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		<title>On Leadership and Learning Executive Presence</title>
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		<dc:creator>Tom Schulte</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a professional speaker and facilitator of leadership development workshops, I often get the chance to be in front of leaders to help them fine-tune their personal leadership effectiveness in my workshops called &#8220;Leadership PowerLabs.&#8221;   My goal is to make leaders more powerful in their day-to-day interactions. I get to see how a lot [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19738&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Friendship a Leadership Quality?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Aug 2011 04:03:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jim Hopkins</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you had asked me ten years ago if “friendship” is a leadership quality, I doubt I would have given it more than a second before declaring this: &#8220;No!&#8221; Friendship is not and should not be part of leadership! I would have added &#8220;In fact, being friends with people you work with can often cause [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=19073&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>Handling Conflict at Work: The Leader’s Role</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aryanne Oade</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you having people problems at work? So how does this make you feel? How many of you look forward to participating actively in a conflict at work, confident that the underlying issues will be resolved and progress made? How many of you keenly anticipate situations of conflict and disagreement among the people you lead, confident that positive outcomes will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=18372&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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>John Wooden’s Winning Principles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Apr 2011 04:03:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristi Royse</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have always been a BIG follower of John Wooden! I have read every book on him and have worked to apply his principles to my business, my relationships, and my life. A Standard of Excellence I recently came across this INCREDIBLE strategy of standards of excellence and code of conduct to find happiness. I now [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=16884&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>10 Ways to Encourage Innovation</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/01/25/10-ways-encourage-innovation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 05:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Edmondson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I firmly believe it is a mistake of leaders to feel they can force innovation or even create innovative people. Innovation, in its purest form, means change. And while change can be forced upon people, the best changes, the kind that make an organization excellent, come from the heart of a person. Great innovation comes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=14921&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Future Leaders: Leading Our Most Precious</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/01/24/leading-our-most-precious/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:03:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joe Colavito</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[THREE STORIES, ONE POINT. If we want our students to be equipped to lead in the future, we need to provide them with teachers and counselors who are equipped to lead them today. Story #1 :: A Bad Apple “Sit down! Pay attention!” commanded one of my 8th-grade daughter Courtney&#8217;s teachers on the first day of the new [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=14255&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;I&#8217;m Not a Businessman; I&#8217;m a Business, Man!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/01/13/i-am-a-business-man/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Jan 2011 05:03:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Baerbel Bohr</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business leader Jay-Z continues his way from success to significance When I finished reading Jay-Z’s recent book Decoded, one of the verses of Coolio’s classic &#8220;Gangsta’s Paradise&#8221; popped into my mind: &#8220;I am an educated fool with money on my mind.&#8220; Purposeful Leadership This is exactly the self-image that Shawn Corey Carter aka Jay-Z creates [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=15404&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Leadership Lessons from Rudolph</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/12/20/6-lessons-from-rudolph/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2010 05:03:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eleanor Biddulph</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Tis the season! One annual tradition in my house is gathering to watch Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer. This year, I watched it through the lens of leadership. Imagine Burl Ives, as the voice of Sam the Snowman, applying the lessons of Rudolph to the workplace&#8230; 6 Lessons in Leadership Scenario 1 Rudolph first apppears as the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=15077&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Pressure Points</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/12/09/leadership-pressure-points/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 05:03:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anastasia Montejano</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever gotten to the point of frustration that you just wanted to explode? If you lead people, then I think that you can probably relate. This is where you find yourself in a situation of mounting anger and annoyance that it makes you just want to throw in the towel? This is where [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=14884&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Paycheck Leadership: A Heart Attack</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/12/06/paycheck-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:03:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[[A lonely lit room displays a silent stage] [The BOOM! of a spot light rings out; the light shines upon the stage, a single podium, and a microphone.] [Christa walks out onto the stage, just the small clicks of her shoes can be heard; she walks up to the podium] “A-hem” (Christa taps on the microphone, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&amp;blog=4217272&amp;post=14891&amp;subd=linked2leadership&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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