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		<title>My father</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:27:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My lovely father, Leonard Francis, died yesterday from heart failure. He was 87. He was a rare and fine person, a man who knew the secret of happiness and brought joy to all around him. I&#8217;m going to miss him terribly. *****<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4976&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:33:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My dad is very ill at the moment. I&#8217;m in Sydney helping out with the hospital visiting and looking after mum. Hope to be back blogging shortly with my massive newfound awe for nurses.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4972&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fairytales for the 21st century: Quotes from June</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 01:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In June, I read two fairytales for the men and women of the early 21st century: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and The Girl Who Played with Fire, the first two instalments of Stieg Larsson&#8217;s Millennium trilogy. Larsson, following only a marginally more sophisticated &#8220;write-by-numbers&#8221; syllabus than the one Dan Brown used, gives us [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4942&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The prettiness and uselessness of insights</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/10/the-prettiness-and-uselessness-of-insights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 06:36:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For the last few months I’ve been struggling with an issue, and one of the things that distresses me most, apart from the struggle itself, is that it’s the same old issue I’ve had for decades. I know this issue. I know every stone on the path to where it lives, all the byways and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4914&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the money, or Org Chart Bingo #2</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/04/follow-the-money-or-org-chart-bingo%c2%a02/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 11:57:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Org Chart Bingo time again.  Today&#8217;s org chart is from Telstra, one of Australia&#8217;s largest publicly-listed companies providing telephone and internet services to millions.  This time, we have details on both the Executive team and the Board of Directors. Following are a few quick facts about the company (from the Annual Report for financial [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4890&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tattoo chic(ks)</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/04/tattoo%c2%a0chicks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Jul 2010 01:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scott over at The Sartorialist is in his pomp at the moment.  It&#8217;s Paris, it&#8217;s Milan and it&#8217;s summer!  Check out the two photos of the women with tattoos.  One all cool and white in her suit and black straps (June 28); the other, a direct descendant of every screen siren to have thrown a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4875&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Integrity vs Special Pleading (Part II)</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/03/integrity-vs-special-pleading-part-ii/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Jul 2010 11:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quick recap.  In the paper I discussed the other day, integrity is defined as: honouring one’s word, or, more precisely, one’s word, period. There are three other aspects of integrity I want to discuss today.  They are three beauties: one’s word includes one’s word to one’s self how to maintain integrity while acting illegally how [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4851&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:56:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look at the following list.  How many of these things do you do? make promises and commitments you do not keep show up late and/or not prepared for meetings, or don’t show up at all surreptitiously read documents, answer emails, work on other matters while in meetings fail to return telephone calls when promised lie [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4832&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dubya&#8217;s Yap Yap</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/07/01/dubyas-yap-yap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 01:48:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[News to gladden the heart of every Australian: John Howard, former Prime Minister, has missed out on becoming president of the International Cricket Council.  Just cacked myself reading the comments on the news item in The Age, including this priceless googly from one Bob Lansdowne: Best news I&#8217;ve heard since Dubya&#8217;s Yap Yap got bumrushed [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4816&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Follow the money, or Org Chart Bingo #1</title>
		<link>http://solidgoldcreativity.com/2010/06/27/follow-the-money-or-org-chart-bingo-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 11:26:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For years I&#8217;ve had a dark hobby:  ogling org charts.  As a consultant it rather goes with the territory of starting an engagement with a client, or prospecting for future clients.  Why?  Because the org chart is God&#8217;s gift to the consultant and anyone else who wants a direct window on to what it&#8217;s like [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=solidgoldcreativity.com&blog=4537927&post=4759&subd=solidgoldcreativity&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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