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		<title>3rd and State &#8212; 12th and Walker:  Worlds Apart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, on the way to El Rey, my husband and I drove down Washington Street.  As we passed 12th, I looked up the street and could see, a block away, the flowers and memorials in front of what had to be the home of Rachel Thompson and her two sons. I looked at the house, amazed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Taking Care of Business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been in business for 15 years &#8211; started in January 1995 about five minutes after the Social Development Commission made a disasterous pick for executive director, a woman who resigned two years later amid allegations of misappropriation of funds, lying about her credentials, a ton of stuff that confirmed my decision to boogie when I did.  I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/02/taking-care-of-business/</link>
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		<title>The Art of the Apology in Professional Life</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot written about the art of the apology.  In family life, if you don&#8217;t know how to apologize, you&#8217;re really in for a lot of heartache.  But the art of apology is just as important in professional life.  Here&#8217;s where a lot of people&#8217;s fear of taking responsibility overwhelms them.  So instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/02/the-art-of-the-apology-in-professional-life/</link>
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		<title>R-E-S-P-E-C-T Get It?  Don&#8217;t Forget It.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I want a job and a way to get there.  And I want people to treat me with respect. That&#8217;s all.  Don&#8217;t look down on me or talk down to me. It&#8217;s not my fault that I&#8217;m homeless.&#8221;  This from a homeless guy in his mid-fifties (he told me, I&#8217;m not guessing) who wasted no [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/02/r-e-s-p-e-c-t-get-it-dont-forget-it/</link>
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		<title>Holy Crap!  You Want It When?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Deadlines rule your life?  Feel like someone is always chasing you?    Having dreams about getting to the airport just as your plane is leaving? 
Oh, I hear you.  Do I ever.  My whole life is about deadlines &#8211; so I&#8217;ve learned something about how to manage complex projects in a short time frame.  Some of this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/02/holy-crap-you-want-it-when/</link>
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		<title>The Great Rondini</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you go to Key West, you have to see The Great Rondini.  A magician, escape artist, and extremely caustic comic, Rondini specializes in zeroing in on people and making them squirm to the delight of the crowd&#8230;.he remarked to my husband how nice it must be to get off the tractor for a while.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/02/the-great-rondini/</link>
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		<title>A Planner&#8217;s Thoughts about Haiti</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Smarter people than me will analyze the catastrophe in Haiti and ensuing relief efforts but from my view as a community planner, here are some lessons we might learn.  First,  when they need to, people will organize themselves to improve their situation.  Examples &#8211; families and neighbors tackling terrifying rescues of people buried in piles of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/01/a-planners-thoughts-about-haiti/</link>
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		<title>Speechless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day &#8212; time for speeches.  Reflection.  Words of wisdom.  Don&#8217;t have much.  Watching the coverage of the evolving tragedy in Haiti and wondering what the lessons are.
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		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/01/speechless/</link>
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		<title>Victory and Defeat: Sometimes You Eat the Bear&#8230;Sometimes the Bear Eats You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was thinking of this piece before Aaron Rodgers kicked his bobbled ball into the hands of the Cardinals linebacker, losing the Packers first playoff game since 2007.  The look on Rodgers&#8217; face said it all &#8212; oh, to have gotten this far &#8211; within yards of winning &#8211; and then lose everything.  The Packers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://jwilberg.com/2010/01/victory-and-defeat-sometimes-you-eat-the-bear-sometimes-the-bear-eats-you/</link>
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		<title>Kicking Ass and Taking Names: Boosting Accountability in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m a professional evaluator.  What that basically means &#8211; once you wipe away all the program reports and statistics &#8211; is that I have a super-sensitive BS detector.  I can walk in the door of a program and know it&#8217;s either the real deal or fakeroo within about 10 minutes.  Same thing with outcome data [...]]]></description>
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