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		<title>Landing the $1 Million Event</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 21:13:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point in your tenure, if you run an event planning company or agency, you’ll aspire to land the really big project, the mega event, the million dollar event.  OK, it doesn’t have to be a million dollars; it can be $100,000, $250,000, etc.  The number is variable; the key element is that the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Giving Away Your Ideas to Win New Business</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few people are going to steal your ideas.

Not a lot, and certainly not as many as people might think, but a few will.  Yet whatever that number is, it pales in comparison to the number of people who will hire you, recommend you, and rave about you as a result of the ideas you shared freely.]]></description>
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		<title>Confessions Of A Blogger In Hiding: Lessons In Losing Your Creativity</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 20:36:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My name is Howard Givner.
I’m a blogger.
It’s been 13 months since my last blog post.  (This is where you all say in unison, “Hi Howard”).

As I write this, I feel like I’m at the podium at an AA meeting, pressed to explain why I haven’t posted in over a year.  In thinking about it, I can break it down into a 3 step process.]]></description>
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		<title>The Fallacy of Win-Win Negotiations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Feb 2012 21:07:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the past ten years or so, any article, seminar or blog post on negotiations seems to focus on &#8220;kinder, gentler, negotiations&#8221;. It&#8217;s all &#8220;win-win&#8221; negotiations now, and nobody gets the better of anybody.  Planner and supplier discuss their needs, and work out a kumbaya-style agreement, after which they stroll arm and arm into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Everyone Has A Plan Until They Get Punched In The Mouth&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reporter:  “I hear your opponent has a clever plan for defensing your left hook.  How do you respond?” (Heavyweight boxing champ) Mike Tyson:  “Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.” How great is that quote?  Tyson, of course, was known far more for his fierce punching power, intimidating stare, and occasional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Looking At Your Operation with Fresh Eyes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 01:53:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yahoo is in trouble.  This one-time colossus of the internet world, that was for many years the darling of investors, has lost its way.  After firing CEO Carol Bartz in September, the Board of Directors Business launched a strategic review of the company.  Business pundits say it has time for one more CEO change, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Association is Dead.  Long Live the Association.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Remind me why I should renew my membership again?” This is a phrase every association is grappling with, and how they respond now will determine whether they survive or slowly die out. Twenty years ago if you wanted education and networking opportunities within your profession, associations were the place to go. In fact, they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs, Calligraphy &amp; Crowd-Sourcing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 03:53:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that game where you fantasize about whom you’d invite to a dinner party?  Well, Steve Jobs was always high on my list.  (Along with Winston Churchill).  When I heard that he died, I felt a tremendous sense of sadness and loss.  Jobs was someone who saw a better way to do things, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telling Truth to Power (Clients)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“The customer is always right,” is a mantra we hear so often that it’s become canonized as one of the first rules of business.  Alas, like most sweeping generalizations, it is also blindly misapplied.  For while it might make plenty of sense in retail, when it comes to consulting (or event planning), it can ruin [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Getting Your Business to that Elusive &#8216;Next Level&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:14:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Howard Givner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you’re in school they make it pretty clear what it takes for you to move up to the next grade: do your homework, pass your finals and maintain a certain grade point average, and off you go.  Out in the workplace, it gets a little harder, but in most companies you can also find [...]]]></description>
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