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		<title>15 Tips for Overcoming Insecurity</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Living with others in mind is healthy, noble, and useful except when insecurity drives you. Insecure leaders: Defend when they should explore. Take things personally. Blame higher ups for tough decisions. Don’t trust others because they don’t trust themselves. Can’t say no. Threaten, intimidate, and coerce.  Shut down input from others because feedback is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7419&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating a Mistake-making Policy</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Humility]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Values]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Integrity isn’t perfection, its better. During a hospital stay a nurse turned off and neglected to turn on my pneumatic leg pumps. (Devices designed to help prevent blood clots in the legs of trauma patients. Hospital staff called them SCUDS) She removed them about 3 a.m. so I could get up. When I returned, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7408&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Useful Leadership Quotes? &#8211; You Decide</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/25/useful-leadership-quotes-you-decide/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 11:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership quotes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marks of leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[leadership opportunities]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[***** Today&#8217;s world appreciates brevity. Useful leadership quotes inspire, distill, or direct, quickly. Will you bring your perspective and insights to this set of leadership quotes? Grab one or more and expand, correct, or modify it? 17 leadership quotes for you to play with: Great leaders don’t change people. They create environments where people can change [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7382&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Letting People Go with Transparency and Dignity</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/24/letting-people-go-with-transparency-and-dignity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:10:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leading]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ethics violations]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Never make enemies of people you “let go,” if you can help it. “Every person who leaves goes on to represent your company. They can bad-mouth or praise.” Jack Welch One wise business owner told me, “Sometimes I’m closer to people after I fire them than before.” Turning bad to good: Never humiliate. Ask, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7375&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Speak Like the Pros</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/23/how-to-speak-like-the-pros/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Influence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Leading is more difficult if you can&#8217;t speak well. Speaking ability enhances leadership potential. Public platforms provide opportunities to shape, direct, and motivate organizations. Be as smart as this student: Holly said she wasn’t excited about the presentations she was giving this semester. I followed up, “Do you have a speech class?” She replied, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7366&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tapping the Positive Potential of Anger</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/22/tapping-the-positive-potential-of-anger/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 22:43:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Managing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Marks of leaders]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Passion]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bad side of anger]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[hidden self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reckless behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Anger is a high potential power-emotion. Anger reveals your values and exposes a hidden self. Flipping off reckless drivers may not be polite but it says you value your safety. The sad side of anger is it makes you a fool. Unmanaged anger is scalding, destructive passion. Managed anger drives change by harnessing energy. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7357&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Turtles and Rabbits &#8211; Finding Pace</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/21/on-turtles-and-rabbits-finding-pace/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jan 2012 20:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Personal Growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Taking others higher]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Teams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Time management]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Few leaders find effective pace naturally. You’re running in circles because of two types of mistakes; both have to do with pace. You’re either too slow or too fast. Pokey Turtle: Scan your personal history. Has foot dragging plagued you? Has delay exacerbated your frustrations? Do you find yourself missing opportunities and wishing you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7347&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Stop Rowing in Circles till You Sink</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/20/how-to-stop-rowing-in-circles-till-you-sink/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Saying No]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[brokenness]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***** Fitting in is the path to regret. Leaders don&#8217;t fit in they stand out. Bureaucrats fit in. Standing out is dangerous in some organizational cultures; you’ll get beat down till you conform. Conformity is death. Positive impact confronts the sludge of stagnant organizations. Something: People of impact are known for something. Reputation establishes identity, improves impact, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7338&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Accidents</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/the-power-of-accidents/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 13:26:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community Update]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[***Danger! This post is 400 words. Danger*** Incompetence makes you push challenges away. Inadequacy causes you to pull back. “Not good enough” (perfectionism) is the reason you don’t start. I’ve been putting off this post for a few days because I feel incompetent and inadequate to write it. I can’t write it good enough. Radical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7331&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Move Through Uncertainty to Opportunity</title>
		<link>http://leadershipfreak.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/how-to-move-through-uncertainty-to-opportunity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 11:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dan Rockwell</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Image source Ineffective leaders require certainty before they act, I am certain. On the other hand, successful leaders make decisions where outcomes are uncertain. Turbulent times, regulations and compliance, technology, politics, people, and global markets enflame uncertainty. Additionally, complex challenges have more than one solution. Leadership is rich with uncertainty. A surprising juxtaposition: “Trustworthy leaders move [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=leadershipfreak.wordpress.com&amp;blog=10864390&amp;post=7323&amp;subd=leadershipfreak&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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