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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Definition of Success?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:23:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night, as I was telling the kids goodnight, I noticed that the movie Tin Cup was on television.  I’m not a huge movie buff but that’s one of the classics in my opinion.  I happen to walk through the room just at the beginning of the scene where Roy McAvoy, with a chance to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Builder or Conqueror, Which Kind of Leader Are You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Aug 2010 00:57:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why does your business exist?  No matter what kind of organization you are leading, whether you are an executive in a huge corporation or a solo entrepreneur, you have a concept of what your business is about.  How you think about that question will greatly determine what your business looks like a year from now. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Culture Change, It Could Happen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:13:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watching culture change happen within a business is something that makes a lasting impression.  There are many organizations that don’t understand why culture is so important and many more that want to change it but don’t know how.  I&#8217;ve even read articles like this one, that suggest it may not even be possible. Culture change, to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Effective Leadership Means Stopping The Drama</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 13:34:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was working with a leader recently who wanted the people on her team to treat their relationship differently.  Because she was approachable, compassionate and empathetic to her team, they began to share every trouble, woe and bit of drama in their lives with her, often when there were pressing business issues that needed to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Development&#8230; Are You Investing, Or Just Spending?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of the companies I work with dedicate some percentage of their revenue toward developing the leaders in their business.   One of the discussions we often have up front is the difference between spending money to train leaders and investing to grow them. I spend money on a nice dinner; I invest in my retirement.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Management vs. Leadership&#8230;.Or Is It?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:18:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s hard to work in the area of developing leaders without addressing the issue of management versus leadership.  Much debate has been had about what each of these words means in the business world and which one is more important.  Recently, I’ve even heard a lot of discussion about the issue of individuals leading too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your People Telling You to Keep the Change?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 01:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Often, when organizations are trying to make change happen, it comes down to a couple of levers that they need to pull to start the motion.  It might be organizational structure, or process, or communication.  Almost always, it’s a combination of things that need to be addressed in order to cause change to happen.  But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Build a Career, Create Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jul 2010 13:04:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve worked with a lot of folks lately who have had a change in careers or are looking for a new one and one thing keeps becoming clearer to me as I have conversations with these folks.  It’s not about the ground gained, it’s about the potential created. So many people who were focused on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Lessons From a Five Year Old</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently wrote an article about how leaders focus on things a little differently than others and that it’s not that they engage in different activities, as much as it is how they engage.  Leaders tend to think differently about their daily activities and focus on a different outcome, so they get exactly that.  One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are We Investing Our Time, Or Spinning Our Wheels?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jun 2010 01:36:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Randy Hall</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the most common questions I get when I am working with leaders who are trying to make a shift in how they lead themselves and others, goes something like this:  &#8221;How am I supposed to do all of this other leadership and people stuff when it takes all of my time just to [...]]]></description>
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