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		<title>Handling Disappointment? Apply The Stockdale Paradox</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you who read A Lesson from Good To Great Stockdale Paradox – 3rd Biopsy Results know the results from my third biopsy were not what I’d hoped.    Thursday evening late I got more bad news about the results from my   fourth biopsy.  What the doctors had hoped would happen, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rip Van Winkle’s Leadership Lesson from Martin Luther King</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Remember the story of Rip Van Winkle?  You probably remember he slept for 20 years, but little else.


 
At a 1959 commencement speech at Morehouse State Martin, Luther King reminded his audience there was another lesson to Washington Irving&#8217;s story of Rip Van Winkle.  When Rip went to sleep in the mountains, on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/rip-van-winkle%e2%80%99s-leadership-lesson-from-martin-luther-king/</link>
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		<title>Routine Sets You Free</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether we realize it or not, we all have our routines that help or hinder our success.  Aristotle noted, &#8220;We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit.&#8221;

Recently I rediscovered the value of routine when I purchased a new computer.  If you&#8217;ve had the occasion to move [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/routine-sets-you-free/</link>
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		<title>Performance Trumps Everything Right?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In your business do you place the highest priority on measuring performance and productivity?  Sales revenue, units sold, profit margin, efficiency standards.  Are these gold standard in your business?

If so be aware that without balance, including counter balances to these measures, your business can become misaligned and begin to miss the priorities you&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/performance-trumps-everything-right/</link>
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		<title>Employee Engagement:  Inspire Your Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you ready to get 2012 off to a roaring start?  Would you like to get your team more inspired this year?  Mike Schulte, Fleck Sales, earlier this year shared a video on what inspires your team.  People don&#8217;t buy what you do; they buy why you do it.  It&#8217;s the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/employee-engagement-inspire-your-team/</link>
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		<title>Alignment – How Will 2012 Play Out for You?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Twelve tired, sweat covered young men shuffle through the hall toward a classroom.  Each chooses a desk to sit in, plops themselves down for an unexpected respite from a grueling first week of basketball practice.  The group looks around, engages in small talk, with one team member shouting out, &#8220;Wick, do you know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/alignment-%e2%80%93-how-will-2012-play-out-for-you/</link>
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		<title>Make Yourself, Employees and Customers Happier – Employee Engagement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Did you realize when a customer says thanks, they make you happy, but they make themselves even happier.  In her book The How of Happiness, Sonja Lyubomirsky, a professor at the University of California, Riverside, describes a dozen scientifically proven strategies to make yourself happier.  The first?  Expressing gratitude.

What is your company [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/make-yourself-employees-and-customers-happier-%e2%80%93-employee-engagement/</link>
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		<title>This Boss Is Always Right – Value Collective Intelligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve heard the story of the boss who has two rules:  Rule #1 The Boss is Always Right.  Rule #2 When the boss is wrong, refer to Rule #1.

In many companies this time of year for annual planning revolves around one person making plans, usually the president or owner(s).  The reason this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/this-boss-is-always-right-%e2%80%93-value-collective-intelligence/</link>
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		<title>Missing Element in Annual Planning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2012: Planning or Strategy we discussed the distinction between planning and strategy.  While many companies struggle to execute their plans, the reality is most companies fail not due to execution, rather due to poor decisions.

Annual planning is a critical time for strategy development.

Are you using the One Page Strategic Plan as the fundamental [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://gicoaches.com/missing-element-in-annual-planning/</link>
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		<title>Enduring Motivators – Dan Pinks’ Balancing Indicator?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;ve not seen Dan Pinks video yet RSA Animate &#8211; Drive: The surprising truth about what motivates us, I urge you to view it.   Pink presented his views on human behavior and motivation during the Phoenix Growth Summit.  I&#8217;ll have more on his offerings in future blogs.


 
During an annual planning workshop [...]]]></description>
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