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		<title>Does TalentPuzzle stop employers from forming relationships with agencies?</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2010/11/02/does-talentpuzzle-stop-employers-from-forming-relationships-with-agencies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 12:25:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's a question I get asked a lot, so I thought I should try and answer it.  The difficulty is that TalentPuzzle* is a tool and like many tools can be used in a lot of different ways. There are definitely employers that post jobs onto TalentPuzzle that engage agencies through the site, do not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why should you be open about your start-up business model?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Jan 2010 11:46:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I've noticed an odd rule: when I met entrepreneurs who will not tell me anything about their business idea, I generally do not see that business becoming successful. On the other hand, many successful businesses have been very open about their strategies and plans.
I can't remember the number of times I've met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 minute guide to managing change</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/?p=166</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If you are running a fast growing company, you will be doing lots of new things and having to change from the old way of doing things to the new way.  This is a major headache.  There’s a huge amount of inertia that means people tend to do things in the old way [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 minute guide to running effective meetings</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:25:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don’t know how much time ineffective meetings lose annually, but I bet it’s a huge amount (and people complain about Twitter!).  There are few things more irritating than having to constantly go to meetings where you are often not needed, decisions are rarely reached, and if they are reached not acted on.
Amazingly running [...]]]></description>
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		<title>1 minute guide to boosting initiative and innovation in your team</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/25/1-minute-guide-to-boosting-initiative-and-innovation-in-your-team/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Start up]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/?p=157</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone wants to have a team working for them that they can trust to get on and do the job, be full of new ideas, and not come to them every five minutes asking for help or approval.  Some people naturally develop their teams this way, most of us have to work at it.
Some [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective communication for improving team performance</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/?p=152</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I attended an excellent course recently run by Cambridge Leadership.  The key thing the course teaches you is that most people do not communicate in a way that is likely to get results when they are trying to correct underperformance.  Managers either dress the criticism up with some praise e.g. “you’ve always done [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why do recruitment agencies charge so much?</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/21/why-do-recruitment-agencies-charge-so-much/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 10:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recruitment agencies are a solution to a market inefficiency.  To see clearly the problem they solve, let’s look at a simple example.  A small firm wants to hire a financial controller, they only need to hire someone in the finance department every few years, but in order to fill that job with a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 mistakes commonly made by start-ups</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/16/5-mistakes-commonly-made-by-start-ups/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 12:04:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[1.	Recruiting the wrong people.  It is amazing how easy it is to do this, and equally amazing how huge the impact on your company is.  You know you need to grow, and you know you need people to do it, just make sure you get the right people.  How?  Well, it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good leaders &#8211; mentally agile optimists</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/07/good-leaders-mentally-agile-optimists/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:29:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recent studies have shown that people who are successful are likely to be optimists.  Optimists are found to benefit from being happier, living longer,  and being more successful.  It also just happens that they are wrong more.
I think people can understand this intuitively, if you don't believe you can make a success of your business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why start-ups fail &#8211; lies, lies, lies</title>
		<link>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/03/why-start-ups-fail-lies-lies-lies/</link>
		<comments>http://www.benfletcheradvisory.com/index.php/2009/11/03/why-start-ups-fail-lies-lies-lies/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Start up]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Why do start ups fail?  Lots of reasons obviously, poor concept, poor delivery, and poor management being fairly obvious candidates.  I've been trying to boil it all down to one reason or theme, and I think it has to be lies.  Why lies?
Well, first of all, I'm not saying that start-ups are lying to their [...]]]></description>
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