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		<title>Leaders: How Do You Look at Seniority?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 20:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy Uskavitch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you heard this statement before? It is: &#8220;I have seniority.&#8221; So what do you mean exactly by &#8220;seniority? And why does this matter? sen·ior·i·ty    [seen-yawr-i-tee, -yor-] noun 1. the state of being senior;  priority of birth; superior age. 2. priority, precedence, or status obtained as the result of a person&#8217;s length of service, as in a profession, trade,company, or union. Barring unionized workforces, I just don’t believe this statement has as much meaning as it used to.  I remember, at the time I was coming into [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=23995&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders: What the Heck is DISC?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:22:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Kehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the first in a series of blogs in which I will explain the most common personality survey on the market today. DISC is the foundation of understanding for virtually every human personality type. Originally published by Dr. William Marston in 1928, the science of DISC is proven and trusted all over the world as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=23235&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Follies &#8211; Lipstick on a Pig Does Not Make it Sexy</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2012/02/14/lipstick-on-a-pig/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anil Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Changes in organizations  and managers are often essential in order for your business to grow and thrive. Let&#8217;s just be very clear about something. If there is a need to make big changes in how an organization is performing and being managed, there are three things that will not make a difference. Giving people new titles. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=22790&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders: What Does the Future Hold for Our Aimless Youth?</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2012/01/03/future-for-our-aimless-youth/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wayne Kehl</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The young people we know as Generation “Y” will soon overtake the rapidly retiring boomer generation in the workforce. When that changing of the guard comes to full fruition, the young people of today will be expected to keep the country running by filling all of the jobs and running all of the organizations that their Boomer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=20201&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Follies: Training Is Not A Cure-All</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/11/23/lf-training-not-cure-all/</link>
		<comments>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/11/23/lf-training-not-cure-all/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Anil Saxena</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For many years consultants and experts have tried to convince leaders that training can impact performance. It seems like the problem is no longer that they don’t believe that training is important, but that now those same leaders thing that training is the “cure-all” or “silver-bullet.&#8221; &#8220;What has made people think that training people will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=21153&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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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&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=21158&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leading Change When it Bursts Through the Doors</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/11/01/change-through-the-doors/</link>
		<comments>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/11/01/change-through-the-doors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 02:11:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delana Mckinsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Whether it is a planned or unplanned change, the disruption through a transition is often underestimated. Are you ready for change? 4 Key Drivers  Common to businesses are four key drivers and the organizational strategy for each one of them. Once a successful link has been made to each area, each team and individual goals are understood alongside execution and fair metrics. Keep in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=18863&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Slacker Talent: Your Recipe for Disaster</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/05/27/slacker-talent-recipe-disaster/</link>
		<comments>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/05/27/slacker-talent-recipe-disaster/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 May 2011 04:03:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Delana Mckinsley</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number of employees that are highly disengaged has doubled since the beginning of 2008. It’s tough enough to make it out of an economic downturn, but companies and leaders now also have to deal with the legacy of the talent they hired during a boom that came before that downturn. Remember the good times? The [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=17346&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Blankity-Blank-Blank Nerves!!</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/04/28/blankity-blank-blank-nerves/</link>
		<comments>http://linked2leadership.com/2011/04/28/blankity-blank-blank-nerves/#comments</comments>
		<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&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=17475&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=15271&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;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&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=15077&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>You Need a Good Bad Idea</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 05:03:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ron Edmondson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love a good bad idea…don’t you? The truth is, in a healthy organization, there really are no bad ideas. At least not in the organizational sense. Here’s what I mean… If you have someone on your team who is coming up with ideas, who is trying to do their best for the organization, who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=14919&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Developing People: A Key to Eliciting Excellence</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/11/15/developing-people/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 05:03:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Beck</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As leaders, it is important to understand yourself well. It is also essential to know who you are as a person and who you are as a leader. Knowing Thy Self It is from this point of knowing your self that you can look beyond the boundaries of your own knowledge, experience, and expertise and see [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=14492&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders: The 24-Hour Rule To Firing People</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/10/28/the-24-hour-rule-to-firing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Oct 2010 04:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christa Dhimo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why?  Why, Why, why, why, why? WHY can’t people get firing someone RIGHT THE FIRST TIME? In the past year, so many high-profile examples have been put before us as &#8220;how to not fire people.&#8221; It&#8217;s embarrassing to witness. Is &#8220;foot-in-mouth&#8221; disease running rampant with those who fire people? Foot-in-Mouth-a-thon Think of these examples: Jay Leno, Conan O’Brien, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=13991&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Unthinkable Lessons For Your Employees</title>
		<link>http://linked2leadership.com/2010/10/15/10-unthinkable-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 04:20:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>George Brymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Top Ten Things You Never Thought You’d Need To Teach Your Employees In a collaborative investigation into workforce readiness, HR executives reported that new workers are entering the labor pool lacking overall professionalism, written communication skills, analytical skills, and business knowledge. While we have the best-educated workforce in our country’s history, many employees have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=linked2leadership.com&#038;blog=4217272&#038;post=13790&#038;subd=linked2leadership&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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