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	<title>Management Excellence by Art Petty</title>
	
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	<itunes:summary>Host Art Petty interviews leaders, leadership authors, management thinkers and other professionals about creating high performance teams and organizations and developing effective leaders at all levels, during this weekly program. The goal is to share practical, powerful ideas to help listeners improve their performance and the performance of their teams and organizations.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Art of Managing: Tackle the Big Issues by Creating Time to Think Deeply</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2013 13:21:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Finding time to Think Deeply]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Tackling the Big Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, you just have to call a time-out. While our tendency is to respond to the gravitational pull of our devices and the unceasing demands of the urgent and urgent-unimportant in our work lives, some issues simply require deep thought. Here are 6 ideas to support your effort to find deep-thinking time on the big issues for you and your team:]]></description>
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		<title>New Leader Tuesday-Job One is to Strengthen Others</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/CHFpJ1l-jbw/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/21/new-leader-tuesday-job-one-is-to-strengthen-others/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 21 May 2013 12:36:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Leader Tuesday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strengthening Others]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=9066</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s not easy to move from a self-focused professional to someone who suddenly is measured by the success and growth of his or her team members.Here are 6 ideas to support your efforts on this long, arduous and rewarding journey: ]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine-Coping with Critics in the Workplace</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/8imnVQFykl4/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/20/leadership-caffeine-coping-with-critics-in-the-workplace/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2013 13:25:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting Ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change in the Face of Adversity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Coping with Workplace Critics]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ It takes courage of conviction and a strong dose of self-confidence to absorb the flak from the naysayers. Here are 7 ideas to help you better cope with your workplace critics: ]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Your Career-7 Key Do’s and Don’ts for the Newly Minted MBA</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/ZnT0nwRDJ1o/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/17/its-your-career-7-key-dos-and-donts-for-the-newly-minted-mba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 17 May 2013 14:53:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA["To Do" List]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Your Career!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Do's and Don'ts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[How to Leverage Your New MBA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Your Career]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=9042</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It's graduation season again in the U.S. and for most newly minted MBA graduates, it's time for a reality check. Here are some hard-won words of wisdom on how to navigate the steps immediately following your graduation. ]]></description>
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		<title>Just One Thing: How to Defuse Difficult Workplace Discussions</title>
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		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/16/just-one-thing-how-to-defuse-difficult-workplace-discussions/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2013 13:57:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just One Thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defusing Difficult Discussions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improved Workplace Conversations]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Interests Not Positions]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=9030</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Almost all of us get this wrong in the professional environment at some time or another. Myself included. We find ourselves in a tense situation with someone or some group who is attempting to assert a direction or insert themselves into the area we perceive as our domain, and we react by aggressively defending our position and by challenging or attacking their position. Here are five ideas to help you defuse and improve these difficult discussions:]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: 5 Ideas to Bring Strategy to Life on Your Team</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/YWc0fDI4FpE/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/13/leadership-caffeine-5-ideas-to-bring-strategy-to-life-on-your-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2013 13:15:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Strategy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Improving Your Team's Strategic Agility]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leaders and Strategy]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=9022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Regardless of your level in the organization, you have a responsibility to find ways to create a direct link between your team’s priorities and your firm’s ability to make money, create and satisfy customers and beat competitors. Here are five ideas to help you span this gap:

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		<title>New Leader Tuesday-10 Things I Learned the Hard Way About Leading</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/JQz-WLN-o3s/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/07/new-leader-tuesday-10-things-i-learned-the-hard-way-about-leading/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 15:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=9009</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Experience is the best teacher when it comes to learning to lead, however, there are a few items that I wish someone would have pointed out before I tripped all over myself earlier in my career. Forewarned is forearmed!]]></description>
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		<title>Art of Managing-Kick Mediocrity to the Curb in Pursuit of Extraordinary</title>
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		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/05/06/art-of-managing-kick-mediocrity-to-the-curb-in-pursuit-of-extraordinary/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 May 2013 12:56:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art of Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extraordinary Customer Service]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[high-performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mediocre is on display daily in too many areas of our society and in too many of our businesses. From the boss who just doesn’t care to our government seemingly barely functioning to the miserable help-lines of too many firms to the slow gait…the shuffle of retail workers at organizations that definitely don’t care, ordinary and average are epidemic. Here are 8 ideas to help you kick mediocrity to the curb in pursuit of extraordinary on your team: ]]></description>
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		<title>New Leader Tuesday: Dealing with the Personal Problems of Your Team Members</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/i9dtRVcgUtM/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/30/new-leader-tuesday-dealing-with-the-personal-problems-of-your-team-members/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:00:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Leader Tuesday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Problems and Performance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[One of the occupational challenges of your role as a manager or supervisor is learning how to navigate the personal issues of your team members that seep (or rush) into the workplace. Here are 5 ideas to help you navigate this sticky situation: 

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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: A Note for the Boss Who Talks Too Much</title>
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		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/29/leadership-caffeine-a-note-for-the-boss-who-talks-too-much/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 13:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Surviving Lousy Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Listening and Leadership]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[If you happen to work for someone who clearly consumes verbal diuretics and suffers an excessive outflow of spoken waste, consider “sharing” the guidance below. ]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: The Difference Between Finishers and 70-Percenters</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2013 02:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[70-Percenters]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[character]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fortitude]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8968</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[There’s a class of professionals in the world one of my former bosses labeled as “70-Percenters.” They’re the people who are great at making noise, and even getting things started, but they don’t know how to close. They’re not finishers. Here are 5 key behaviors of finishers: ]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Your Career! Now is the Time to Start Reinventing Yourself</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/3D-r8lQ7k_k/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/12/its-your-career-now-is-the-time-to-start-reinventing-yourself/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Apr 2013 14:03:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Your Career!]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Obsolescence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Defining What's Next]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[It's Your Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reinventing Your Career]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8958</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to your career, the best defense is a good offense. The odds are fairly good that at some point, you will face an unexpected interruption in your employment. The issue isn’t that it happened, it’s what you do once you’re faced with this problem that is critical to your career. Here are 5 ideas to help you jump start your career reinvention now, before the old one disappears: ]]></description>
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		<title>New Leader Tuesday-7 Ideas to Strengthen Accountability on Your Team</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/cVj5aqSEjs8/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/09/new-leader-tuesday-7-ideas-to-strengthen-accountability-on-your-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Apr 2013 13:03:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[accountability]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Accountability. Tattoo it on your forearm. Imprint it on your brain. Repeat it three times every morning. And then assert it all day long. Here are 7 ideas to help you strengthen the culture of accountability on your team: ]]></description>
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		<title>Art of Managing: The Power of a Well-Placed “No”</title>
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		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/07/art-of-managing-the-power-of-a-well-placed-no/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2013 23:15:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Discipline]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Moral Courage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[“No” is one of the most powerful and under-utilized terms in your management vocabulary. Here are ten situations where "No" might be the absolute right call. ]]></description>
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		<title>New Leader Tuesday: Start Leading Before the Promotion</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/llPU9nTYiqc/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/04/02/new-leader-tuesday-start-leading-before-the-promotion/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Apr 2013 13:02:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Ahead]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marketing Yourself]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New Leader Tuesday]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Started]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Your Leadership Development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Monday’s Leadership Caffeine post, I strongly encouraged senior managers to accelerate the pace of their leadership development activities for their high potentials. Today, it’s your turn. Quit waiting for the boss to bestow the mantle of leadership responsibility on you. Here are 5 ideas to help you gain leadership experience before the title:]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: Accelerate New Leader Development</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/1N_HfaURDpk/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/31/leadership-caffeine-accelerate-new-leader-development/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:52:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Professional Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accelerate Leadership Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Apprentice Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[new leader development]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In my experience, many senior managers move too slowly to expose their developing leaders to new and more challenging situations. This is a mistake that artificially inhibits professional growth and potentially risks losing the interest of your best and brightest emerging leaders. Here are 5 ideas to help you move opportunities along at a faster pace, and a polite reminder that nothing is free. You’re on the hook for coaching every step of the way.]]></description>
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		<title>Art of Managing: Beware the Pursuit of False Precision in Planning</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/MdpAgQ8I7NE/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/24/art-of-managing-beware-false-precision-in-planning/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2013 21:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art of Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Art of Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Benefits of Planning]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Beware False Precision]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Planning and Forecasting]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Chance are, you’ve seen this movie before. It’s the one where you or your team are on the hook for distilling the chaos and complexity of the market and the ambiguities and risks surrounding emerging opportunities, competitors and disruptive technologies, into a nice, neat multi-year forecast. As Eisenhower offered, In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.”]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: 4 Common Project Leadership Mistakes to Avoid</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/-ou685aPcds/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/18/leadership-caffeine-4-common-project-leadership-mistakes-to-avoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 14:38:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dealing with Difficult People]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Key Project Leadership Mistakes to Avoid]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Teams]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8895</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The team or project leader’s responsibility is not to find a way to squash the variance in personalities, but rather to foster the right environment for people who are different to come together and perform. Here are four key mistakes to avoid as you seek to align your collection of challenging personalities around your project and pursue great performance.]]></description>
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		<title>Art of Managing: Work is Where the Brain Is</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/XzaCDWDMdCE/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/10/work-is-where-the-brain-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2013 23:53:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Art of Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Best Buy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Location]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Yahoo]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8878</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the past two weeks there’s been a buzz in the world of business generated by two firms changing longstanding working arrangements. Not incidentally, both firms are fighting for corporate survival. I suspect that the fundamental problems of two firms who no longer exist for completely obvious reasons, have as their root causes, something much deeper than whether butts are in seats behind the same walls every single day.]]></description>
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		<title>Just One Thing: Leading is Lonely Work</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/hJej5PJnC0Q/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/07/just-one-thing-leading-is-lonely-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:32:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Just One Thing]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leading and Deciding]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading is Lonely Work]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8864</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Leading is lonely work. The higher you climb on the ladder, the tougher and lonelier the decisions become. Get used to it. No one ever signed on as a senior leader because of the potential for camaraderie.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: Jump-start Your Team’s “Ideas to Actions” Machine</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/fxYwZNJEokA/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/03/03/jumpstart-your-teams-ideas-to-actions-machine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Mar 2013 02:10:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Caffeine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Ideas to Actions]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Work Environment]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8852</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ideas in the workplace that are voiced but never vetted or pursued are the corporate equivalent of those brilliant insights we have in the middle of the night that we don’t bother to write down. “I’ll remember it in the morning,” we think at the time. We rarely do. Here are 7 ideas to help you jumpstart your firm's "ideas to Actions" machine: ]]></description>
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		<title>Just One Thing: Talent without Unity of Purpose Equals a Failed Team</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/Ld8Kc3t2L-Y/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/02/27/just-one-thing-talent-without-unity-of-purpose-equals-a-failed-team/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2013 12:32:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Just One Thing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[team performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unity of Purpose]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The essence of good leadership includes not only bringing great talent to the party, but also creating an environment that encourages people to come together around a clear and compelling purpose. How hard are you working at moving beyond the targets and numbers to help your team discover and focus on its' unifying purpose?]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine: How to Survive a Sudden Promotion Into Leadership</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/T_pEYc42eTQ/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/02/24/survive-a-sudden-promotion-to-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2013 21:56:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Surviving Lousy Leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[first-time leader]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8834</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the oddities of organizational life is the fairly frequent and sudden promotion of individuals from competent individual contributor to someone responsible for the work of others…supervisor or manager, without any visible sign of mentoring or support for the newly in-charge individual. “Congratulations…go get ‘em Tiger.” Here are 6 ideas to help you survive this challenging new assignment: ]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine-5 Priceless Lessons from Amundsen and Scott</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/24VtzaPU4xM/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/02/17/leadership-caffeine-amundsen-and-scott/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:31:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Decision-Making]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Project Management]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Jim Collins Great By Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Lessons from Roald Amundsen]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Luck and Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Race to the South Pole]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://artpetty.com/?p=8814</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In preparation for an upcoming presentation, I’ve become a bit obsessed with studying the 1910 expeditions and race between Roald Amundsen and Robert Falcon Scott to 90-degrees South (the South Pole).  The lessons for leaders and managers practically leap off the pages of this classic example of coping with risk, uncertainty and volatility. Here are 5 lessons from these remarkable expeditions that you can apply in your work-life today:]]></description>
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		<title>Managers: Show Fear the Door</title>
		<link>http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/artpetty/management_excellence/~3/l_cwGOY4Hs0/</link>
		<comments>http://artpetty.com/2013/02/14/managers-show-fear-the-door/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Feb 2013 14:01:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Crisis Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Management Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Performance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Deming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading During Difficult Times]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing Fear in the Workplace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Intuitively, one would expect most senior managers to recognize both the delicate state of people’s emotions in this uncertain era and to take some steps to both confront and mitigate this destructive force in the workplace. Based on the survey results, perhaps more than a few managers missed the memo. Here’s your reminder.]]></description>
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