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	<title>Path Forward</title>
	<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com</link>
	<description>Leadership development services</description>
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		<title>Telling Your Truth – Effectively</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We don’t tell the truth anywhere near enough in our culture.  (That was the gist of my last post.)  And yet sometimes, telling the truth does more harm than good. 
If you’re speaking your truth, how do you know if you’re doing harm?  Three questions to ask yourself:

What’s your underlying intention:  is it ultimately to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/08/telling-your-truth-effectively/</link>
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		<title>Brain Rules and Stress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been reading a book called Brain Rules by John Medina, and I heartily recommend it to … well, everyone.
This book helps you understand what makes the small gloppy blob in your head do its miraculous work.  It also helps you understand how we can make it work even better.
One of the “brain rules” is: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/08/brain-rules-and-stress/</link>
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		<title>Afraid to Tell the Truth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We are afraid to tell each other the truth.
It’s a freaking cultural norm.   And it’s ruining our relationships and our organizations.
A client of mine is under intense and public fire, accused of offenses he did not commit.  There are those in his organization who have the capacity to tell the truth to the accuser about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/08/afraid-to-tell-the-truth/</link>
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		<title>Leadership Smarts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your computer would like you to be more like it. Don’t do it.
You are not a computer. Don’t try to operate like one.  The intelligence that fosters leadership is very, very different from the “intelligence” of your computer.
What constitutes leadership intelligence?

A well-rounded intellect. Reading To Kill a Mockingbird or Moby Dick might help you lead [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/08/leadership-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>First, Prioritize</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Want to be a leader?  Learn to prioritize.
If you’re an expert at prioritizing your time, well, don’t read this — it’s not a priority.  But if you’re not a world-class prioritizer — and you’re not diligently working to get better at it — think again.  You’re stunting your own growth as a leader.
A few insights [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pathforwardleadership.com/2010/08/first-prioritize/</link>
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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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