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		<title>The Accountability of Diversity</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2012/diversity-accountability</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 23:46:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Diversity is not just about differences. It is also about similarities—the things that people have in common. Leveraging similarities can be an asset in solving business issues and is often underutilized or abused with little in-between. Assuming that diversity means differences and similarities let me share with you where many companies go wrong with diversity. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judged Unfairly: It’s a Reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 22:24:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Oh that happens daily!” Karen Say says laughing. Somehow along the way, our society has decided that certain types of people or certain genders know or do certain things. That is the reality women in construction have to face daily, the judgment that just because they are a woman, they couldn’t possibly know anything about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The ROI of Diversity</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2012/diversity-roi</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 23:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=757</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the value of diversity in your organization? How much does that project mean to you and your company? Seriously, assign a number to it. Would you be surprised to learn that on average, when diversity is implemented as a process of change it has a one to three hundred percent ROI! (Honest it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Pay Determine Worth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 21:52:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=805</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that equal pay does not consistently exist in our country. To this day, women still earn less than an equal male counterpart regardless of the industry! On average women earn 77 percent of a man’s pay, according to Census statistics released in September 2011. To put this in perspective, fifty years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should I Wear Today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=766</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This has become a “chick” question. The female stereotype is that we obsess over this question every day and every time we need to change our outfit. But in reality, it is a question that we all ask ourselves every time we get ready to leave the house. Men tend to ask it subconsciously; women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Attitude of Diversity</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2012/the-attitude-of-diversity</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:59:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=761</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three key elements in understanding how attitude affects your company are: Diversity is about things that you and your employees cannot leave at home: race, religion, sexual orientation, age, and looks. These traits affect the experiences people have in life. Differences between people can create barriers that affect a business’s bottom-line. When we are aware [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Communicating With Clients: What Works?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=731</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Communication is key to every relationship . . . open communication that is. As technologies change so do the ways, styles and expectations of communication. This is particularly true with clients. As a business you can make executive decisions about how your employees are to communicate with each other, but with clients . . . [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Words for Marketing</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2012/rightmarketingwords</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:56:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/?p=727</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“A culture of trust that encourages empowerment and innovation, we provide people with the freedom, flexibility and opportunity to do great things for our company, employees and customers.” This quote and others similar always accompany a business receiving an award for best work place. The other time you hear this or some version of it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Klein: Economic Update and Where His Company is Going</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 23:48:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Steve Klein is a very good friend of mine and he is one of the three business owners that wrote the forward to my book, Contractors: Doing it Right Not Just Getting it Done. In our most recent check-in to touch base with each other he shared what is going on in his local economy [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Realized that You’re a B2Comm Biz, Now What?</title>
		<link>http://contractorsdoingitright.meldepaoli.com/2011/b2comm-commercial-construction</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Oct 2011 21:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mel DePaoli</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As you saw in another post I wrote, B2Comm stands for Business to Community. B2Comm businesses leverage and utilize both B2B and B2C businesses, but they target an entire community instead of only individuals or other businesses. Also, in that post I mentioned that commercial contractors are an example of B2Comm companies, which surprised many [...]]]></description>
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