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Dead Wood: High Value Antiques or Dangerous Rot?
Every organization must reckon with ‘old-timers’: staff who have served many years but may be past their most productive prime.What should you do with these folks?Firing them seems a mercenary way to run a business. But keeping them on staff can demotivate and demoralize others, increasing your payroll without improving profits.A journalist recently asked me point-blank, ‘What should companies do with their “dead wood”?’My answer was a question; ‘Is the “dead wood” raw material for valuable antiques, or is it dangerous rot?’Many long-serving staff have a wealth of experience, customer knowledge and good ideas. They can be valuable in training new staff, contacting and caring for customers, spreading goodwill for the company through public relations or community outreach programs.Long-serving staff may not be able to master the latest technology or move at the current pace of change, but their knowledge and proven skills could still be harnessed for the benefit of all. These team members are raw material for creating treasured and high-value antiques.One large company offered senior staff an option of retiring early or working in new capacities as recruiters, staff trainers or

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Okay first the Template then we will begin to divide it up.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <?xml-stylesheet type='text/css' > <rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">

Managing People; Living the Values
There has been an unedifying politicised debate in Australia about Australian values. It is a debate about who has them, who does not and seeks to ostracise those who are considered not to have them.It is a debate where the majority of the participants have demonstrated the values of ignorance, intolerance, opportunism and political wilfulness whilst claiming to support values of fairness, mateship and egalitarianism.That's the problem with values. They are demonstrated by what we do, not by what we say.No matter which community we belong to, whether it is our family, our school, our club or our employing organisation, we cannot escape demonstrating our values each day.Our values come from our beliefs which form generally at an early age dependent on our experiences and upbringing and it is difficult to impose them upon us.My school had a statement about values incorporated into a Latin phrase under the crest of the school. We were not taught Latin, so that made it difficult for any of us even in our formative years to be influenced by the school statement about values.Our school made an attempt at defining the school's values and made a poor job of it by writing it in a language no

The very first thing we need to do is understand the makeup of our "rss.xml" file. Well actually the very first thing we need to do is get a template to understand the makeup. We will go from the simple to the more complicated, so don't get stressed.

First point to remember. The template below does NOT include all possible options and/or variations. We will go from simple to complex. And I do not expect anyone to be able to get all the possible permutations at one shot. What we are simply trying to do is explain the layout so you can get the schema into your head and understand the various possibilities.

Of course if you are really into discovering all the techie jargon and possibilities about XML I suggest to start off at: http://www.feedvalidator.org/docs/rss2.html. This will lead you slowly and surely into the possibilities of RSS template creation and all its permutations.

If you are a "techie" or the inner workings of HTML and XML are not a mystery to you, then the template below will be fairly self-explanatory. However, if you are new to the world of XML and especially RSS then it would be a good idea to take the few minutes to study this template and all the explanations.

One of the points to remember is that if you do a Google or Yahoo search for "RSS templates" or something along that line you will come up with a great many articles. Unfortunately, most of those articles are written on a level that demands you have some expertise in these areas. Below I am going to try and explain in "layman" terms what each entry means.

XML has its own markup language. All the commands like HTML are enclosed in <> as you can see below. Some commands demand that the "command" or "code" be placed between the < opening and the ending > such as the first line in the template:

Don't get scared. It really is not as difficult as it looks. Okay now I did promise "layman" terms so here goes. Lets divide this template up into THREE sections.

Now for the next parts. It is a linear table as usually all logic in computers is. This is not the place to get into arguments of logical systems however we do think in a linear format. So there are two parts.

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