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	<description>Leader&#039;s Beacon is an online blog for leadership topics from employee engagement to delegation to teambuilding.</description>
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		<title>I Haven’t Blogged About Dan Pink Lately</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Apr 2010 05:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Autonomy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those who haven’t been keeping up on recent business and management books, Daniel Pink came out with an absolutely great book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. I mentioned it briefly in a blog post last Fall before it came out. Then, in February, I wrote a book review of it. Now, here’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>True Leaders Leave a Huge Hole</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 05:55:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was struck by a local news item in The Washington Post on Brian Betts, a model middle school principal, who was found gunned down in his home. While the story obviously includes the murder aspect, I was touched by the leadership angle. Rising to a challenge: Here was a white man who took over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What to Do When Your Team Gets “Stuck”: 7 Ways to Get It Moving Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:21:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Teambuilding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[agreement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[commitment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[getting unstuck]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Team Progress]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadersbeacon.com/?p=128</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There is no question about it. A team can be a powerful vehicle for accomplishing a major project, guiding a unit to superior performance, or bringing together diverse perspectives to solve a pressing problem. Have you ever been a member of a smooth functioning, high performing team? Those of you who have, no doubt, harbor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Down the Slope and Up Again: Seven Strategies to Lead Your Team through the Recession</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Jan 2010 05:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Business Leader]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Effective Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Employment Assistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Layoff]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organization Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pessimism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productivity Declines]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadersbeacon.com/?p=79</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wherever you look, news about the economy is bad. Layoffs abound. Pfizer, a pharmaceutical giant, recently announced 8,000 job cuts. Home Depot, the biggest home improvement retailer in the U.S., said it will eliminate 7,000 jobs. Even the State of California is letting 20,000 go. The economy lost 2.6 million jobs last year, the most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Delegation: The Forgotten Management Tool</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jan 2010 05:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Delegation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Job Objectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Tool]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Satisfaction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self Confidence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Solving Problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time Management Techniques]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadersbeacon.com/?p=73</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I never get to the truly managerial parts of my own job.&#8221; &#8220;I&#8217;m staying too late at night and working too many weekends.&#8221; &#8220;________is really ready to advance but I have no job to promote him/her to right now.&#8221; &#8220;If I don&#8217;t give my best people some new challenges soon, I may lose them.&#8221; Sound [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Way: Beyond Technology to Leverage Your Investment in Your People</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Dec 2009 05:02:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Customer Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decisions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Driven Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enterprise]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[External Focus]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Element]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Information Management Systems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Investment Technology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Powers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Organization]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Rate Of Return]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Remarkable Impact]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Return Investment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technology Tools]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Our people are the key to our success?&#8221; How so very often we have heard executives mouth these words. But then, how very often we have also heard their people mutter words such as, &#8220;Oh yeah, well, if we really are the key, how come they don&#8217;t&#8230; &#8221; Of course, it is true. In this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Raise Your Gaze: Staying Energized in the Daily Grind</title>
		<link>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/raise-your-gaze-staying-energized-in-the-daily-grind/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/raise-your-gaze-staying-energized-in-the-daily-grind/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 05:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Finance Department]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Optimal Performance]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadersbeacon.com/?p=67</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It is mid afternoon. You are sitting at your desk trying to pull together this important proposal for your boss. It is due the day after tomorrow. As you wrestle with how to incorporate a complex spreadsheet from the finance department, you wonder when your quality analyst will bring in those last two key pieces [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dealing with resistance: the 4 + 2 method</title>
		<link>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/dealing-with-resistance-the-4-2-method/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/dealing-with-resistance-the-4-2-method/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:58:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitude]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Boss]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cooperation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Dealing With Resistance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gestalt Psychology]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Guilt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.leadersbeacon.com/?p=64</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve all lived this before. Sally, the manager, asks her employee Gary to prepare a market analysis report for next week. Gary moans and says he doesn&#8217;t think he can do it by then . . . too much work and, besides, why not give it to Sherry who has a marketing background. The manager [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Practice of Adaptive Leadership: Tools and Tactics for Changing Your Organization and the World</title>
		<link>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/the-practice-of-adaptive-leadership-tools-and-tactics-for-changing-your-organization-and-the-world/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/the-practice-of-adaptive-leadership-tools-and-tactics-for-changing-your-organization-and-the-world/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 07:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision Authority]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Harvard Business Press]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Elements]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Tools]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Role Identity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stakeholders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Technical Challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teleworking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Virtual Company]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Ronald Heifetz, Alexander Grashow, &#38; Marty Linsky Harvard Business Press, 2009 ISBN #978-1-4421-0576-4 Reviewed by Ian Cook Dealing with change and problem solving–these tasks are at the core of what leader/managers do. But there are two distinctly different types of challenges that precipitate change and bring on problems for managers. The authors of this [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Choice &amp; Accountability: The Bedrock Of Superior Performance</title>
		<link>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/choice-accountability-the-bedrock-of-superior-performance/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadersbeacon.com/choice-accountability-the-bedrock-of-superior-performance/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 04:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>iancook</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Performance Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Confrontations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Courageous People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energy Shifts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Human Virtue]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance Expectations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Productive Work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Resentment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, you want to be a success? And you want those who work for you to succeed? Then you might as well know the (bad ?) news. Successful, effective people are courageous people! Aristotle said courage is the primary human virtue. And the ultimate courage is to accept what philosopher Peter Koestenbaum calls life&#8217;s &#8220;dirty [...]]]></description>
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