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	<description>Shifting the Balance in Your Favor</description>
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		<title>Stating opinions instead of facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is &#8220;there are no plans for this project&#8221; a fact or an opinion? Let me give you the background.  A manager was expecting plans for a project from one of her employees.  She hadn’t received them on the agreed upon date.  So she said to her employee: There are no plans for this project Fact [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrumpointpartners.com/stating-opinions-instead-of-facts/</link>
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		<title>Look what happens when you disguise subjectivity with objectivity!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What management awareness can we learn from the Sharon Smiley case? In case you didn’t read about it, in 2010 Sharon Smiley was fired from her job as a receptionist because she refused to not work during her lunch break. Yes, you read that correctly! Her former employer, Equity Lifestyle Properties Inc., said it was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrumpointpartners.com/look-what-happens-when-you-disguise-subjectivity-with-objectivity/</link>
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		<title>Everything was great until I didn’t get an outstanding appraisal!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How specific are the reasons your employees are doing great or need improvement? I was coaching a manager who was having issues with their manager.  This is not a unique situation.  Managing up has just as many challenges as managing your own employees. This was the third year my client was with their manager.  This [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.fulcrumpointpartners.com/everything-was-great-until-i-didn%e2%80%99t-get-an-outstanding-appraisal/</link>
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		<title>Management, Woody Allen style!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How much does a manager need to manage? On a recent documentary about Woody Allen, it was mentioned how many of his actors get nominated for awards and go on to win awards, yet he is the least directive director you can imagine. Mira Sorvino, who won an academy award for best supporting actress for [...]]]></description>
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