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		<title>Moving house&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 19:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We moved house last weekend, straight across the road to a house with exactly the same layout. It&#8217;s as though we just picked it up, turned it 180 degrees and put it down again. Some observations&#8230; we no longer have the warmest garage on the street: instead, we have a lovely little sun-trap on the <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/05/moving-house-2/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>A Cage of Monkeys</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 07:37:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Start with a cage containing five monkeys. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, a monkey will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, spray all of the other monkeys with very <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/05/a-cage-of-monkeys/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Governance experiences</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 19:26:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Governance is a major issue in not-for-profits in New Zealand and they say that there are not enough experienced people on their boards. There may be an explanation&#8230; Over the past 12 months, I&#8217;ve had some interesting experiences with not for profit boards and committees. Three come to mind. Number One The first was with <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/05/governance-experiences/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Stuff that&#8217;s going on&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2012 05:54:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent activites: Bought our son an Optimist dinghy. He&#8217;s turning into a very confident and competent sailor. The next step up is a Starling so we bought one of those too, which brings to the second point&#8230; I&#8217;ve started sailing again &#8211; in the Starling! Just love it. We were out sailing at sunset <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/03/stuff-thats-going-on/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Professionalism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2012 06:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some time back, working as one of a group of BAs on a project that allowed us considerable professional autonomy, I had reason to call a colleague who had recently departed. You know, BA-to-BA, get the handover that can&#8217;t be done in writing. The phone call went like this: Hello, I&#8217;d like to have a <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/03/professionalism/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Non-service</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Mar 2012 06:06:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strangest form of &#8220;service&#8221; I&#8217;ve yet experienced. I boarded my train one evening and it left on time &#8211; nothing unusual in that other than the fact that it&#8217;s not very common. About 10 minutes into an 18 minute ride, the train stopped and the train manager came through and informed us that there was <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/03/non-service/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Metropolis and the NZSO</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Mar 2012 06:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Saturday 5 November last year, we attended a screening of the recently restored complete, uncut version of Fritz Lang&#8217;s Metropolis, first screened at the Berlin International Film Festival in Feb 2010. Gottfried Huppertz&#8217; score was performed live by the NZ Symphony Orchestra. The setting was fitting. The film was projected onto a large screen <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/03/metropolis-and-the-nzso/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Organising boats</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 05:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A lesson in team process. Democracy Autocracy Initiative These are the three phases I observed when organising the transport of boats and children to a sailing camp a few weeks ago. It all started when I didn&#8217;t move quickly enough when the call went out for volunteers but the experience was well worth my sloth-like <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/03/organising-boats/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tools focus&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 06:03:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By dint of marketing noise, tool vendors have captured the hearts and minds of most executives. The temptation is now more than ever to adopt the operating model delivered by the toolset and, or is that &#8220;to&#8221;, stop thinking… But what do your employees look to you for? Leadership and guidance. Why hand that over <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/02/tools-focus/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Operations are key</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2012 06:05:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephen Hay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Operations, and nothing else, is the area of your company that creates value for your customers and generates revenue. IT doesn’t do it, finance just reports on what is achieved through operations and HR provides the people needed to deliver service. For all the talk of strategy, and the amount of money spent on it, <a href='http://www.making-hay.com/2012/02/operations-are-key/' class='excerpt-more'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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