Dr. House and who happen to live in Spain there is a new soap: Dr. Mateo. It is one of the innovations on television of a unique formula.]]></description>
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<title>Exotic Places in the World - Lazkao</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053977</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:24:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People often travel to places because there is something to see. There is always something to observe, but what is that exactly? A museum, the architecture of a building, nature, a cultural event, a historical monument... Or a place where a celebrity has lived. It is also possible that people visit a landscape where a film was recorded.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - CEC - Leaders in Education</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053957</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2053957</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:22:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Career Education Corporation (CEC) was founded in 1994 and according to their own statement, has become one of the world's leading providers of quality post-secondary educational services. Gary E. McCullough is currently the President and Chief Executive Officer of CEC.]]></description>
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<title>How to Design a Shared Service Center (2)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053891</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2053891</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:18:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Professsionalization leads to a higher overhead costs. In this case the professionalization is achieved as the distributed activities are grouped together and centrally planned, whereas they were performed at the local business level previously.]]></description>
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<title>How to Design a Shared Service Center (1)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053879</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2053879</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:18:01 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Whether a shared service center is suitable and under what circumstances is subject to the situation in which it is to be designed. One motive to setup a SSC is the professionalization of an organization.]]></description>
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<title>Organizational Change by Trusting Customers</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053933</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2053933</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 13:16:28 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Does change come as a necessity or because people want it so badly? Normally it is the former; problems add up and there is no normal way out improving things. To escape "this one," we need a change.]]></description>
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<title>Culture and Different Sorts of Teams</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2054037</link>
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<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:57:35 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are different sorts of teams that require a different kind of management approach.    First of all there is a difference between operational teams and project teams.  A project - think of Ocean's 11 - is a team of professionals that are selected because of their expertise.]]></description>
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<title>What Will the Crisis Do to the Euro?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2054030</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2054030</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:55:06 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A crisis will make people stronger. Of course it is also possible that a crisis will lead to (personal or business) bankruptcy. But will the Euro collapse as some predict?]]></description>
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<title>Some Characteristics of an Engineering Culture</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2054016</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2054016</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:53:34 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Every profession has its jokes. For instance about economists. An example of an engineering joke is this one: what's the difference between a mechanical engineer and civil engineer? One builds bombs the other builds targets.]]></description>
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<title>Levels in Measuring Productivity</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2053909</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2053909</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:52:07 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There are three main levels in which productivity of an organization can be measured.    The most common level is that of the company itself. It is basically the output achieved related to an "amount" of human resources.]]></description>
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<title>Productivity - Whistleblower Versus Fraud Detective</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2054054</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2054054</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:44:55 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[One of the few presents that Harry Markopoulos received was a silver whistle. What if he was perceived as a detective, what present would he have received, an authentic Sherlock Holmes magnifying-glass?]]></description>
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<title>How Do You Write?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2044626</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2044626</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:25:33 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Strange question? Wrong title? Well, there are three or more ways to write and each of them influences the process of writing.]]></description>
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<title>The Actor at Work</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2044841</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2044841</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 16:03:47 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Maybe you have heart this one, when a manager is not performing well that he blames this on the situation; "I'm officially in charge but nothing else is arranged," he refers to a separate room, a budget to hire employees, are in the situation of a project manager, who is responsible but without any authority.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Rhoen Klinikum</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2040503</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2040503</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:48:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[According to their own -- Rhoen Klinikum (RK) -- investors' information, the healthcare market is in crisis- and weatherproof: Medically necessary treatments are not exposed to the economic cycle but to a decisive extent depend on the demographic structure of the population. But it is also common knowledge that sick leave is proportional to economic prosperity; employees are afraid to loose their job during a crisis. Wouldn't this also count to a certain extent for the hospital market?]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Citi Solutions</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2040632</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2040632</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 09:03:25 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[There is hardly any information on this company, internet is nearly blank on the firm, with a single exception: "Has anybody got any experience of a financial services firm called Citi-solutions. They are part of the ubiquitous Citigroup somehow?"]]></description>
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<title>What is Going On - Microsoft Versus TomTom</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2040603</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2040603</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:59:13 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As there is only very little news available on this topic, how is one to interpret this information. This is my first impression.]]></description>
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<title>Arise Sir Tom Jones</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2036247</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2036247</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Feb 2009 13:59:08 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A biography is often a story of change. In this biography the changes of the protagonist and the lives around him go hand in hand.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Fresenius Medical Care</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2031620</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2031620</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 15:45:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Fresenius Medical care is a producer of dialysis equipment and offering services in this field of (chronic) kidney failure. The best known of these kidney supportive functions is hemodialysis which became routine in the 1960s.]]></description>
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<title>Homo Faber (Max Frisch)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2031613</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2031613</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Feb 2009 11:04:42 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The first scene of a novel often marks the setting, the opening is to show what it important and where to concentrate on. The main symbol this novel opens with is that of the airport. One association could be ...]]></description>
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<title>The Journalist at Work</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2012777</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2012777</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 16:24:03 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In the office we often come across the career in a new context, like the arbiter, the police officer, the judge... and even the journalist although you might think it's hard to imagine.]]></description>
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<title>Abel Sanchez (Unamuno)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009042</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2009042</guid>
<pubDate>Tue, 24 Feb 2009 13:16:56 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Abel Sanchez - a story of passion -- has a similar style as Mist, but the relatively story encompasses a whole lifetime and is written without too many details a plain and ordinary story. At first sight.]]></description>
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<title>What Exactly Do You Mean by We Value Teamwork?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2012802</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2012802</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:33:04 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["We value teamwork," who doesn't one might ask? In order to add teamwork to the list of corporate values, one must know what exactly is meant with it. Often with values there is a certain focus.]]></description>
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<title>Changes in the Stock Exchange Market - Dark and Visible Trading</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2012788</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2012788</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:30:48 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[While stock market activity (trading) is slowing down which is felt by companies like the Deutsche Boerse and the NYSE Euronext, new trading platforms silently enter the market scene. Chi-X is a relatively new company that offers stock trading and exchange according to their own information at a lower price, and higher execution times.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profile - MAN</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2012775</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2012775</guid>
<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:28:50 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[MAN is a company with a history of more than 250 years. It started with the construction of an iron mill in 1758 and grow into the engine business after 1897 when Rudolf Diesel built the world's first functioning Diesel engine...]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Grifols</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 23 Feb 2009 13:09:09 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Grifols is a producer of biotechnological products and services for the healthcare sector.  The website starts with a strong statement: "What matters most: People." More difficult it is to evaluate the site and the annual report on this statement.]]></description>
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<title>Portrait of a Librarian</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009079</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2009079</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:53:10 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The function of a library is to offer information. The Collection of books and other informational material fulfill a memory function in live. We print and publish and collect to keep in touch with the past.]]></description>
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<title>Nature Calls</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2008818</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2008818</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:54:17 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The news reads something like; "Darwin 200 years alive." And the controversy is about who created men: God or some random process of natural selection that created apes first and evolved into men as we know ourselves?]]></description>
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<title>Productivity Profile of a Spy</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009055</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2009055</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:27:40 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Intelligence is valued in many situations and also in the business environment. Business Intelligence can lead to competitive advantage. But in the game of competition there is always deceit; in sport it is done through the use of drugs and business it is about spying: what if your intelligence is not enough? Try to get some from the competition.]]></description>
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<title>Do You Believe - For Example, In Prophecies?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2009041</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2009041</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:24:52 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In an interview (Humo), Patrick Geryl responds to the question what he will do when the 2012 prophecy will not happen, "will you commit suicide?" "Those who do not act now are suicidal!" Patrick Geryl is one of the followers of the 2012 prophecy predicting that the earth will be destroyed by a catastrophe and only a few will survive.]]></description>
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<title>Company Profiles - Veolia</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2008678</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2008678</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 14:06:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Veolia is a company founded at the dawn of the industrial era and the start of urban development and focused on water, waste, energy management and transport. As urban development changes continuously, the question for the future is how 8 billion of people on the planet and "half of them in urban environments" will impact: water, waste energy and transport. Looking forward requires first of all looking back.]]></description>
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<title>Characteristics of a Good Reader</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2008844</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2008844</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 13:39:02 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[It appears that Osama Bin Laden writes poems. I learned this from a book title from Charlotte Mutsaers which refers to one of his poems. The world is full of surprises.]]></description>
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<title>The Author (Pamuk) And His Work (The White Castle)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1982384</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1982384</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:09:44 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The question: "is literature art?," is one that seems as open and unresolved as the definition of literature itself. But if literature isn't art, what is it then? The result of a craft similar like the work of a carpenter? Or that of the architect?]]></description>
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<title>Flying to the South</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/2008715</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/2008715</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:45:32 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Flying to the South is a provisionary title I gave to the novel of Ian Gibson, an Irish Hispanist. The official and literal title would be "the wind of the south or Southern Wind (Viento del Sur).]]></description>
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<title>The New Architecture of Microsoft</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999795</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999795</guid>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:50:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Microsoft is going to introduce shops, similar to those of Apple. Nobody really knows or understands how this new store-concept is going to be implemented and how it will evolve in the near future, but the first step is taken and speculations follow. This is one of them:]]></description>
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<title>Who Was Velazquez?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999796</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999796</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 15:01:58 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What it this, another trial pursuit, the latest hype or candid camera? When reading about Francis Bacon -- and about the influence of his life on his paintings -- whose work is currently exhibited in the Prado museum in Madrid, I dwelled upon another painter: Velazquez. In the same article, Felix de Azua unveils (el Pais 16th of February) the fact that Velazquez as we know from Las Meninas, is not the Velazquez we think he was.]]></description>
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<title>Organizational Awareness</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999419</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999419</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:58:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The "new" manager that has not yet chalked his management slate and starts freshly with its new assignment becomes aware of (the) organization. This change starts with a change in his role where he is now cataloged as a manager after having build-up experience in a specific field of expertise.  In the first month the new manager realizes that his (business) expertise is no longer the driving force and he has to build confidence in a new area.]]></description>
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<title>Business Awareness</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999411</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999411</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:52:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Management is not difficult on itself but it becomes hard as often organizational issues take the lead. If you think about it why management was or is needed you will come to the role of the professional who normally knows what to do. So why do you need management?]]></description>
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<title>Management - Organizational Awareness Versus Business Awareness</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999464</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999464</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:39:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The manager has to balance his abilities between the business and the organization. This is exactly what makes one a manager; he must bridge the gap between business and organization... Think about the tennis player. His "business" is to win a match, a tennis game. But this is not the only thing.]]></description>
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<title>The Author (Schlink) And His Work (The Reader)</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999449</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999449</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:36:00 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[In an interview I read about Jack Nicholson commenting that he once visited a museum and watched a Van Gogh painting. As he was observing the work, he noticed that people were looking at him... That is indeed a paradox of our times; a valuable painting is not as valuable as meeting a famous film star live... Of course, the painting will stay there on the wall.]]></description>
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<title>Corporate Values - Conviviality</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1999434</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1999434</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:34:15 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Corporate values have a purpose and therefore each value has a certain focus to serve that purpose. Some values are focused on... Conviviality ...  It has not a specific goal as many other values have, but it indirectly serves the organization.
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<title>The Day Before Signing the Contract</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:11:36 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The new-born manager looks back on his past (experience) before he addresses this new step in his career. His professional career was in this type of business he knows very well, but now he has been asked to become a manager of the team. It's a different kind of responsibility. ]]></description>
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<title>Fiat's Brand History</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:08:18 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The history of a company's logo not only reflects the changes of the company, but most of all that of time. Particular in Fiat's history is the change of color.]]></description>
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<title>A Symbolic Move in Argentina</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1987080</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1987080</guid>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:30:05 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Why did you take so long, is a question often asked? Why or what was the reason that change took so long? Argentina as an example, but the parallel in business is near.]]></description>
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<title>Guidelines and Hidelines</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1982347</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1982347</guid>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:49:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Guidelines are sort of indications of where to go. They offer a direction; left or right, straight (continuing current strategy) or they serve to indicate a deviation, etc.]]></description>
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<title>Part-Time Contracts in Spain</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 13 Feb 2009 10:37:54 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Part-time contracts are still not very common in Spain and as an exercise on change I think that this is directly related to another topic of inequality between men and women in the workplace.   The work of men and women is not equally valued which is often the case, but more persistent in Spain. And this is of influence on the structure of the labor contract.]]></description>
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<title>About Spain - New Man New - Business?</title>
<link>http://EzineArticles.com/1974225</link>
<guid>http://EzineArticles.com/1974225</guid>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 14:05:51 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some changes are merely look-a-likes. Is that the case with post-machismo in Spain? It could be one of the conclusions of "The New Man New"]]></description>
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<title>Productivity Profile of a Guide</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:26:45 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[A guide shows you the way. This can be for existing or un-chartered territory.]]></description>
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