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	<title>Path Forward</title>
	<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com</link>
	<description>Leadership development services</description>
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		<title>The Leader As Psychologist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“I just want to run a business. Do I have to be a psychologist, too?” 
Yes you do.
How can you expect to run a business effectively without understanding how your most important assets work?  (That’s right — your employees.)
We work with many leaders who wish their employees’ needs, desires, motivations, fears, and learning styles would [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/07/the-leader-as-psychologist/</link>
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		<title>Emotions in the Workplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your employees should leave their emotions at home, right?
Wrong.
Sure, emotions can be messy, intrusive, and challenging to deal with.  Few of us enjoy encountering a colleague in tears, or in rage, or in stone-faced depression.  And no question, emotions can hinder our effectiveness at work.
But would you like them to bring their enthusiasm to work?  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/07/emotions-in-the-workplace/</link>
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		<title>Sink or Swim Often Means Sink</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember The Peter Principle?
If you’re at least as old as I am, you’ll probably recall the splash it made when it hit #1, 40 years ago.  The book became a cultural phenomenon.  Its message, simply, was that “employees tend to rise to their level of incompetence.”  And then stay there.
It makes sense.  If you’re good, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/07/successful-promotions/</link>
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		<title>Growing At Your Edges</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re perfect, disregard this.
All leaders have “growing edges.”  That’s a euphemism for personal challenges.  Which in turn is a euphemism for shortcomings, deficiencies, weaknesses, failings, limitations, flaws, or Achilles’ heels.
What are you doing about yours?
There is at least one area of leadership (and possibly as  many as the synonyms above), in which you are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/07/1069/</link>
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		<title>If You Believe In It, Sell It</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most leaders don’t get the importance of effective salesmanship — inside their organization.
Recently, we’ve been working with a group of managers at one of Seattle’s largest companies.  The focus:  driving change initiatives.
What we’re finding is most of them aren’t effectively selling their projects to their troops. They want to see their projects come to fruition, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/06/selling-your-project/</link>
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		<title>Time to retire the carrot and stick</title>
		<description><![CDATA[School teachers and administrators are cheating to gin up the scores of their students on standardized tests.  So reported the New York Times last week.
The reaction to this story is predictable:
Fire the bastards!
Another example of the lack of accountability in our public schools!
Our children are being taught by cheaters! 
Motivation in public education has always [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/06/motivation-in-education/</link>
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		<title>Sustaining the Motivation to Excel</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I got pushback yesterday on a presentation I did on motivation.  I was challenging sacred cows, and a number of the business people present didn’t like it.
My central message:  if you want long-term quality, creativity, team-playing, and initiative in the workplace, “do-this-and-you’ll-get-that” incentives don’t work. What do they work for?

performance of routine tasks: if you’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/06/sustaining-the-motivation-to-excel/</link>
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		<title>Breaking Down Walls</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It amazes me how often leaders fail to act on an important issue if it requires them to engage those outside their immediate area of responsibility.
You’ve probably heard the term “siloed.”  It describes organizations that have limited flow across departmental boundaries. These organizations often display compartmentalized excellence that nonetheless adds up to less than the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/06/breaking-down-walls/</link>
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		<title>Time to Get Tough?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a group-coaching session yesterday with senior managers at a Fortune 500 company, the title question above came up:  When is the right time to get tough, or strict, with my employees?
The scenario:  The employees in question were balking at a productivity goal &#8212; one that matched the department’s pre-recession output.  Why balking?  Because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/05/time-to-get-tough/</link>
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		<title>The Power of Listening</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’ve ever attended a management training, you’ve been told you have to listen well if you want to manage well.  Still, it’s one of the hardest things for leaders to do.  After all, our leadership culture tends to define success in terms of action.
So, really, how important is good listening for leadership? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/05/the-power-of-listening/</link>
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