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		<title>Book Review: Leadership and Self-deception</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I normally hate business books written in a fictional fable storytelling style. But for some reason I managed to read and enjoy this one &#8211; with one or two minor annoyances which we can cover later. The book suggests that sometimes we cause our own problems, or at least make problem situations worse through our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Book Review : Driving Down Cost by Andrew Wileman</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A highly relevant book to read in these cost cutting times. Andrew Wileman evidently having seen it and done it &#8211; and now presenting useful advice on the art of cost cutting. Before started reading I noted down what I expected to see advice about: becoming more effective, getting rid of underperforming staff now and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/12/13/book-review-driving-down-cost-by-andrew-wileman/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The New Economics by W. Edwards Deming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This great little book acts as an introduction and summary to Deming&#8217;s ideas: his &#8216;system of profound knowledge&#8217; the purpose of management removal of numeric targets and incentives the Shewhart Cycle for learning and improvement Variation the Red Bead Game control charts A highly recommended read because &#8230;. ( amazon.co.uk &#124; amazon.com ) Deming starts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/11/15/book-review-the-new-economics-by-w-edwards-deming/</link>
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		<title>The best book on writing a CV: Pitch Yourself by Bill and Michael Faust (Book Review)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I promise, I shall make this my last post on CVs and recruitment for a while. (see notes, and more notes) But I just wanted to mention the only useful book I read about CVs when researching the CV book market. When I read this book I gave up on writing a CV book because [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/11/12/the-best-book-on-writing-a-cv-pitch-yourself-by-bill-and-michael-faust-book-review/</link>
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		<title>More notes on writing a CV that a hiring manager wants to read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So the last post described what I wanted. Now some tips about how I read a CV. So make sure you write your CV to support my reading of it. Contrary to some advice &#8211; I don&#8217;t really mind how many pages the CV has. I care about the relevancy of the information and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/11/08/more-notes-on-writing-a-cv-that-a-hiring-manager-wants-to-read/</link>
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		<title>How to write a CV that a hiring manager wants to read</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post started as notes for a book. &#8220;What would be better?&#8221; I thought &#8220;In this time of recession, than to prey on peoples fears of losing their job and write a book on how to write a CV.&#8221; And then I did the research and read through about 15 books on how to write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/11/04/how-to-write-a-cv-that-a-hiring-manager-wants-to-read/</link>
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		<title>How to Track Your Time To Manage Better</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have grown more aware of the passage of time over the years. Not just in the sense of growing older, but as a manager my time gets split between multiple foci. As a team member I typically had one or two tasks or priorities. At the end of the day I generally knew what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/10/19/how-to-track-your-time-to-manage-better/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Life&#8217;s a Pitch by Stephen Bayley &amp; Roger Mavity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Subtitled &#8220;How to Sell yourself and your brilliant ideas&#8221; this dual-authored book has two parts. One for each author. And yes this has made it schizophrenic. The first half by Roger Mavity tells the hard won lessons from a marketeer. The second half by Stephen Bayley reads like a standard book researched management text. I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/10/07/book-review-lifes-a-pitch-by-stephen-bayley-roger-mavity/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Everything I need to know about being a manager I learned from my kids by Ian Durston</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So, from the title, do you expect a kind of folksy tale of happy families and happy teams? Good, because that describes the book well. The books starts very un-managerially with the birth details of the children and then ties &#8216;becoming a parent&#8217; in to &#8216;becoming a manager&#8217;. I actually think I would enjoy working [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/09/14/book-review-everything-i-need-to-know-about-being-a-manager-i-learned-from-my-kids-by-ian-durston/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: Detox Your Desk by Theo Theobald and Gary Cooper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yet another time management book. This one starts well and by page xi in the introduction I have warmed to the notion of a &#8220;zero tolerance workspace&#8221;. But then we hit an &#8220;analysis&#8221; phase and we learn&#8230;nothing for a while. I suppose this section tries to build up the belief set that we need to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.readysteadymanage.com/index.php/2008/09/09/book-review-detox-your-desk-by-theo-theobald-and-gary-cooper/</link>
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