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	<title>Slow Leadership &#187; Authenticity</title>
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	<description>Articles on returning humanity to working life.</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 12:09:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Why You Need to Tell it Like it Is</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/why-you-need-to-tell-it-like-it-is/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/11/why-you-need-to-tell-it-like-it-is/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Nov 2008 12:14:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Simosko</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Communication]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Honesty]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[When faced with a choice between saying something to make a person aware of a problem, or not saying anything and simply hoping for some change, Nina Simosko believes that there's no contest. Say what you need to say and say it as clearly as possible.]]></description>
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		<title>Are you digging yourself into a hole?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/are-you-digging-yourself-into-a-hole/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/are-you-digging-yourself-into-a-hole/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:50:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Fear]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1651</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda considers 'the hole'—that universal human sense of being lacking in some way. How far you will experience inner peace and happiness is a function of how you choose to fill your own hole. You can choose to reduce and then eliminate it, or dig a deeper one. It’s up to you.]]></description>
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		<title>Preserving Your Soul</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/preserving-your-soul/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/preserving-your-soul/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:02:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Civilized work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Self-preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1633</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Finding ways to stay true to yourself and make your life civilized, at home and at work, isn’t simply a pleasant idea, like decorating a house to make it look welcoming and an attractive place to live. It’s essential to your well-being. It’s also essential for the long-term health of any organization.]]></description>
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		<title>Hope Is Still Possible</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/hope-is-still-possible/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/hope-is-still-possible/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Oct 2008 12:57:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Integrity]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Poverty]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1641</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Douglas Ross reports on the genesis of the first ever ‘Hope is Possible’ program for women facing special challenges in a world driven by greed, bureaucracy, fear and political and business leaders that destroy trust through severe lapses in ethical and moral judgment.]]></description>
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		<title>Connecting Versus Relating</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/connecting-versus-relating/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/10/connecting-versus-relating/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:28:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Business Ethics]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Corporate culture]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1410</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda argues that the dynamic we have come to know as ‘relationship’ is disintegrating, replaced by a connection or transaction, most often based on superficial contacts characterized by distance and impersonal channels like e-mails, cellphones, Blackberrys, social networking sites or texting. This electronic connection is devoid of direct, personal contact. There's no face-to-face interaction, so direct emotional connection is lost—and, with it, the basis for trust. ]]></description>
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		<title>Coyote and The Jackalope</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/coyote-and-the-jackalope/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/coyote-and-the-jackalope/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2008 12:55:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1266</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Coyote meets a Jackalope, discovers the truth about the mythical beast (or at least this particular example of it) and gives someone an impromptu lesson about the importance of being authentic. [Podcast]]]></description>
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		<title>Being Authentic (on a Small Scale)</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/being-authentic-on-a-small-scale/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/being-authentic-on-a-small-scale/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:06:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Better Management]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Haiku]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1222</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A Monday-morning haiku on the subject of being yourself.]]></description>
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		<title>I Think, Therefore I Am . . . or Maybe Not</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/i-think-therefore-i-am-or-maybe-not/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/09/i-think-therefore-i-am-or-maybe-not/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:38:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Purpose]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda takes you on a journey inside your own head in search of the sources of the mental programming that controls what you say and do. On what basis are you who and what you think you are? Is it even true? Who is really pulling your strings? Find out in this article.]]></description>
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		<title>Ego, Work and Relationships</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/ego-work-and-relationships/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/ego-work-and-relationships/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1090</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Peter Vajda notes that there seems to be an ever-increasing number of people who use their social skills to create workplace relationships purely to climb the rank-related workplace ladder. They possess all the aplomb and niceties that go along with creating and maintaining relationships, but use them almost solely in the workplace. Only later do they discover they don't know who they are and recognize what they have lost. But it's never too late.]]></description>
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		<title>Hurry, Scurry, Worry, Work</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/hurry-scurry-worry-work/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/hurry-scurry-worry-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=1068</guid>
		<description><![CDATA["Hurry, Scurry, Worry, Work" — President Truman's words during the MacArthur crisis — pretty much continues to sum up many people's experience of life and work. Doug Ross argues that it doesn't have to be that way. Each one of us needs to find our own way to the Holy Grail that is integrity and wholeness. Like King Arthur's knights, we need to enter the forest, each in our own way at our own time, to take up the search for the ultimate answer to "what's in it for me?"]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging on for dear life</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/hanging-on-for-dear-life/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/hanging-on-for-dear-life/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:54:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=917</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Life evolves continually — at work, at home, at play and in relationships. Yet, if pain and suffering accompany change, they are less likely to come from the experience of change itself than from trying to hold on to the past and your familiar ways of thinking, being and doing.  Underneath reactivity to change is fear of the unknown, fear of new ways of doing or thinking about things, fear about having to learn something new, and fear of letting go.]]></description>
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		<title>An Interview with Carmine Coyote</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/an-interview-with-carmine-coyote/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/08/an-interview-with-carmine-coyote/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=857</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An interview with Carmine Coyote, founder of the Slow Leadership blog, covering the concept of Slow Leadership, the importance of making time to think, why you should always avoid multi-tasking, and why many of today's problems have a single cause — a pervasive lack of trust.]]></description>
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		<title>Baa, Baa, Baaaaa!</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/baa-baa-baaaaa/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/baa-baa-baaaaa/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:36:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=744</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If we want a civilized and ethical way of living and working, we must accept the responsibilities and perils that come from being authentic as individuals. We cannot hide behind the norms and notions of the herd. Humans collectively have a lot of bad beliefs and assumptions in their heads, placed there by cultural and tribal forces and ancient survival instincts. Seeking the safety of the herd comes with a heavy price: all herd thinking is ultimately a loss of human freedom, authenticity and creativity. Besides, you can hardly call yourself a leader if all you do is follow the herd.]]></description>
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		<title>Feeling the Fear, but Going It Alone Anyway</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/feeling-the-fear-but-going-it-alone-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/feeling-the-fear-but-going-it-alone-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Katherine Lockett</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=694</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kath Lockett tells the tangled story of going it alone as a self-employed writer — along with the problems of facing panhandlers, admitting to a flirtation with Feng Shui, and sundry other sources of uncomfortable self-realization.]]></description>
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		<title>Groundhog Day</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/groundhog-day/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2008/07/groundhog-day/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:24:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Douglas Ross</dc:creator>
		
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=688</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People, especially in relationships and in jobs, recreate the same old story, over and over again. They are held in the vice-like grip of old patterns of behavior and broken dreams. Only when we realize that to change our world we have to change ourselves will something different occur. Once you face that reality, you can change the way you react and begin a new adventure of learning from mistakes and building on successes. ]]></description>
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