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		<title>The New Assignment</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you get a new assignment, stand back and look at the big picture. How does it contribute to the company objectives? What do you know know about the assignment? What do you not know about it? Where can you find more information about it? You should start in the beginning to find the answers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Design</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2010 14:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is easy to make a program that is right, faster. It is difficult to make a program that is fast, right. — Michael A. Jackson (1936- ) When you work on a solution to a problem, you should first aim at creating something that works. Concentrate on doing it right. Include everything that comes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do We Fall?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:44:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Batman Begins, Alfred Pennyworth said, &#8220;Why do we fall, sir? So that we might learn to pick ourselves up again.&#8221; Although this line sounds good, it fails to capture the real reason for the fall. We fall because we act on some incorrect premises. We have made bad assumptions about the situation; acting on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Focus and Concentration</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Where do you focus your attention? Do you focus on one thing or does your focus jump from one thing to another, never staying in one place long enough to really accomplish anything? Focus does not mean the same thing as concentration. Concentration means sustained focus combined with intense mental effort. Concentration involves time, focus [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strict Frameworks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When forced to work within a strict framework the imagination is taxed to its utmost—and will produce its richest ideas. Given total freedom the work is likely to sprawl. – T.S. Eliot Eliot suggests here that we produce better results when we work under the pressure of a strict framework. How does this happen? If we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspiration</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 19:20:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In her book, The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers, Ayn Rand defines inspiration in the following way: What is colloquially called &#8220;inspiration&#8221;—namely, that you write without full knowledge of why you write as you do, yet it comes out well—is actually the subconscious summing-up of the premises and intentions you have set for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do It Once</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I don&#8217;t do more, but less, than other people. They do all their work three times over: once in anticipation, once in actuality, once in rumination. I do mine in actuality alone, doing it once instead of three times.&#8221; &#8211; Henry Ward Beecher When you begin a task, start it in actuality. Focus your energy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Persistence</title>
		<link>http://www.markwc.com/2009/09/persistence/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 23:25:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Without ambition, one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. – Ralph Waldo Emerson To succeed at most things in life, you must have persistence.  Persistence requires focus, action, and discipline. Without these three components you will flounder on your way. Focus keeps [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ACK E-mail</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 21:36:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When two devices communicate with one another, the receiver of a message responds with an ACK message, acknowledging that it received and understood the sender&#8217;s message. If the receiver does not understand the message, it sends a NACK acknowledging receipt and signaling that the message came in corrupted. In either instance, the sender knows that the message [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:40:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Christiansen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do you define productivity? The word comes from the same root as produce. What do you produce? What does your company produce? Do your work activities lead to your company products? If not, you do lots of non-productive stuff for your company. Sometimes we call some of the things we do busy work. Busy work [...]]]></description>
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