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		<title>Do you think you can change? It matters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 13:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you think you can change?  If you do, you are more likely to change than if you don&#8217;t.  At first glance, you may not think that this is a game-changer, but it is.  The latest research emphasizes this point emphatically.  Let me say this again.  Leaders who think they can change, grow, and improve, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISC Assessment: Email and the High D</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 02:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[To leverage our understanding of our DISC assessment profile, we can apply our profile features to different aspects of life and leadership.  A podcast by Manager Tools by Michael Auzenne and Mark Horstman provides an extended treatment of how leaders with a High D profile process email.  You are free to listen to this 30-minute podcast [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Things that Successful People Do Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:55:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Harvard Business Review (HBR) last year, the most visited blog post was titled Nine Things that Successful People Do Differently by author Heidi Halvorson.  The posting was so popular, Halvorson turned it into an 36-page ebook.  It is a great read and only $3.39 on Amazon.  Here are the nine topics: Be Specific (When [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Life Balance</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2012 21:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an earlier blog we discussed how our week of 168 hours can be divided into three big time buckets including Sleep, Work, and Life.  If we divide our 168 weekly hours by three, we end up with 56 hours in each bucket: Sleep: 56 hours Work: 56 hours Life: 56 hours How close are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Growing Overseas</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Apr 2012 04:36:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I write this blog from China, I am reminded of how many lessons I have learned through overseas opportunities. Many of these lessons I could not have learned in the US.  HBR&#8217;s John Coleman and Bill George in their blog &#8220;Enhance Your Overseas Experience&#8221; provide some insights on how to best leverage your international [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Leadership is Cross-Cultural</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 04:24:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from Beijing!  I am here this week teaching a short course on Team-building to Chinese leaders.  It doesn&#8217;t take long in China to be impacted by the many differences.  The language is different.  The food is different.  The cultural customs are different.  Compared with the cultural differences I feel with I am in China, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tactical Leadership: Three Big Time Buckets</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2012 22:36:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At GrowingLeadership, we often talk about three levels of leadership: Visionary, Strategic, and Tactical.  While we talk most about the upper two levels of leadership: Visionary and Strategic, we don’t want to neglect the importance of Tactical Leadership.  A simple way of looking at Tactical Leadership is to ask these three important questions: “What are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Good to Great Hedgehog</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jim Collins&#8217; famous book Good to Great has a chapter called the Hedgehog Concept.  At the organizational level, the Hedgehog Concept helps us to focus on those key areas where your organization can deliver the greatest value.  On a related note, I have used this concept in a modified approach for individuals.  Because I have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISC vs MBTI: Which is better?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.growingleadership.org/2012/03/03/disc-vs-mbti-which-is-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Mar 2012 15:26:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of us may have taken the DISC and Myers-Briggs assessment.  Both give you insight as to how you see the world and work in it.  You may ask the question &#8220;Which is better?&#8221;  In fact, the better question might be &#8220;How are they different?&#8221;  In brief, many describe the MBTI as a measure of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DISC Assessment: Why it matters</title>
		<link>http://www.growingleadership.org/2012/02/25/disc-assessment-why-it-matters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Feb 2012 16:45:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have been using assessments for years and typically it brings a high level of interest.  Sometimes, however, a person will ask &#8220;Why are we doing this?&#8221; Here are some thoughts on why effective assessments can be transformational. Self-Awareness Virtually every leadership expert and research study emphasizes that leadership effectiveness begins with self-awareness.  Jeff Baldoni, [...]]]></description>
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