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		<title>Summit Superlatives – Leadership Summit on May 9 &amp; 10, 2013</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just spent four great days in Orlando, Florida attending the Gazelles International Coaches Summit and the Leadership Summit presented by Fortune.  The four days I spend each spring (leadership) and fall (growth) at these events are always super in the moment and the lasting impact.
Here are some of the “Summit Superlatives” from the last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Accepting the Whirlwind Opens Up Options for Achieving Your Goals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mistakes are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce
Heraclitus of Ephesus (535 BC &#8211; 475 BC) is the Greek philosopher that first stated &#8220;change is central to the universe.&#8221; Over time, there have been many variants to this discovery including:

There is nothing permanent except change.
Nothing is permanent except change.
The only constant is change.
Change is the only [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/accepting-the-whirlwind-opens-up-options-for-achieving-your-goals/</link>
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		<title>Why Growth Companies Stop Growing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Not all growth companies keep growing. Promising companies that pass $10M in revenue can lose momentum before they reach $20M.  Most growth companies are sold before they reach $30M in revenue, long before they’ve realized their full value. 
Why do so many “growth” companies stop growing?
After two decades as a growth company leader and advisor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/why-growth-companies-stop-growing/</link>
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		<title>The 1-2-Many Approach to Strong Execution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many organizations have embraced metrics as a tool for driving execution since we experienced the great recession of 2008. Metrics are certainly an important mechanism for performance!
Yet, as the &#8220;obsession&#8221; with metrics grows within organizations, it is starting to cause more challenges than returns. Organizations and managers are hiding behind the metrics &#8220;facade&#8221; instead of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/the-1-2-many-approach-to-strong-execution/</link>
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		<title>The 3 Components to Improving Your Luck</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In honor of St. Patrick&#8217;s Day, Manta conducted a survey of 992 small business owners to determine the perceived luckiest CEOs. This snapshot in time found Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page, and Steve Jobs/Tim Cook at the top of the luckiest list, and Ron Johnson, Mark Pincus, and Michael Dell at the top of the unluckiest [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/the-3-components-to-improving-your-luck/</link>
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		<title>The Most Important Meeting for Managing and Driving Smart Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Meetings are one of several mechanisms used for communication in organizations. Other mechanisms include policies, procedures, memos, newsletters, and the vastly growing electronic methods for communicating (e.g. email, website, blog, text, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc&#8230;).
There are opportunities with each mechanism for communication and there are problems with each mechanism for communication. However, when mechanisms become default [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/the-most-important-meeting-for-managing-and-driving-smart-growth/</link>
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		<title>The Right Kind and Balance of Conflict is Necessary for Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Conflict can arise anytime individuals have different values, thought processes, attitudes, opinions, needs, interests, requirements, and perceptions. The differences, in and of itself, don&#8217;t necessarily lead to destructive conflict &#8211; heated personal arguments, verbal attacks, and/or physical abuses. Instead, it is dysfunctional beliefs and conditions regarding conflict that lead them to being destructive.
Destructive conflict is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/the-right-kind-and-balance-of-conflict-is-necessary-for-success/</link>
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		<title>Both Good Strategy AND Good Tactics are Necessary</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A great strategy without good implementation will not get you to where you want to go. On the other hand, a poor strategy with great implementation will also leave you fighting for survival.
You can&#8217;t have either a poor strategy or poor implementation and achieve any level of success in the marketplace. You also don&#8217;t need [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/both-good-strategy-and-good-tactics-are-necessary/</link>
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		<title>Zoom Zoom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a Mazda vehicle owner for several years, I was always quite impressed with their Zoom Zoom marketing campaign. It did a fantastic job of communicating the fun driving experience that they built into the automobiles. The positive vehicle experiences I have had and this Zoom Zoom element have led me back to Mazda several [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/zoom-zoom/</link>
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		<title>Lean AND Leverage &#8211; a Great Example of the &#8220;Genius of the AND&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Lean is a mindset of eliminating (or avoiding) waste in creating value for an end customer. Unfortunately, many companies, units, and people get so focused on eliminating waste from their processes that they interfere with their ability to create value for an end customer.
It is probably not a coincidence that the eastern philosophy centered Toyota [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/lean-and-leverage-a-great-example-of-the-genius-of-the-and/</link>
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