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		<title>Five Targets of Competitive Attack On Your Business</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/29/five-targets-of-competitive-attack-on-your-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Mar 2009 07:37:51 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Formula 9 - Secure Safety]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When your business finds success, it will be attacked. The reality is, success invites competition. In classical strategy there are five targets commonly attacked. This article explains the five targets and provides suggestions on how to defend against them.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=29&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A leader or strategist that can&#8217;t get work is incompetent.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:36:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Hunting]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Layoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you are a strategist, planner, and leader and are experiencing job layoffs or slow business it&#8217;s only because you&#8217;re incompetent. How&#8217;s that for a slap in the face? I have been reading blogs, emails, forums, and websites about project managers, strategy experts, and leadership experts that are having difficulties in the current economic climate. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=26&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to Win in Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 02:09:21 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[9 Key Components]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In classical strategy, we say that your goal is to constantly advance your position. It is unnecessary and usually impossible to make large gains all at once. The key is to make small, unstoppable improvements every day. We don&#8217;t have to &#8220;beat&#8221; our competitors, we simply have to position ourselves to win. This begs the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=21&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy in everyday life: My day with CSI</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/strategy-in-everyday-life-my-day-with-csi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 23:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CSI Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listening]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[To educate and entertain my two young sons, I recently took them to our local science museum for an exhibit based on the popular television series, CSI. This exhibit was unlike others we have visited. When you enter, you are given an evidence card and watch a brief video from the star of the show. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=18&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Manufacturing Luck</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/manufacturing-luck/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:02:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Luck]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was a typical day for school geek. While walking to his next class, he spotted the school bully just ahead. If he didn&#8217;t think fast, he was certain to end up inside another locker or some other painful and embarrassing situation. He quickly scanned the hallway and saw his math teacher round the corner [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=15&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leverage the mistakes of competitors to win.</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/19/leverage-the-mistakes-of-competitors-to-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Business Mistakes]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here’s another twist about competition; You don&#8217;t have to beat the competition to win &#8211; You just have to leverage their mistakes to be successful. Sooner or later, everyone screws up. As a competitor, your job is to see those mistakes and take advantage of them. In fact, we will define opportunity as your competitors’ [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=13&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to &#8220;beat&#8221; your competitors to win.</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/18/you-dont-have-to-beat-your-competitors-to-win/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 11:01:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When people think about using strategy to improve their business, the first thing that comes to mind for many is a bag of tricks that allow them to beat their competitors. This is possibly the biggest misconception about strategy. It&#8217;s not about &#8220;beating&#8221; anybody. It&#8217;s about winning without fighting. Strategy is really about leverage. You [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=11&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy Books and Courses are a Waste of Time and Money</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/17/strategy-books-and-courses-are-a-waste-of-time-and-money/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 10:55:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Strategy Rant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad advice]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is my proposition. Classes and books on strategy, for the most part, are a complete waste of money and time. It is the rare professor that can teach you strategy. They understand it like an economist understands business. Economists can&#8217;t predict much. They look at what happened and explain it. These nitwit professors of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=8&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You don&#8217;t have to be perfect &#8211; just better than the competition.</title>
		<link>http://madstrategist.wordpress.com/2009/03/16/you-dont-have-to-be-perfect-just-better-than-the-competition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2009 11:08:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>allanelder</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[9 Key Components]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many times have you heard the joke about two men on mountain walk that stumble across a bear. One many stops and puts on his tennis shoes. The other man remarks &#8220;Why bother, you can&#8217;t fun faster than a bear!&#8221; To which the first man replies, &#8220;I don&#8217;t have to be faster than the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=madstrategist.wordpress.com&amp;blog=6976360&amp;post=5&amp;subd=madstrategist&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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