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	<title>Strategy Guru | Peter Laburn International</title>
	
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		<title>Précis of ‘From Values to Action’</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 15:32:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Antoinette Japhet</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Précis of Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr.book “From Values to Action” The four principles fo values-based leadership Jossey Bass: 2011  ISBN 978-0-470-88125-5 Pete Laburn – May 2013  Value based leadership is about aligning your actions as a leader with your core values as a person, enabling you to act in accordance with what you believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy (and Why That Damages Both)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 27 Apr 2013 06:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Ken Favaro]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.petelaburn.com/?p=894</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When leaders substitute visions, missions, purposes, plans, or goals for the real work of strategy, they send their firms adrift. When discussing strategy, executives often invoke some version of a vision, a mission, a purpose, a plan, or a set of goals. I call these “the corporate five” (see exhibit, below). Each is important in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lean Back – 6 Post Macho Management principles</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2013/04/16/lean-back-6-post-macho-management-principles/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 05:36:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Don Peppers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Martha Rodgers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Several years ago the nature of management’s future was driven home to me in a flash, as I shared the stage with my co-author and business partner Dr. Martha Rogers. It was the heyday of the dot-com boom, and we had just done an hour-long joint presentation for an audience of thousands, arguing that online [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Right Ideas in All the Wrong Places</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2013/04/09/the-right-ideas-in-all-the-wrong-places/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 15:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Global Trends]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.petelaburn.com/?p=889</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[What do the Dodge Dart Registry, Facebook, Old Spice deodorant, and Restoration Hardware have to do with the future of banking? All four contain seeds of a strategic innovation urgently needed in that industry: lowering the cost of retail distribution while improving the customer experience for an increasingly complex range of consumers (from old to young, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Fear Stopping You from Starting a Company?</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2013/04/01/is-fear-stopping-you-from-starting-a-company/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 11:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Thinking]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.petelaburn.com/?p=886</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve done what you were supposed to do. You got a great degree. You landed your first job. You&#8217;ve now been promoted a few times. And you&#8217;re now hanging on LinkedIn like every good professional should do. You now are making decent money—more money than you ever thought you&#8217;d make. You&#8217;re married and now have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why I Left Goldman Sachs – A Precis</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:40:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Book Reviews]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Goldman Sachs. Greg Smith]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[‘Why I left Goldman Sachs’ by Greg Smith Précis by Pete Laburn Landing a job at Goldman Sachs Greg Smith is a pharmacist’s son from Johannesburg, South Africa, who won a scholarship to Stanford University in America. He grew up in Edenvale, as the eldest of three siblings in a Jewish middle class family, and earned a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Think by Nancy Kline</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2013 06:34:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Time to Think” By Nancy Kline Précis by Pete Laburn &#160; Everything we do depends on the quality of the thinking we do first. However determined or indefatigable or charismatic a person may be, their every action is only as good as the idea behind it. Therefore, in order to improve action, we have to first improve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy or Execution: Which is more important?</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2012/10/29/strategy-or-execution-which-is-more-important/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2012 05:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Organisations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategic Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Evan Hirsh]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kasturi Rangan]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ken Favaro]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Too often I hear delegates in my seminars talking about this very topic.  Most of the time their conclusions are all the same: execution far outweighs the importance of strategy!  In this HBR piece by Ken Favaro, with Evan Hirsh and Kasturi Rangan, he outlines how both elements are equally important in the pursuit of success. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Letter to the President</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2012/10/25/a-letter-to-the-president/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:13:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[South Africa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Letter to President Jacob Zuma]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Stephen Price]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have seen the below letter, written by Stephen Price to President Jacob Zuma, which was published a few weeks back.  It sums up what is needed from our leaders in power as well as anyone who is in a position of leadership.  In South Africa, as in many other parts of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Humility in Leadership</title>
		<link>http://www.petelaburn.com/index.php/2012/10/24/humility-in-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 05:20:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pete</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[21st Century Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Keith Coats]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leaderhsip]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tomorrow Today]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a well written article by my colleauge Keith Coats on humility in leadership.  Too many leaders today are operating without humility, choosing rather to function with an over-confident and arrogant approach.  The leaders of tomorrow are, as Keith explains, those who practice humility in their approach to leadership&#8230; Think Big, Act Small by Jason [...]]]></description>
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