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		<title>My best tech solutions from 2011</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 07:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People are always asking me what cool gadget am I using to be more effective. So I thought I would list some of the best tech. solutions I have been using in 2011 and will keep using into &#8217;12. Let me know what your favorites are &#8211; enjoy! Each one...]]></description>
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		<title>The gift of feedback</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 18:32:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing worse than the email that starts with “We have to talk….”. It’s natural that getting feedback ranks with other fun events like flu shots and trips to the dentist. It’s simple; nobody wants to be told they screwed up. But what if receiving feedback was something you were...]]></description>
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		<title>Do you remember the facsimile?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2011 07:31:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a keynote last week I was telling the story about our first facsimile machine. It was so big that it was delivered on a dolly to our Granville Island office. This new wonder of technology and communications even had it’s own table. And, like a Skinner experiment, we leaped...]]></description>
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		<title>How to stop the silly and get your team back on track</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 07:42:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a super simple way to energize your team and get them on the right track (and stop the silly behavior that drives you nuts) with immediate performance improvements. I first learned about this process from Dr. Bill Guillory as we debriefed my Soul At Work conference in 2000...]]></description>
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		<title>What no one will tell you about success</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about success. I need to. I only have so many hours to work with and I’m frankly tired of working hard at my business. I also have loads of interests in my life that I love spending time on, like: my gals,...]]></description>
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		<title>The two greatest lies.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Aug 2011 07:14:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maybe there are others, but it strikes me that there are two lies that we get suckered into that trump all others. See if you agree. The first lie is that some thing will make you happy. This is the lie of the marketing agencies, the travel bureaus, self-help authors,...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch out for inertia</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 07:30:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was giving a talk in Toronto today to the very-cool team in the Telus marketing department and I shared some thoughts about business heroes that I thought you might like. I’ve always been impressed by heroes of the business world. Who couldn’t admire Ted Turner who brought us the...]]></description>
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		<title>Efficient or Effective-what’s your eff’n choice?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Jul 2011 07:44:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here are two words that are spending a lot of time in my sentences lately: ‘efficient’ and ‘effective’—and they’re very different. When we become more efficient we get better and faster at something like responding to our email, scheduling, or filling in forms. But, when we become more effective we...]]></description>
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		<title>Maybe we need to get lazy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 07:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m really enjoying Tony Hsieh’s book Delivering Happiness about his meteoric build of Zappos.com (www.zappos.com) to a $1B+ company in just 10 years and eventual sale to Amazon in 2010. Not only is this a wild ride of a young entrepreneur putting it all on the line to build the...]]></description>
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		<title>Get Some Sleep.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jun 2011 06:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have trouble getting your eight hours a night? It seems that far too many of us are sleep deprived and operating on half-charged batteries. For years I prided myself on how I could scrim on the zzzzz&#8217;s and get more done than most. And then it started to catch up...]]></description>
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		<title>Want to Watch Less TV?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 16:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Want to watch less TV? Read this. &#8220;I don&#8217;t know what to do, so I watch TV.&#8221; says Theresa. I&#8217;m sitting at a booth at the Saskatchewan Marathon race Expo and wondering how to respond. Theresa had heard my interview with Jeff Rogstad on the local CTV show, called the...]]></description>
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		<title>Productivity tools worth trying</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 12:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trying to be more efficient is a worthy goal &#8211; fortunately there are some cool tools to try out for us computer-bound slaves. Here are some of the ones I have been using for the past year that work. Try them out and let me know if they help! Evernote...]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Totally Honest?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 23:00:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you honest? We all had it drilled into us as kids - Tell the truth. Honesty is the best medicine. Never lie. And we are honest-kind of. We tell our clients the truth, sort of. We tell our husband/wife/partner the truth, mostly. We tell our kids the truth, usually....]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me a Break-Book Trailer</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:33:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why is it that so many movies have better trailers than that actual movie? I don&#8217;t know, but I&#8217;m hoping that my little trailer is actually NOT as good as the book. Have a look&#8230;. And buy the book Give Me a Break-Book Trailer View more presentations from Hugh Culver.]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Wrong With Good Technique?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 06:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3959</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In a workshop this week one person complained that the communication technique I was suggesting would be spotted as a &#8220;technique&#8221;. You know the old complaint: &#8220;Have you just come from a communication workshop?&#8221; Nonsense. Here&#8217;s the reality (from my perspective of course). You can&#8217;t improve your communication until you...]]></description>
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		<title>Are you Addicted to being Busy?</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/are-you-addicted-to-being-busy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 06:30:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3815</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You are waiting for the computer to reboot and you are tapping your fingers in frustration. You just flipped through three magazines at the dentist&#8217;s office and read none of them. You have twenty minutes before a meeting starts and have no clue how to use the time. Are you...]]></description>
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		<title>Once and for all, how to read</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/once-and-for-all-how-to-read/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Feb 2011 07:05:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3762</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I took a speed-reading course and read &#8216;War and Peace&#8217; in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. –Woody Allen Hi, this is an excerpt from my new book: Give Me a Break: the art of making Time work for You. You can get the whole book here » How do you...]]></description>
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		<title>On the Subject of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3749</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need to go to the bookstore to know there will always be more stuff written on leadership than you can absorb. The &#8220;new&#8221; leadership models promoted by Drucker, Covey, Peters, De Pree, and Bennis (and many more) promoted hundreds more authors to throw their two bits into the...]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me a Break (NEW!)</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/speaking/give-me-a-break-new/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 16:59:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=4027</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The art of making time work for you We are working in a time of distraction &#8211; endless emails, back-to-back meetings, interruptions, and growing work demands are taking their toll. People are constantly rushing, multi-tasking, bringing work home, and struggling to find time for themselves and their family. Based on...]]></description>
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		<title>Watch for Meeting Creep</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/watch-for-meeting-creep/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 07:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3446</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It happens innocently, two people need to discuss something so the time gets booked, two others are invited to &#8220;keep them in the loop&#8221;, one more calls in remotely and before you know it you have &#8220;meeting creep&#8221; (like scope creep, but more sinister). Sure, meetings are invaluable&#8211;we connect, see...]]></description>
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		<title>Five Ways to be Happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 07:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3534</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is one of the hottest topics on the bookshelves? Happiness. Go figure. One generation ago they would have scratched their collective heads and said &#8220;Huh?&#8221; In my dear Dad&#8217;s era the mantra was about going to work, feeding the family, and a cabin to go work on for the...]]></description>
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		<title>11 Ways to Make 2011 Great</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/hughs-blog/11-ways-to-make-2011-great/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 07:02:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3498</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[1. Shake your booty daily &#8211; give your heart and muscles a workout and they will return the favor for years to come. 2. Get up an hour earlier &#8211; start the day with a plan that includes time for just you &#8211; success starts early. 3. Use your OFF...]]></description>
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		<title>This is Your Year to Create</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Jan 2011 07:05:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3469</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t ever think someone else is to blame. Every moment, every day, and every year we are given the keys to that instant and that outcome. And that&#8217;s exciting. The obligatory resolutions, &#8220;Must-Do&#8217;s&#8221;, &#8220;Will-Do&#8217;s&#8221;, and &#8220;To-Do&#8217;s&#8221; are filling note pads as we approach 2011. And I&#8217;m a big believer in...]]></description>
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		<title>Why 70% of Entrepreneurs Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 07:15:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3422</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The statistics are dismal: for every ten new business started today only three will still be answering the phone in 2015. All that energy, enthusiasm, and investment, and the payoff is failure. How come? I’ve been at this game of business for some time (Okay, a long time) and I’ve...]]></description>
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		<title>On being more selfish</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 07:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3417</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was growing up the puritanical, give-in order-to-receive ethic was driven into my psyche. You gave up your chair, put money in the hat, and doled out soup for the needy without thinking—it was simply what we do. Then we turn 50 and start doing our own inventory: How’s...]]></description>
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		<title>Are you in the hall?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 07:34:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I’m about to leave the CAPS (Canadian Association of Professional Speakers) annual convention in Montreal and wondering if I held back. Every day, as I headed to the next session I would spot one or two lone soles, obviously with the convention, yet sitting on a couch by themselves. The...]]></description>
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		<title>Give Me a Break</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/products/give-me-a-break-book/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 10:40:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3273</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This downloadable e-book reveals the real cost of a multi-tasking, crazy-busy, always distracted lifestyle and what to do about it.]]></description>
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		<title>Today is a gift</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 03:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=3009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s human nature; we tend to see what is off track, and not working more that what’s right with the day. All around us is evidence of what is right with the world, but instead we are hung up on the insensitive email that Tony just sent.  Our myopic, negative,...]]></description>
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		<title>Protected: Booster Juice &#8211; Follow-up Notes</title>
		<link>http://www.hughculver.com/client-notes/booster-juice-follow-up-notes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Oct 2010 06:28:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.hughculver.com/?p=2836</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.]]></description>
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		<title>Dead last and happy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2010 13:41:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve spent a lot of time in kayaks, either white water boats or ocean kayaks. I guess I would have to say I’m very experienced having tackled some pretty gnarly rivers (like the Colorado, the Bio Bio in Southern Chile and the Zambezi in Africa) and being the occasional guide...]]></description>
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		<title>Halton Region – Strategies for Growth 25 Feb 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:53:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hugh Culver</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi, and thanks for visiting my site. I want to provide you with more information about my presentation today in Halton. The following are some presentation notes that provide some more depth to the topics I presented. culver-small-stuff-presentation-note-halton-25021 Also you might be interested in more specifics around time management &#8211;...]]></description>
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