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		<title>Napoleon&#8217;s Glance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Strategically it sometimes pays to step back from daily routine and read or experience something different&#8230; but not necessarily too different &#8211; the busman&#8217;s holiday they call it &#8211; as when you work for a charity, gaining pleasure and learning from doing more of what you do at work. Reading for pleasure, I stumbled on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Introversion Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Just when you think you&#8217;ll have time to write, life intervenes it seems. In the next while I&#8217;ll concentrate on interesting tidbits. In the online HR MBA class I assist with this article justifying introverts in business got some good discussion and seemed to reassure people they had a chance to get ahead.
It correctly notes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bad times a good teacher?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People continue to be fascinated by how anyone can manage in the economic downturn. I used to see this as &#8216;topic of the day&#8217; &#8211; faddish and something we all would work through as &#8216;normal business.&#8217; Not one, but two former bosses used to say, &#8216;in business there&#8217;s no such thing as bad news or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mintzberg&#8217;s New Book &#8220;Managing&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow. This is the next &#8220;Good to Great&#8221; &#8211; and only 7 years after that, not 20 as Collins&#8217; book was after &#8220;In Search of Excellence.&#8221; Mintzberg once and for all establishes that management and leadership are immensely complex and have to be learned in the heat of practicing them, not from books or traditional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Brutal Honesty Help?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It may not be wise to always be brutally honest with others. In most cases it helps to try to find the silver lining as well as what needs to change, but I believe it is best to be completely clear when dealing with problems you&#8217;re struggling with if you can face doing it yourself.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Fast Can a Behemoth Change Culture?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Giant GM is struggling to change, that much is certain. But recent reports confuse the reader about what&#8217;s really going on. Take Workforce Week for October 7 and October 19. In various ways, from the headlines to content, both articles suggest that new CEO (Fritz Henderson), named March 30 to replace the former old-style executive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Isolation from People Matters</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Auto Industry task force leader Steven Rattner&#8217;s comments about why Obama had to remove Rick Wagoner as head of GM have been widely reported. While it might seem more important that $100 million deals were approved based on PowerPoint slides instead of solid research, it&#8217;s interesting that another key example was how badly they were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blogging and more blogging</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Looks like I will be doing more blogging for my own site as several organizations I work with are pressing for more blog postings from all their contributors and it seems like once you&#8217;re in the process, you just naturally see more things to comment on. Hopefully the quality doesn&#8217;t go down with volume. 
Several [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Missing the point makes the point</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My professional association&#8217;s magazine published a very small note about a new study done at University of Chicago: Which CEO Characteristics and Abilities Matter? They express surprise (shock might be a better word) that &#8220;warm, flexible and team-oriented people are less likely to thrive [sic - they really mean 'get results'] than organized, structured, attention-to-detail [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two books worth reading</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I finally broke down and made the effort to read both of Obama&#8217;s books. He&#8217;s a truly remarkable writer for a start. and they certainly appear to show his own hand despite the undoubtedly large number of &#8216;fact checkers&#8217; and &#8216;assistant editors&#8217; he may have had specifically with the second one. Whatever your political beliefs [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Makes Bad Leaders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Or are leaders bad all on their own? Among recent blog posts one asked whether employees are setting bosses up for failure by expecting perfection on every issue. Can bosses actually succeed? Why does it seem so many are vilified? What can be done about it? It does sometimes seem as if bosses can never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happiness is Multi-faceted</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This may be more than one post&#8217;s worth of ideas, but researching following the World Congress of Positive Psychology (mentioned in an earlier post) led to some great resources. 
Perhaps the most important concept is that happiness isn&#8217;t a single thing. When thought of as if it were you tend to think of leisure and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Happier Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As you may have noticed, I took considerable time off posting to contemplate a number of things. 
First my interest in studying happiness led me to attend the First World Congress of the International Positive Psychology Association based around the first MA course set up Marty Seligman of Penn State, whose book, Learned Optimism, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.balance-and-results.com/a-happier-life.html</link>
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		<title>Traits for Success at Pretty Much Anything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Of the &#8220;Big Five&#8221; personality traits, the two David Brooks (my last post) culled from research that are more common among big company CEOs should be no surprise. For workers in general the most important has always been known &#8211; Conscientiousness. That is about following through, doing what you said you would, delivering the result. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Case in Point: How We Understand Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend forwarded a really interesting New York Times Op Ed link (In Praise of Dullness) with the comment the author may or may not be making similar points to my last post. In fact, it could be taken either way because the author talks about several opposing things as if they were somehow one. [...]]]></description>
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