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	<title>Karim Vaes</title>
	<link>http://www.kvaes.be</link>
	<description>Why chop at leaves, when one must dig at roots</description>
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		<title>Why IT shouldn&#8217;t be run as a business&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Need an out-of-the-box opinion on running it?  Check &#8220;Infoworld&#8217;s Run IT as a business &#8212; why that&#8217;s a train wreck waiting to happen&#8221;&#8230;
Intro
&#8220;If you board the wrong train, it&#8217;s no use running along the corridor in the other direction,&#8221; said famed World War II German resistance fighter Dietrich Bonhoeffer. We in IT boarded the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/cio/why-it-shouldnt-be-run-as-a-business/</link>
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		<title>Sushi Etiquette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where I do love sushi and sashimi, I was unaware that there was a certain etiquette involved&#8230;




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		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/fun/sushi-etiquette/</link>
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		<title>Wage cut or wage freeze?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Source : Sticky Wages
Check out the above story&#8230;  It refers to the term &#8220;sticky wage&#8221; where companies didn&#8217;t cut wages in recessions.  They just made them &#8220;grow slower&#8221;&#8230;  Yet lately there have been actions where wages were cut and it&#8217;s an odd move when thinking of the following statements (which are quoted [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/quote/wage-cut-or-wage-freeze/</link>
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		<title>Basic business money making concepts</title>
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These will probably give you a clear sound &#8220;Duh, offcourse!&#8221;, yet it&#8217;s the basics we need to comprehend.
(Source : Personal MBA)

Product: make a physical product, then sell and deliver it for more than it cost.
Service: provide a useful service, then charge a fee.
Shared Resource: create a shared resource that can be used by many people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/business/basic-business-money-making-concepts/</link>
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		<title>Quote of the day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If you provide the servers and workstations and applications for an organization, that&#8217;s IT. When they cut your budget and make you responsible for the &#8216;phones as well, that&#8217;s ICT.&#8221; posted at &#8220;IT Job Satisfaction Plummets To All-Time Low&#8221; on ./
Apart from that quote, I do see a lot of truth&#8217;s buried in the (other) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/quote/quote-of-the-day/</link>
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		<title>A little motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Where did I stumble upon this? 



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		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/quote/a-little-motivation/</link>
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		<title>Wrapperscript around ghettoVCB</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This script is handy if you want to backup a (free) ESXi server without console access.  You set this script up in a cron of a seperate server, which will initiate the backups.  It heavily relies on ghettoVCB, a great tool!  If you&#8217;re looking for a more professional tool, check out esxpress [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/vmware/wrapperscript-around-ghettovcb/</link>
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		<title>The business sweeper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The concept of a soccer sweeper is something that can be applied to business formations too.  The objective of a sweeper is to clear dangers that got past the initial defense.

I know it might sound strange to see &#8220;customer request&#8221; of &#8220;business actions&#8221; as an attack, but bare with me&#8230; We tend to set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/management/the-business-sweeper/</link>
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		<title>Going 70 20 10&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 70/20/10 Model is a business resource management model pioneered by Eric E. Schmidt. This model dictates that, to cultivate innovation, employees of a company should utilize their time in the following ratio:

70% of time should be dedicated to core business tasks.
20% of time should be dedicated to projects related to the core business.
10% of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/management/going-70-20-10/</link>
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		<title>Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Dan Pink



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		<link>http://www.kvaes.be/ted/dan-pink-on-the-surprising-science-of-motivation/</link>
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