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		<title>Don’t Surround a Great Dane with Chihuahuas: How to Retain Your Best Employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Retain your best employees:  Don’t Surround a Great Dane with Chihuahuas]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/11/23/don%e2%80%99t-surround-a-great-dane-with-chihuahuas/</link>
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		<title>don’t neglect your superstars by only focusing on your problem children.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not enough to just hire A-players – you have to be able to keep them.  Toward this end, don’t neglect your superstars by only focusing on your problem children]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/11/22/don%e2%80%99t-neglect-your-superstars-by-only-focusing-on-your-problem-children/</link>
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		<title>The Most Important Questions to Ask in an Interview</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After you interview someone, is there enough evidence in their life and career to “convict” them of being an A-player?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/10/12/the-most-important-questions-to-ask-in-an-interview/</link>
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		<title>LinkedIn Career Explorer – Helping Your A-Players to Visualize their Future (with or without you)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LinkedIn is introducing its Career Explorer system (initially just to high school students, soon to everyone) that allows people to map out their next career move – and it likely won’t be inside your company. ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/10/05/linkedin-career-explorer-%e2%80%93-helping-your-a-players-to-visualize-their-future-with-or-without-you/</link>
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		<title>The Worst Salesperson to Hire is the B-Player</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When you hire an A-Player, you know immediately that you have found someone special who will be a great part of and contributor to your business.  When you hire a C or D-player, you know immediately that you have made a mistake, and you let them go.  But when you hire a B-player, you end up investing way too much time trying to turn them into an A-player, rather than spending more time up front to find the best salesperson.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/09/17/the-worst-salesperson-to-hire-is-the-b-player/</link>
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		<title>Are Your Great Danes Surrounded by Chihuahuas?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As I relate in my new book How to Hire A-Players, I know a financial analyst who recently received the highest performance review of anyone in her 400-person department. In fact, she was the only person in the entire department to receive a “superior” rating. While this was great for this individual, it was not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/08/09/are-your-great-danes-surrounded-by-chihuahuas/</link>
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		<title>Testimonial: Vistage International</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Eric Herrenkohl is in the top tier of speakers who have addressed the CEO members of my Vistage Groups.” Allen Hauge Group Chairman Vistage International]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/06/24/testimonial-vistage-international/</link>
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		<title>Now Reach a Little Higher</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ Success is defined by spending your time on activities and efforts that have meaning and value.  Don’t try to reach a little higher on everything in your life – you won’t make progress.  Identify the priorities for your life and your business, and then push yourself and your people to reach a little higher in those areas.  You will become more valuable and stand out in the process.]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/03/18/now-reach-a-little-higher/</link>
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		<title>Stop Making Bad Hires:  8 Steps for Improving Any Interview Process</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I first realized how unscientific the hiring process was in most companies when I worked as a recruiter in the financial arena.  I was placing CFOs, Controllers, and other financial personnel with some highly regarded companies.  My clients were very successful senior executives.  Yet there hiring process was unstructured and ineffective.  They were, of course, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/03/05/stop-making-bad-hires-8-steps-for-improving-any-interview-process/</link>
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		<title>No one is coming &#8211; we have to manage ourselves</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I wrote a Performance Principles eletter last month on the importance of taking 100% responsibility for ourselves and our careers.  Here is a link to the article and brief payoff of the material:  We Have to Manage Ourselves, January 2010 http://bit.ly/PP-ManageOurselves Peter Drucker wrote a classic article for the Harvard Business Review called Managing Oneself.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.herrenkohlblog.com/2010/02/15/no-one-is-coming-we-have-to-manage-ourselves/</link>
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