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	<title>Alex S. Brown, PMP IPMA-C &#187; Projects</title>
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		<title>&#8220;The Twelve Meetings of Christmas&#8221; Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Nov 2011 21:37:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The holiday season is approaching, and Christmas is a popular holiday here in the US. In honor of the season, here is a project-management version of the classic song &#8220;The Twelve Days of Christmas&#8221;:

At the first meeting of Christmas, my PM gave to me:

A green light on on the project grid

I will leave it to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Brand&#8221; Not &#8220;THE Brand&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Apr 2010 18:10:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My brand is about "a", not "THE". A good brand can be about "a" not "THE". My brand is better with "a", not "THE".]]></description>
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		<title>Project Communication and Your Emotions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2010 17:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Communication is widely recognized as a critical skill for project managers. Our work depends on accurate, clear communication.

Project managers tend to be practical, fact-oriented people. When we speak, write, read, and listen, we focus on facts.

Every communication has an emotional context, though. Are you aware of that context? Are you intentionally using that context to create an emotional response in your audience?]]></description>
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		<title>A Sad, Sad Day for Project Managers &#8211; PM SPAM</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:27:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The story of the first project management spam campaign.]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;So You Want to Be an Independent Consultant&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:57:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is hard to get an independent consultant to be frank and forthcoming about their business. During this one-hour recording, you will get an insider&#8217;s view of what it is like to go from being an employee to an independent consultant. The audience had hard-hitting, personal questions, and they got full, open answers.



Thinking of Becoming [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Introducing Project Management In Your Organization&#8221; Recorded Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2008 01:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introducing project management to an organization is hard work. By appealing to the strategists and the senior executives in your organization, it is possible to make project management grow and flourish.

The main speech:
Follow-up discussion the following day:
Video of the whole speech, including discussion the following day:



Press “play” to begin. The speech will start after the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Strategic Project Management&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
		<link>http://www.alexsbrown.com/strat-pm-recording.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexsbrown.com/strat-pm-recording.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:26:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hear one of my first speeches to put together strategic planning and project management. Hear the story of how a real company was able to implement its strategy through projects, and the unexpected benefits the company gained.




Press “play” to begin. The speech will start after the introduction. If you want to hear the introduction, click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;A Kinder, Gentler, Project Manager Joke&#8221; Recording</title>
		<link>http://www.alexsbrown.com/genie-joke-video.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.alexsbrown.com/genie-joke-video.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Projects]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A two-minute joke about a project manager and his team. The classic joke is not very nice to project managers, so this joke has a different ending.




Having trouble using the built-in player? Download the full speech in any of these formats:

MP3 Audio
Ogg Speex Audio
iPod Video
AVI Video

]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;The Charter: Selling Your Project&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Dec 2008 05:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI North America Congress on September 12, 2005. The entire 54-minute speech will play below, with slides synchronized to the audio, and it is also available as an audio or video podcast from this site.

     Available as a four-contact hour, four PDU [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Project Charters Bridge Cultures&#8221; Speech Recording</title>
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		<comments>http://www.alexsbrown.com/project-charters-speech.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2008 03:57:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn how project charters successfully bridged cultural gaps when making decisions among a community of Japanese and U.S. executives. Establishing a clear chartering process was the key to project management&#8217;s success at the company. The presentation will include templates and overviews of the processes established.
This speech was delivered and recorded live for the PMI New [...]]]></description>
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