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	<description>Thoughts, dreams, and opinions of a guy named Chad Renando</description>
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		<title>The reality of chaos theory &#8211; will you ignore, control or embrace?</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/07/reality-of-chaos-theory-ignore-control-embrace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 05:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[They say 70% of strategic initiatives fail, and of those that succeed are only 60% effective. In an environment of uncertaintly, chaos theory presents a likely explanation.  My question to you is: will you 1) pretend it does not exist; 2) attempt to conform it to your will; or 3) accept and embrace it with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do you want spam on your pizza personality? A Twitter case study</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/do-you-want-spam-on-your-pizza-personality-a-twitter-case-study/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 04:22:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[My Pizza Personality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A month and over 600 responses into the My Pizza Personality project and my disillusionment with Twitter has solidified like congealed cheese.  After weeks of selling any self-respect in 140 characters or less, I now have a bad taste in my mouth.  However, that won’t stop me from going back for seconds with the thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Birthday reflections: Pizza personalities, digital studios, and middle management challenges</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/birthday-reflections-pizza-personalities-digital-studios-and-middle-management-challenges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/06/birthday-reflections-pizza-personalities-digital-studios-and-middle-management-challenges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 21:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Birthday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Blogging]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[change management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Having a birthday in June is good, as it presents an opportunity to reflect both as a half-way point through the year and a start of a new age.  This is also my first birthday with a blog.  In the interest of full disclosure, I pause to reflect on the thoughts behind the face looking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 3: Putting first things first</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/coveys-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-habit-3-first-things-first/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/coveys-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-habit-3-first-things-first/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 21:56:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[seven habist of highly effective people]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the most important thing you can be doing right now? We asked ourselves that question in the studio as we munched Cocoa Pops during our recent studio breakfast session reviewing Covey&#8217;s Habit 3: Putting First Things First. The take-away diagram from Habit 3 places everything we do in one of four quadrants based [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The story behind My Pizza Personality</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/the-story-behind-my-pizza-personality/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/the-story-behind-my-pizza-personality/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 May 2010 03:24:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[consumerism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[environmental sustainability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[My Pizza Personality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personality]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently launched www.mypizzapersonality.com to help you find your inner pizza and to help me answer a very critical question.  This is the story behind the project. Captain Planet Back in 2006, I spent 12 months at the Environmental Protection Agency preaching sustainability to business.  Each morning, I put on my Captain Planet underoos and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 2 (part 2): Finding and keeping your centre</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/covey-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-finding-and-keeping-your-centre/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/05/covey-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-finding-and-keeping-your-centre/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 May 2010 07:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What would you consider your centre?  Where are your values focused and from where do you draw your security, guidance, wisdom, and power?  These are questions Covey asks and we ask ourselves in the studio we work through in the second part of Habit 2: Keeping the End in Mind. As we worked through the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Green pizza: Social media, the environment, and fast food convenience</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/green-pizza-social-media-the-environment-and-fast-food-convenience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/green-pizza-social-media-the-environment-and-fast-food-convenience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Apr 2010 20:45:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[environemntal sustainability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[social media]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.renando.com/blog/?p=291</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I posted a while back about the complexities of our self-worship of the consumer god.  Looking into our deific motivations a bit more for some recent research, this consumer god is a pretty complex creature.  Just have a look at the diagram below* for some of the explanations that we have come up with to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How did you break your chin? (a reflection on self-disclosure reciprocity)</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/how-did-you-break-your-chin-a-reflection-on-self-disclosure-reciprocity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/how-did-you-break-your-chin-a-reflection-on-self-disclosure-reciprocity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Apr 2010 21:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[General Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[self-disclosure reciprocity]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[My kid traded her bike for pavement last week in her participation of one of life’s more popular character-building exercises.  As I conveyed the particulars of the gaping bone-revealing wound to my friends and colleagues, they responded in-kind with their own superman-flights off rooftops and stumbles down stairs.  Their responses made me aware of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency – Habit 2: Keeping the end in mind (the java jedi mind trick)</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/coveys-seven-habits-keeping-the-end-in-mind-the-java-jedi-mind-trick/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/coveys-seven-habits-keeping-the-end-in-mind-the-java-jedi-mind-trick/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Apr 2010 09:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Potential]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you have dealt with anyone you have considered a &#8220;client&#8221; or &#8220;customer&#8221;, you join millions who have followed a fairly typical five-step approach.  You 1) define objectives, 2) work out how (or if) you can meet those objectives, 3) apply effort towards meeting those objectives, 4) deliver against those objectives, and 5) look back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Covey’s Seven Habits for the Digital Agency &#8211; Habit 1: Be proactive</title>
		<link>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/coveys-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-habit-1-be-proactive/</link>
		<comments>http://www.renando.com/blog/index.php/2010/03/coveys-seven-habits-for-the-digital-agency-habit-1-be-proactive/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chad</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[it industry]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Potential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Roles]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[seven habist of highly effective people]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen R. Covey]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[  We recently started a morning “breakfast club” in the studio, and first topic is the desktop reading of Covey’s .Seven Habits of Highly Effective People. His first principle of being proactive has unique application to a digital studio such as ours. Between stimulus and response The first of two core concepts that stand out [...]]]></description>
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