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	<title>Hal Alpiar's Blog</title>
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		<title>BUSINESS BUSYNESS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I&#8217;m too busy for you!&#8221;
(Translated: I&#8217;ll never be a leader because I don&#8217;t really care about anybody else!)
 
Is &#8220;I&#8217;m too busy for you!&#8221; the verbal or nonverbal message you might be putting out to others?
I just read a promotional endorsement written by someone I know who, years ago, I used to respect. He starts out his explanation of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/business-busyness/</link>
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		<title>LABOR DAY</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all work is labor.
                                   
Not all labor is work.
                                            
(A short post for bosses to copy and leave anonymously at certain workstations)
                                               
Is it true that some of us are lucky enough to be working for pleasure as well as pay, and that some of us labor for love alone? 
If you fit either of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/labor-day/</link>
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		<title>The Customer Cusp</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is There a Crack in Your 
                                                                     
Business Liberty Bell?
                                                                                                                                
Dear Ship Captain:
Maybe your people were never at liberty to learn how to hold on to customers when economic seas got rough? No, bungee cords are not the solution! Giving your people the freedom and incentive to learn is the solution. Why now when every penny [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/the-customer-cusp/</link>
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		<title>Business Imposters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Aha! Foiled Again!&#8221;
                                                  
[Adapted from the "Curses, foiled again!" expression originated by the classic "ROCKY &#38; BULLWINKLE" cartoon show...and with apologies to and acknowledgment of: the Northwest Minneapolis, MN, and Dartmouth, MA, hair salons of the same "Foiled Again" namesakes, also foiledagain.biz stationery and foiledagain.net custom foil stamping, and the "Foiled Again" CD and song and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/business-imposters/</link>
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		<title>Loyalty Counts!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sorry, Friends and Visitors ~~ It&#8217;s only been a day, and &#8220;Barnegat Girl&#8221; still has my mind and my heart captive (See 9/1 blog post below), so I&#8217;m taking off tonight instead of my usual Friday. Please return tomorrow for a post I promise that YOU will relate to, entitled: &#8220;Aha! Foiled Again!&#8221;
                                                 
Barnegat Girl &#38; Hal

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		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/loyalty-counts/</link>
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		<title>Teenage Trooper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;BARNEGAT GIRL&#8221; 
10/15/97 &#8211; 9/1/10   R.I.P.

 


&#8220;The BEST Golden Retriever Girl In The Whole World&#8221;


                                              
We are in deep sadness for having lost a dear family member and great friend and companion today.
It&#8217;s never a good time for letting go. This is especially true for the one who&#8217;s been the loyalest, sweetest, and most fun-loving guardian of our [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/09/teenage-trooper/</link>
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		<title>Business Separation and Divorce</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Feuding Families, 
                          
Combative Couples,
                                    
Peeved Partners  and
                                        
Belligerent Boards
                                             
Constant arguing, bitter and mean-spirited discussions, &#8220;business infidelity,&#8221; resentment, continuous bickering and back-biting, breaking trust and undermining confidences, changing changes.
. . . I want out and it&#8217;s time to go! 
                                                                              

Or, as the renown Scottish farmer/poet Robert Burns&#8217; prophesied in 1786 with his &#8220;Ode To A Wee [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/08/business-separation-and-divorce/</link>
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		<title>DECISIONS, DECISIONS . . .</title>
		<description><![CDATA[First and third OR 
                              
first and reverse?
                                            
Given the enviable place to have runners when you&#8217;re up (first base and third base), you might think tonight&#8217;s post is another baseball story, or first down and a reverse hand-off in football . . . Sorry, sports fans: This one&#8217;s about an unusual car, and your unusual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/08/decisions-decisions/</link>
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		<title>What are YOUR &#8220;Best Business Interests&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What you target
                                           
for your business 
                                      
may not be healthy!
                                  
Think of it this way: You really want a bacon-wrapped sausage smothered in melted cheese on a slice of buttered white bread with side orders of scrapple and syrup, chili cheese fries , Buffalo wings and onion rings with ranch dressing, finished off with deep-fried cream-filled [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/08/what-are-your-best-business-interests/</link>
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		<title>CHASING BUSINESS DREAMS</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sounds like a plan . . .
 
There&#8217;s something in your mind that you 
want to go after and try to make happen? 
                                          
You&#8217;ve been dreaming about it for, it seems, forever. You&#8217;ve been careful about not telling too many others, but those you do mention it to give you the same 3-way response: a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.halalpiar.com/2010/08/chasing-business-dreams/</link>
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