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	<description>a survivor's guide</description>
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		<title>Everything I do is so much harder than anything you do (the hero expression)</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2012/02/01/everything-i-do-is-so-much-harder-than-anything-you-do-the-hero-expression/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After a while in a senior position, control freaks begin to deliberately adopt an aura around them that everything they do is really hard. This aura, as with many things control freaks do, is developed both by how they talk and their facial expressions. On the facial side, they wear a pained expression at opportune [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I could talk about &#8230;&#8221; but then doesn&#8217;t</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2012/01/17/i-could-talk-about-but-then-doesnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:55:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a superb way I&#8217;ve seen people establish credibility without ever proving it. There are often situations where a control freak feels it necessary to exaggerate their experience to gain control, but the usual method that people choose to do this is to say too much, which is where they can get caught out. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Losing it</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2011/12/20/losing-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 03:16:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Control freaks expend considerable energy in manipulating the world around them. There are so many fronts they need to watch for new developments and so many lies they need to maintain. The bigger their ambitions the wider they have to cast their net. This is why you often see control freaks abandon a whole set [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A monopoly of ideas</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/12/15/a-monopoly-of-ideas/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/12/15/a-monopoly-of-ideas/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why do some managers think they are the only people who have good ideas?  Okay, maybe they don&#8217;t think that way, but they certainly act like it. Here are some obvious behaviour display of this weakness: Do they automatically reject any big idea they have not had themselves? Do they always want to tweak something, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Setting up a straw man</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/30/setting-up-a-straw-man/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/30/setting-up-a-straw-man/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 23:19:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Setting up a straw man is one of the most blindingly obvious techniques a control freak will use in an argument. I&#8217;ve seen it being used so often with such success that I just cannot believe people do not pick up on it more often. There are two basic ways of setting up a straw [...]]]></description>
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		<title>But you&#8217;re the one who caused the problem!</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/25/but-youre-the-one-who-caused-the-problem/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/25/but-youre-the-one-who-caused-the-problem/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:37:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There you are in a meeting when someone pipes up with a problem they&#8217;ve spotted that needs fixing and your jaw drops open because you know perfectly well that they were the person who caused the problem in the first place. What seems really odd is that they&#8217;ve just lobbed the problem into the conversation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfection is the enemy of the good</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/10/perfection-is-the-enemy-of-the-good/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/11/10/perfection-is-the-enemy-of-the-good/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Nov 2007 21:27:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Everyone has their own limit on what is good enough, what will do, what they will accept.  Some people have fairly low limits and some have extraordinarily high limits. From what I&#8217;ve seen, those who set the higher limits, those that really push others for things to be done well, those that demand perfection, tend [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sustaining a culture</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/10/31/sustaining-a-culture/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/10/31/sustaining-a-culture/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Oct 2007 06:24:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The culture of an organisation does not sustain itself. Left to its own devices culture shifts in unpredictable directions as new people arrive with different backgrounds and others, who were part of it, move on. In small places were the people don&#8217;t change then maybe it can remain fairly constant, but even then people forget [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stick to the plan, no matter what</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/10/09/stick-to-the-plan-no-matter-what/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/10/09/stick-to-the-plan-no-matter-what/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Oct 2007 07:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love a good plan and I normally plan everything at work. It is only by an effort of will that I don&#8217;t plan what order to walk down the aisles in a supermarket. After all, too much planning can be the anti-thesis of spontaneity. Most of my plans are pretty basic: &#8220;So I&#8217;ll do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to tell a lie</title>
		<link>http://controlfreak.net/2007/09/09/how-to-tell-a-lie/</link>
		<comments>http://controlfreak.net/2007/09/09/how-to-tell-a-lie/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Sep 2007 21:00:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jay</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://controlfreak.net/2007/09/09/how-to-tell-a-lie/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Telling a bare faced lie can be fraught with difficulties. The most awkward one is making sure that you are not found out, which of course means that you can&#8217;t give anything anyway. The best bet to avoid giving anything away is to lie in such a way that it sounds and looks just the [...]]]></description>
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