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	<title>Enterprise Architecture in Higher Education &#187; personal</title>
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	<description>a practical approach by Leo de Sousa</description>
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		<title>Full Disclosure, A Favourited Tweet Does Not Mean I Read It &#8230; Yet</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:11:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you know, I am a huge fan of Twitter. Twitter provides the medium for my tailored news source (I find out about world events on Twitter faster than any of the regular news outlets), my 24&#215;7 global support base (see my post The Evolution of My Global Network) and my notetaker (this attempt <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2012/01/full-disclosure-a-favourited-tweet-does-not-mean-i-read-it-yet/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Flexible Leadership – Self Knowledge, Guiding Principles and Flexible Approaches</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:32:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders, who are self-aware, create personal guiding principles and are flexible in their leadership approaches, will have success navigating any situation.   There are a set of leadership traits, behaviors and styles that support flexible leadership.  Leaders need to develop self-awareness.  Understanding what their strengths and weaknesses are and how they react to different situations is <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/10/flexible-leadership-%e2%80%93-self-knowledge-guiding-principles-and-flexible-approaches/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Email Charter &#8211; signup today!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Aug 2011 06:46:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw a tweet from Bill Owen containing a link to The Email Charter.  The charter has 10 rules to &#8220;reverse the email spiral&#8221;.  This is really great stuff and we need to get the word out.   I wrote a post titled Focus on Your Commitments &#8211; A New Way to Work which explains a way <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/08/the-email-charter-signup-today/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Focus on Your Commitments &#8211; A New Way to Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jul 2011 02:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you start the day opening your email and looking at the hundreds or thousands of messages in your Inbox?  How does that make you feel? Overwhelmed, stressed and feeling like you are always behind on your commitments? Do you have days where you know you worked very hard but somehow have nothing to show <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/07/focus-on-your-commitments-a-new-way-to-work/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Time &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 05:13:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I found two great articles in my Twitter feed this week that really struck home for me. Over the past decade, I have prided myself on how busy I am multi-tasking and having a calendar booked solid. My hard work has paid off as I successfully progressed in my career, learned many new things and <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/05/finding-time/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Building Intrinsic Motivation Using Personal Learning Plans for High Technology Workers</title>
		<link>http://leodesousa.ca/2011/04/building-intrinsic-motivation-using-personal-learning-plans-for-high-technology-workers/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=building-intrinsic-motivation-using-personal-learning-plans-for-high-technology-workers</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Apr 2011 01:54:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a paper I wrote for a course I took as part of my Masters of Science program at Syracuse University.  I believe that the only way we can succeed as leaders is to empower and motivate the people we work with.  This paper describes a process that I use with my team &#8230; <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/04/building-intrinsic-motivation-using-personal-learning-plans-for-high-technology-workers/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Motivation at a Glance &#8211; Resource Site</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 06:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the fall, I took the Syracuse University iSchool course IST 617 &#8211; Motivational Aspects of Information Use taught by Dr Ruth Small.  Our main project was to research and write a description of a motivational theory. I selected Canadian Victor Vroom&#8217;s Expectancy Theory.  My assignment has now been posted to the Motivation at a <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2011/02/motivation-at-a-glance-resource-site/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Time Flies When You are Having Fun</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the past month, I hit a couple of career milestones.  On August 31, 2010, I completed my 18th year of service at British Columbia Institute of Technology. On Sept 4, 2010, I completed 3 years as the Manager, Business Application Services and Enterprise Architecture in the Information Technology Services department at BCIT.  I also <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/09/time-flies-when-you-are-having-fun-2/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>An Evolution for My Eyes Triggers Some Thoughts</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:52:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday February 19, 2010, I underwent laser eye surgery (Intralase Sub-Bowman&#8217;s Keratomileusis) to correct my short sightedness. I have worn glasses since I was 6 years old and contact lenses since I was 16. Over the past 15 years, I developed an allergic reaction to the protein buildup on the contact lenses and had <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/02/an-evolution-for-my-eyes-triggers-some-thoughts/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Mentorship &#8230; we need to do more of this</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leo de Sousa</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was fortunate to be asked to participate as a mentor to a Computer Systems student in our Bachelor of Technology program this fall. This is a real honour and something that I value having the opportunity to do. I graduated from BCIT in 1987 and the skills taught me by my instructors and my <a href='http://leodesousa.ca/2010/02/mentorship-we-need-to-do-more-of-this/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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