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		<title>The Five Styles of High Performing Companies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[by Paul Childs
Leadership is always dynamic not static.  The ability to adapt not adopt is the key to thriving in a difficult economy.
SUMMARY : There are five key styles or structures that are contained in all high performing companies.  In this economy companies have far less margin for error.  As a result they need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The PIP Process REV</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The key to the Inquiry process is to discover the key issues that reside in the organization and then to recognize the patterns and beliefs that underlie these issues. A powerful tool that can be used to discover the core issues is something called PIP, or Performance Improvement Points. The PIP process is nothing more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/the-pip-process-rev/</link>
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		<title>How Centered Leaders Acheive Extraordinary Results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
Consider that:
About 10% of Americans are taking some form of antidepressant .
In an average year some 30 million Americans drive drunk
14% of the population suffers from chronic insomnia.
15% to 18% of people have had a sexual partner other than their spouse while married.
Only humans could routinely overlook human beings as an important part  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/home-page-article/how-centered-leaders-acheive-extraordinary-results/</link>
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		<title>Leadership Begins at Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Posted on Harvard Business Review: November 23, 2010
One of the greatest gifts you can give your kids is help in foregoing immediate gratification, by setting boundaries for them and by modeling the behavior yourself.  That&#8217;s also one of the greatest gifts you can give to those you lead or manage.
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		<link>http://businessmastery.com/home-page-article/leadership-begins-at-home/</link>
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		<title>The Unproductive Narcissist</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Narcissism Defined
Historically, the term “narcissism” comes from the Greek myth of Narcissus. In one of the more common versions of this myth, Narcissus is a physically attractive young man, who, upon seeing his own reflection in a pond, is so taken with himself that he withers away while staring at his own reflection in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/the-unproductive-narcissist/</link>
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		<title>Deploying Successful Initiatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PURPOSE
The purpose of deployment is to implement the initiatives in the workplace while continuing to look for the exploitation of unforeseen opportunities.  It is to break the barriers that impeded progress and initiate change.  It is to deploy the problem solving teams that are cross functional, systemic and collaborative in its approach.
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		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/deploying-successful-initiatives/</link>
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		<title>The Design of Successful Initiatives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Where the goal of inquiry was to dig deep into the root causes of the problem and discover the underlying Performance Improvement Points (PIPS), the purpose of the design stage is to prioritize those PIPS and then decide where one will get the maximum leverage.
It is the design stage which will allow the ALT to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/the-design-of-successful-initiatives/</link>
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		<title>When is an Action Learning Team Appropriate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An ALT can be very effective when addressing key organizational issues under the right circumstances.  Several considerations should be weighed when deciding whether an organizational issue lends itself to an action learning approach or not.
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		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/when-is-an-action-learning-team-appropriate/</link>
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		<title>Action Learning in the Army</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Probably the least likely organization in which we would expect to find vigorous Action Learning Teams is the United States Army.  The Army, like most military institutions, has the reputation of being conservative, hierarchical, and bound by centuries of tradition. Yet, some of the most impressive recent cultural and operational changes have come from [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/action-learning-in-the-army/</link>
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		<title>Creating Integration</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PURPOSE  OF INTEGRATION
Change often takes a long time to become part of the organization’s DNA, especially in large companies.  A number of forces can stop the progress of a change effort before it hits the finish line: turnover of key change agents, distraction of the leadership to other priorities, exhaustion.  Short term [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://businessmastery.com/articles/creating-integration/</link>
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