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		<title>Four Types of Risk</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2013 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been reading an old blog about &#8220;Epistemic, Ontological and Aleatory Risk&#8221; on Mathhew Squair&#8217;s blog, Critical Uncertainties.  I doubt I am alone in having to think hard to get my head around the definitions.  So, to help myself, I &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/04/24/four-types-of-risk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1407&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Risk &#8211; and How to Handle it</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/risk-and-how-to-handle-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:36:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Risk Happens!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The April 2013 edition of &#8220;The Best You&#8221; features my article on Risk Management: &#8220;Risk &#8211; and How to Handle it&#8220;. You can read it in the online version of the magazine here (you will need to register for a &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/04/04/risk-and-how-to-handle-it/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1395&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Astonishing Achievement</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/astonishing-achievement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 10:33:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Project Leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Heroes]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Adam Steltzner]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[John P. Grotzinger]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Peter Theisinger]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On 7 August 2013, NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) made an astonishing achievenment, landing the Mars rover Curiosity safely onto the planet. That Monday morning (6am UK time) I was glued to NASA TV, and I then wrote &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/astonishing-achievement/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1379&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Origins of Project Management</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/the-origins-of-project-management/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years, I have asserted that project management goes back to the pyramid builders and even earlier.  I like to imagine an ancient Egyptian official sketching a work breakdown for his (it would have been a man then, I &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/the-origins-of-project-management/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1359&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Ngram 01: &#34;project&#34;</media:title>
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		<title>Six Strategies for Managing Risk</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/six-strategies-for-managing-risk/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 10:25:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Project Leader]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Risk Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Managing risk requires active engagement with the potential event: you need to create a plan and execute it.  You must then review the outcomes and refine your plan if necessary. The rinse and repeat, as it says on my shampoo &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/12/six-strategies-for-managing-risk/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1335&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Emotional WIsdom</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/1353/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Feb 2013 10:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Smart to Wise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional intelligence]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[wisdom]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Smart to Wise was my hardest book to write, so far. And this includes the new book I have just sent to my publisher, Pearson, which is by far the most complex of my ten books to date. One of &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/07/1353/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1353&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Project Management Book Club</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/the-project-management-book-club/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2013 10:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Project Leader]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am delighted to have been invited to take part in The Project Management Book Club. If you do not know it &#8211; and are committed to developing your PM skills &#8211; you should. It is run by Thomas Kennedy. &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/02/05/the-project-management-book-club/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1342&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Get your OATS &#8211; Personal Time Management the PM Way</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/get-your-oats-personal-time-management-the-pm-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:30:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How do the principles of project management apply to personal time management? That was a question I asked myself the first time I was asked to deliver training on time management.  I had always been good at doing it and &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/30/get-your-oats-personal-time-management-the-pm-way/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1324&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Scope</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/project-scope/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Project Leader]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week we looked at defining a project with Goals and Objectives.  The third key component to project definition is Scope &#8211; the breadth and depth of your ambition. In the UK, we tend to speak of scope as being &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/22/project-scope/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1314&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Project Goals and Objectives</title>
		<link>http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/project-goals-and-objectives/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:31:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mike Clayton</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Brilliant Project Leader]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Projects start with a goal, an aim, a reason for doing, changing or making something. Your first stage in building a project is defining what that project is and, at the heart of that definition are three concepts: Goals, Objectives &#8230; <a href="http://mikeclayton.wordpress.com/2013/01/15/project-goals-and-objectives/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a><img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mikeclayton.wordpress.com&#038;blog=7908947&#038;post=1307&#038;subd=mikeclayton&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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