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		<title>The Checklist Checklist</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:03:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What Sort of Checklist Should You Be Using? &#8211; Justin Fox &#8211; Harvard Business Review I worked with surgeons for more than 20 years as their publishing partner, and remember well hearing about Atul Gawande&#8217;s early research transferring the pilot checklist concept to surgical practice. (It was around the time that news stories were hitting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>3 Questions, 8 Characteristics, and 4 Signs for the New Year</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2010/01/05/3-questions-8-characteristics-and-4-signs-for-the-new-year/</link>
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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 Women Business Owners Think&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/11/14/what-women-business-owners-think/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:58:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; about Strategic Planning! Check out this link!]]></description>
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		<title>Chris Brogan Does Goals</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/28/chris-brogan-does-goals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:08:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Marketing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you know Chris Brogan? He&#8217;s one of the current gurus of social media, and has some very entertaining and interesting observations about marketing. If you&#8217;re looking for practical marketing tips to permit you some online success, you might try subscribing to his e-newsletter here. His latest newsletter includes a story that resonates with me, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Constitutes a Leader?</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/18/what-constitutes-a-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:47:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change Management]]></category>
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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>Top 5 Reasons for Business Planning</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/10/10/top-5-reasons-for-business-planning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Operations Management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some recent articles have included some extraordinary &#8211; yet not surprising &#8211; statistics: companies with just the strategic section of a business plan have 50% more profits and revenue than non-planning businesses. Another survey found business planning companies have 63% higher revenue growth and 100% more profit. If that isn&#8217;t enough reason, here are a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Need a Business Plan</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/29/why-you-need-a-business-plan-wsj-com/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:18:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why You Need a Business Plan &#8211; WSJ.com What a great article on Planning for Business in the Wall Street Journal! And no, I didn&#8217;t commission it. Planning &#8211; note the active voice &#8211; is at the heart of my practice and my life. Is it because my dad had me sitting at the kitchen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fix a Sales Problem</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/how-to-fix-a-sales-problem-5-second-mba-gruzzles-fast-company/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/how-to-fix-a-sales-problem-5-second-mba-gruzzles-fast-company/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 17:09:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nancy Chorpenning</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to Fix a Sales Problem [5 Second MBA] &#124; Gruzzles &#124; Fast Company Have you seen this 5-Second MBA feature in Fast Company? This is a WONDERFUL image, and oh so true. Simple but not easy to execute.]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneurial Gut</title>
		<link>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/the-entrepreneurial-gut/</link>
		<comments>http://smallbusinesscentralblog.com/2009/09/27/the-entrepreneurial-gut/#comments</comments>
		<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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