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		<title>3 Questions, 8 Characteristics, and 4 Signs for the New Year</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 21:12:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HBR Blogs: Three Questions Executives Should Ask for the New Year I love the Harvard Business Review blogs. It&#8217;s where all the great research they do gets turned into practical guidance that can make a real difference! Melissa Raffoni wrote a terrific article, brief enough to be read quickly, but meaty enough to be invaluable long [...]]]></description>
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		<title>10 Questions You Should Never Stop Asking</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:05:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The 10 Questions You Should Never Stop Asking Here is an excellent overview in Forbes for those looking for &#8220;the easy answers to business success.&#8221; Not that implementing the advice is easy! But if you can address all these questions, you will improve the success of your organization. More importantly, if you&#8217;re not regularly exploring [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Constitutes a Leader?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Friday, I attended an excellent seminar on leadership offered by Jenny Whitener, Chief Executive of Bridge Consulting International and alumna of Cap Gemini Ernst &#38; Young. Among the many fascinating learnings she shared was a simple and elegant list of what &#8220;followers most admire in their leaders.&#8221; According to Kouzes and Posner in their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think and Grow Rich</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/10/think-and-grow-rich/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:51:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard of Napoleon Hill?  He was an author and lecturer in the early part of the 20th century, influenced by such business leaders as Andrew Carnegie. He wrote about his philosophy of achievement in a book called &#8220;Think and Grow Rich,&#8221; in 1937. Remarkably &#8211; or perhaps not &#8211; there are lessons in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneurial Gut</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/the-entrepreneurial-gut/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:58:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When It Feels Wrong To Be Right &#8211; Trust Your Gut &#8211; Entrepreneur.com Interesting article opens with: &#8220;&#8216;I trust my gut.&#8217; That sounds so alpha-male cool, I know. It&#8217;s also a very dumb approach to running the major aspects of your business.&#8221; Perhaps not only &#8220;alpha-male cool&#8221; &#8211; women call it intuition, men call it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Retain Good Employees During a Downturn</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/07/07/how-to-retain-good-employees-during-a-downturn/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:17:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It may be a fact of life for your business. To keep your doors open, you may have had to furlough or even lay off some employees. No one likes to do that. Even when you jettison marginal performers, no one enjoys the process, least of all the business owner. If it DOES happen to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Advice for Any CEO/Business Head?</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/03/25/advice-for-any-ceobusiness-head/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 23:06:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Plotting a Smooth Course When You Take the Helm &#8211; WSJ.com One of our clients is adding a COO to his firm, someone to focus on running the business while he concentrates on being the &#8220;visionary&#8221; and the face of the firm. So this Wall Street Journal article with tips for incoming CEOs to smooth [...]]]></description>
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