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		<title>Leadership Follies: Yes You Are Unique, But Not That Different</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/11/16/lf-not-that-different/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:30:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anil Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best practices and methodologies within organizations are useful and effective. It is not realistic to think that everything must be created or invented in an organization. But, it&#8217;s important to leverage strengths and weaknesses of the organization to select and implement the practices that will have the greatest positive impact. Making sure to involve key [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=21158&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Telltale Traits of A Perfectionist</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 04:03:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>LaRae Quy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Perfectionists have a difficult time giving themselves permission to be wrong. They look around and see everything that isn’t done right—and they resent it. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19689&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership: How to Make an Elephant Fly</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/09/06/make-an-elephant-fly/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 14:43:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I seen a peanut stand, heard a rubber band, I seen a needle that winked its eye. But I be done seen ‘bout ev’rything When I see an elephant fly.&#8221;                                                   [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19716&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Articles of Faith: Tools of the Trade</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/09/03/aof-tools-of-the-trade/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Sep 2011 16:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chadwick Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[—————————————————————————– This post is part of our Sunday Series titled “Articles of Faith.” We investigate leadership lessons from the Bible. See the whole series here. Published only on Sundays. —————————————————————————– Have you ever felt that you were overwhelmed with a task?  Did you feel that you were not properly prepared?  Did you look up to that [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19550&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Leadership, Excellence, and Tough Love</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/08/25/leadership-excellence-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 04:03:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Frank Bucaro</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strong leadership demands excellence and tough love. The balance between these attributes is oftentimes difficult to juggle. It is sometimes even more difficult to know in which direction one should go during times of stress or problems. So how should a leader think about leading others with excellence and tough love? Ask Yourself Some Questions [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19010&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Take Me To Your Leader</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/07/05/take-me-to-your-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:15:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Okay. How many of you just read the title of this blogacle sounding like an alien or a robot?  C’mon, I know you did. That “joke” has been around for so long, it’s just become a habit.  Kind of like our own greetings to one another. “Good morning.”  “Morning.”  “Good afternoon.”  “How ya doin?”  We [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=18616&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Office &#8211; Part 1 Denial</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/06/27/on-leadership-and-denial-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Jun 2011 05:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Doug Ramsey</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was reading yet another news story of how radically the world had changed in past few years and how it may be a long time before things get much better. Another story was about how unhappy most employees are but how they cannot leave their current jobs because of the fear generated by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=18479&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Go Back, To Go Forward</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/05/31/go-back-to-go-forward/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 May 2011 04:03:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Take a step back to go forward? Are you nuts?” Well . . . that’s beside the point. But I am serious. It&#8217;s a Directional Thing Sometimes you have to go backward to go forward. And good leaders realize this. How many times have you been driving your car someplace and suddenly realized that you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=18045&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:03:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nerves! Those blankity-blank-blank nerves! Yes, you heard me.  Nerves.  Those darn nerves!  Always around, never a dull moment: “nerves” have gotten the best of us and promoted the worst of us.  Leadership isn’t leadership without nerves, is it. I have a close relationship with nerves.  My nerves, other people’s nerves, high nerves, low nerves… the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=17475&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Psst &#8211; You Want to Know a Secret?</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/04/04/psst-you-want-to-know-a-secret/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Apr 2011 04:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anybody looking? Can anyone hear us? Good, then let me tell you a secret. Here it is . . . There Are No Secrets! That’s right. There are NO secrets to good leadership. There have been thousands of books written on “the secret”. But if it were such a secret, wouldn’t you think that there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=16897&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Exceptional Strength of Followership</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/03/28/strength-of-followership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This month marks a remarkable time in all of our lives. It doesn&#8217;t matter where you live, how you were raised, or which side of any current news-story you are on, these are remarkable times! It seems that we have opened this decade with a torrent of “worst-that-could-happen” news.  In fact, the USA political, social, and economic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=16876&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Katie Couric&#8217;s Evolution to Leadership</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/02/07/katie-courics-evolution-to-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While tiptoeing through the tulips of online nice-to-knows, I stumbled upon a time capsule of sorts. Er, wait a second.  That really doesn’t do it justice.  Let me try this again. While in search of what seems a nearly impossible task of satisfying my curious and insatiable mind for learning something new (that’s better), I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=15993&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I Believe . . . I&#8217;m a Leader</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/01/27/i-believe-im-a-leader/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you’re a leader&#8230; You’ve reached that impossible pinnacle for most people.  You’ve reached a level that most people just dream about or envy.  But you know, it’s not meant for everyone. But for those who want it and make it work, it can be very rewarding. Dream On One of the problems for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=15630&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership: A Curtsy, A Bow, or A Handshake?</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/01/03/a-curtsy-a-bow-or-a-handshake/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jan 2011 05:03:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year everyone! And a special Happy New Year to our USA southerly continental sister’s country of Brazil for ushering the new year with the inauguration of its first female President, Dilma Rousseff.  Folks, this is leadership news that is more noteworthy than Obama assuming office, and let me tell you why. Anyone care to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=15271&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership: The Being, Behind The Doing</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/12/28/the-being-behind-the-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 05:03:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Marie Forsman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you meet someone new, you often talk about what you do. This also happens when you talk with family or friends and people you know well; you talk about what you do, not who you are. You talk about what you&#8217;ve done since the last time you spoke You talk about what you&#8217;re doing now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=14870&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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