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		<title>10 Management Lessons-Ryan Allis</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past five years, as iContact and Virante have  grown, I&#8217;ve learned a lot about managing people. A business amounts to little  without the people behind it. The two most important things I look for  when hiring are initiative and work ethic. I cannot overestimate the importance  to the eventual [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/02/16/10-management-lessons-ryan-allis/</link>
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		<title>Indicators of Leadership Potential-Ram Charan</title>
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This is the fourth in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I&#8217;ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy!

In my many years of observing leaders, I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/24/indicators-of-leadership-potential-ram-charan/</link>
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		<title>Business Acumen-Ram Charan</title>
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This is the third in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I&#8217;ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy!

Every  successful businessperson, whether a street vendor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/23/business-acumen-ram-charan/</link>
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		<title>People Acumen-Ram Charan</title>
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This is the second in a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I&#8217;ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy!

Leadership is  predicated on the ability to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/22/people-acumen-ram-charan/</link>
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		<title>Focusing on the Essentials-Ram Charan</title>
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This week, between Monday and Thursday, I&#8217;ve decided to post a series of four articles written by Ram Charan, based on his latest book, Leaders at all Levels. As soon as I read the book, I&#8217;ll post a review. In the meantime, these articles are packed full of value and very useful. Enjoy!
Do you think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/21/focusing-on-the-essentials-ram-charan/</link>
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		<title>Review: Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do you need the courage to keep living? Do you feel that life is cruel and that you can&#8217;t deal with the suffering it throws at you? If so, you need a reality check of sorts. You need to find meaning in your life, and that&#8217;s what this book is about.

Man&#8217;s Search for Meaning covers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/18/review-mans-search-for-meaning/</link>
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		<title>We Need Leaders Like Patrick Awuah</title>
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After growing up in Ghana, Patrick Awuah studied in Swarthmore College, in Pennsylvania, and later moved to Washington State to work for Microsoft. After several years in Microsoft, and after becoming a father, he came to the realization that the African continent was in dire need of better leaders. He saw an absence of ethical [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/17/we-need-leaders-like-patrick-awuah/</link>
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		<title>How To Be An Effective Presenter</title>
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Perhaps you lost an election for the local city council because of your poor debate performance. Or maybe you got a C in a class just because you did badly on an oral report. Those situations happen frequently, even when the substance of an argument is sound, or even superior to others. In other words, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/16/how-to-be-an-effective-presenter/</link>
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		<title>Leadership-Related Blog Carnivals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last couple of months I&#8217;ve participated in various Blog Carnivals. I&#8217;m sure you can find great value in them, so I&#8217;ll list them below so that you can browse through them. They all contain posts or articles which relate to leadership. I&#8217;ll also get in the habit of mentioning all the future blog [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/15/leadership-related-blog-carnivals/</link>
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		<title>Leaders Need To Walk The Talk</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I feel compelled to extend the conversation taking place in Leaders that DON&#8217;T:politicians, from Leadership Turn, regarding alternatives to politicians. First let me restate, as I said in We Need Alternatives to Politicians!:
&#8220;&#8230;politicians just want to get elected and let that cloud their judgment (even many well-intentioned ones, I’m afraid) while true leaders care about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://artofleading.net/2008/01/14/leaders-need-to-walk-the-talk/</link>
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