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	<title>Slow Leadership &#187; Featured post</title>
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		<title>Taking a Break</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/taking-a-break/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/taking-a-break/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2009 02:27:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Carmine Coyote is taking a break.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Are You Feeling?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/how-are-you-feeling/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/how-are-you-feeling/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Jun 2009 12:23:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choice]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Enjoying work]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Surviving in a culture obsessed with emotions&#160;
Have you noticed that the ‘appropriate’ question to ask someone today about a proposal is, “How do you feel about that?” Not, “What do you think of that?” or “Do you have any ideas on that?”
At least on this, US, side of the Atlantic, we live in a culture [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Intelligent, But Not Wise</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/intelligent-but-not-wise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/intelligent-but-not-wise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:26:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership development]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4380</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“While many of today’s leaders have lost their way due to  moral and ethical missteps, just as many are facing a dead end due to their inability to see the big picture,” writes Peter Vajda. “These leaders are intelligent, but, unfortunately, not wise.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>The History of Risk</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/the-history-of-risk/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/the-history-of-risk/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 12:54:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Fletcher</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better Management]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[“We need to re-think the culture of risk-taking,” writes John Fletcher. “In today’s bureaucratized and corporate world, individuals rarely suffer any major damage if the risks they take lead to disaster. Heads they win, tails we lose.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>The Six Stages of Ethical Understanding</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/the-six-stages-of-ethical-understanding/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/the-six-stages-of-ethical-understanding/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Business Ethics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Civilized work]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Trust]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No stick-and-carrot,  reward-based system of ethics ever works for long. Rewards lose their value and people find ways to avoid the punishments. True ethics arises when people take the time to think and question what what standards are needed for a civilized society.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>Is &#8216;Mean&#8217; the New &#8216;Nice&#8217;?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/is-mean-the-new-nice/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/is-mean-the-new-nice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:22:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Corporate culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hamburger Management]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4371</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We have lived through the age of ‘nice’: the phony smile, the smarmy front hiding the crook within, the welcome into the crocodile‘s lair of cheap credit and ‘can’t fail’ investments. Now, says Jonathan Littman, we’re about to enter an age of Serious Mean.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>What&#8217;s Your Label?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/whats-your-label/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/whats-your-label/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 12:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Perspective]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Seeing clearly]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[ Just as the labels we apply to others can prevent us from seeing them clearly or appreciating their strengths and value, so the labels you learn to apply to yourself will limit and block your understanding of your own strengths and potential.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>A World of Isolation</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/a-world-of-isolation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/a-world-of-isolation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:07:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Quality of life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4311</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“When relationships are replaced by electronic interactions, emotional connection—the human factor that creates true relationships—goes missing,” writes Peter Vajda. Are you short-changing others when it comes to relationships?]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>How You Live Matters, Not What You Do For a Living</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/how-you-live-matters-not-what-you-do-for-a-living/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/how-you-live-matters-not-what-you-do-for-a-living/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:43:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Authenticity]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4298</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Leadership is mostly a matter of perspective,” writes Richard E. Goldman. “Are you always looking up the ladder to see who's above you? Instead of worrying where everyone else is, try to reconcile yourself with the possibility that you are in the right place, making the absolute best of the resources you have available to you on that day.”]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/how-you-live-matters-not-what-you-do-for-a-living/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>In Praise of Non-conformity</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 12:35:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coyote's Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Creativity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The evidence that conformity has brought us nearly to economic and financial ruin is overwhelming. Yet people still do it. Why, since the benefits of making your own decisions and choosing your own path through life are both obvious and logical?]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/in-praise-of-non-conformity/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Crucial Conversations</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/crucial-conversations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/crucial-conversations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:51:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Books]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Self-preservation]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4258</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“Crucial conversations” are the kind of tough, day-to-day interactions with people in which the stakes are high, there are conflicting viewpoints and emotions run deep and strong. Can you handle them? Here's some help.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>Eternity&#8217;s Sunrise</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/eternitys-sunrise/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/eternitys-sunrise/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Coyote's Journal]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Featured post]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Attitudes]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/eternitys-sunrise/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Our tendency to grab and hold on—to acquire for the sake of acquisition—virtually ensures that we kill what we most desire. Once you give up the need to ‘own’ what you love, the world is infinite.  Stop clinging, even to the best of it. Leave it free to produce a new generation of similar joys. ]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>4</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Question of Patience</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/a-question-of-patience/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/a-question-of-patience/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2009 12:38:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Vajda</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Balance]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4224</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“There’s plenty of evidence impatience causes us to spend inordinate amounts of time and energy repairing, re-working and re-doing what we did when we were impatient,” Peter Vajda writes. “Sadly, we live in a culture of ‘hurry up’. We act as if delay spells d-e-a-t-h. Why not try the alternative?”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Salvation, Sabotage or Suicide?</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/salvation-sabotage-or-suicide/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/salvation-sabotage-or-suicide/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 12:16:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Author</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better Management]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/?p=4150</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[“We cannot persist with ‘business as usual’ and avoid sabotaging our future and risking corporate suicide,” writes read Bay Jordan.  “Only getting away from the old-fashioned, accountants' attitude to people as costs can offer salvation.”]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>Risk, Bravado and Their Consequences</title>
		<link>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/risk-bravado-and-their-consequences/</link>
		<comments>http://www.slowleadership.org/blog/2009/06/risk-bravado-and-their-consequences/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 12:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Carmine Coyote</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Success]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many leaders don’t accept how bad they are at understanding the risks they undertake. If they did, they could do something about it. Instead they do what all macho managers do to avoid admitting a weakness—resort to mindless bravado.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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