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		<title>Spotlight on Association Leadership: An interview with Forté Foundation&#8217;s executive director</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Elissa Ellis-Sangster serves as executive director for the Forté Foundation, an organization dedicated to inspiring women business leaders. Ellis-Sangster brings to the role extensive knowledge of issues affecting women’s abilities to seek, prepare for and attain business leadership positions, drawn from her  experience as assistant dean and director of the MBA Program at the McCombs [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/22/spotlight-on-association-leadership-an-interview-with-forte-foundations-executive-director/</link>
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		<title>How workplace culture can help drive employees to succeed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[S. Chris Edmonds is a speaker, author and senior consultant with the Ken Blanchard Companies. He co-authored Blanchard’s &#8220;Leading at a Higher Level,&#8221; Blanchard’s award-winning culture change process, and the soon-to-be-released &#8220;#POSITIVITY AT WORK tweet&#8221; book. Chris authored the &#8220;#CORPORATE CULTURE tweet&#8221; book released last year. Read and subscribe to his blog at DrivingResultsThroughCulture.com. How [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/22/how-workplace-culture-can-help-drive-employees-to-succeed/</link>
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		<title>VIP Corner: Brian Robertson, on how riding a bike is like managing a business</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SmartBrief is partnering with Big Think to create a weekly video spotlight in SmartBrief on Leadership called &#8220;VIP Corner: Video Insights Powered by Big Think.&#8221; This week, we&#8217;re featuring Brian Robertson, a partner at HolacracyOne. There&#8217;s a difference between predicting how you&#8217;d ride a bike and actually successfully riding the bike &#8212; and that concept [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/21/vip-corner-brian-robertson-on-how-riding-a-bike-is-like-managing-a-business/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s your opinion of people showing their emotions and crying in the workplace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SmartPulse — our weekly nonscientific reader poll in SmartBrief on Leadership — tracks feedback from more than 160,000 business leaders. We run the poll question each Tuesday in our e-newsletter. Last week, we asked: What&#8217;s your opinion of people showing their emotions and crying in the workplace? It&#8217;s completely acceptable as long as it&#8217;s not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/21/whats-your-opinion-of-people-showing-their-emotions-and-crying-in-the-workplace/</link>
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		<title>In football and business: To obtain the winning edge, instill confidence in your team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[James H. Quigley is former CEO of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and a senior partner in its U.S. member firm. He is also co-author of &#8220;As One: Individual Action, Collective Power.&#8221; The New York Giants were crowned the Super Bowl champions on Feb. 5, beating out the New England Patriots in a close match-up. But as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/20/in-football-and-business-to-obtain-the-winning-edge-instill-confidence-in-your-team/</link>
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		<title>Businesses, their customers and support: A love story told via infographic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Jim Belosic is the CEO of ShortStack, a self-service social media platform that allows users to create custom Facebook tabs. Its easy-to-use interface provides small businesses, individuals, graphic designers, agencies and corporations with the tools needed to build mini-websites within their Facebook pages that help drive user interaction and increase fan page likes. Valentine’s Day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/20/businesses-their-customers-and-support-a-love-story-told-via-infographic/</link>
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		<title>This week&#8217;s most clicked</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathy Ireland&#8217;s transformation from swimsuit model to multimillionaire; why you should foster a company of smart thinkers; and how you can still lead even if you can&#8217;t manage. It’s all in this week’s top five most-clicked links in SmartBrief on Leadership: How a former pinup girl outsells Martha Stewart Being bad at managing doesn&#8217;t mean [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/17/this-weeks-most-clicked-114/</link>
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		<title>Leadership brand is more than a buzzword</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It does matter what people think of your leadership. Reputation is essential to getting things done. Because leaders accomplish little by themselves, they need to bring together others for common purpose. How others perceive a leader is important to encouraging a following. In this video, I offer ideas on how to develop your leadership brand [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/17/leadership-brand-is-more-than-a-buzzword/</link>
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		<title>Diamonds in the rough: How to recognize your star employees</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Chery Gegelman is president of Giana Consulting, an organizational development company that seeks to be a source of light, help and understanding so the people and organizations they serve can more effectively accomplish their mission. Many years ago, a customer wrote a letter about me to my regional manager. To this day, I don’t know [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/16/diamonds-in-the-rough-how-to-recognize-your-star-employees/</link>
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		<title>3 tips to power up your pitch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shannon Alter is president of Alter Consulting Group. She helps managers and companies succeed by developing the skills they need to provide client solutions. Her book “Say it With Success: Foolproof Ways to Improve Your Presentation Skills” is available at AlterConsultingGroup.com. You’re on the way to pitch your services to a promising prospective client. As [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://smartblogs.com/leadership/2012/02/15/3-tips-to-power-up-your-pitch/</link>
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