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		<title>Mr. Dudley, This is the Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Robert Dudley has a once-in-a-career chance to be a hero.  And I’m here to help him get there.
As the new CEO of BP, Mr. Dudley must take the reins of what to date has been not only an ecological and economic disaster, but as important to his company’s shareholders, a near-complete collapse [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/07/27/mr-dudley-this-is-the-moment/</link>
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		<title>Oh, You Know What I Mean</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Across the shiny conference table with the lovely floral arrangement tastefully set to one side, sat my boss’ boss, who used to be my direct boss. 
This colorful, polished, highly intelligent woman had brought the organization’s Corporate Communications group into crack fighting shape through her insight, her unerring eye for talent, and her [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/07/23/oh-you-know-what-i-mean/</link>
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		<title>Apple: What, Me Worry?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Playing word association, I think it’s fair to assume that one would be shocked if, in response to the term “Apple,” the response came back, “Alfred E. Newman.”
You know, the grinning, gap-toothed goober from Mad magazine, whose catch phrase is, “What, me worry?”  Yet somehow, almost inexplicably, that’s the stance being taken [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/07/14/apple-what-me-worry/</link>
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		<title>A Fixed Point in Time</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Lorne Michaels, legendary producer of “Saturday Night Live” was once asked at what point does he know a show is ready for broadcast.
His response went something like, “It’s not that we’ve polished every sketch and rehearsed it to perfection.  It’s when the clock says 11:30 p.m. in New York and the network [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/07/12/a-fixed-point-in-time/</link>
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		<title>Paul&#8217;s Lesson to Timothy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Paul was a trip.
He served as one of the higher-ups in the Corporate Communications Department where I worked in the late 1980s, and there were moments when neither I nor my peers in the group could figure out why.
A nice enough gentleman, certainly.  Loved his little car and drove it like an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/06/26/pauls-lesson-to-timothy/</link>
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		<title>Can&#8217;t Anybody Here Play This Game?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
My beloved hometown baseball club, the Pittsburgh Pirates, has not had a winning season in 17 years.  The Buccos are 20 games under .500 right now, so we’re looking at chalking up another losing campaign. 
They have broken my 15-year-old son’s heart his entire life, and have nearly driven me into the once-unthinkable [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/06/19/cant-anybody-here-play-this-game/</link>
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		<title>A Cancer in the Clubhouse</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Sportswriters love to make hay out of “there’s a cancer in the clubhouse” stories.  You know, the ones where, say, the offensive line of a football team starts sniping at the quarterback, or when a wide receiver mouths off against the coaches because he’s not getting the ball enough.
Sometimes those stories reflect [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/06/12/a-cancer-in-the-clubhouse/</link>
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		<title>Nobody Gets to See the Great Oz!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
We were going for our first mortgage many years ago, when our bank called and asked to see yet another set of documents.  I took them to work with me the next day and left the office building mid-morning to walk the three blocks or so to meet with the banker.
At that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/06/07/nobody-can-see-the-great-oz/</link>
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		<title>Tale of Two Blown Calls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
Bad stuff happens.  Some of it’s foreseeable, but most of the lousy breaks come at us unannounced, and before you know it the boat’s been swamped and you’re flailing in the water looking for dry land.
The BP oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico caught the giant corporation off guard, and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/06/04/tale-of-two-blown-calls/</link>
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		<title>Ringo, the Luckiest Man on Earth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Tim Hayes [www.timhayesconsulting.com]
I don’t believe in coincidence.  I think everything happens for a reason, even though we may not realize it as it’s happening.  Instead, I believe in luck – as defined by that first century Roman gadfly Seneca, who said, “Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity.”
Using Seneca’s definition, I would have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://timhayesconsulting.myupsite.com/2010/05/31/ringo-the-luckiest-man-on-earth/</link>
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