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	<title>Reading for Leading</title>
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		<title>Leading in Tough Times 5 - Do BEST What You Do Often</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
On the Everyday Leadership radio show our goal is to “make work work.”  A waitress wanted advice and said: my clientele is changing, less people are eating out, and tips are down . . . but, she added, I know you can’t help me with that.  A distant bell was ringing in my head, about [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/07/leading-in-tough-times-5-do-best-what-you-do-often/</link>
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		<title>Leading in Tough Times 4 - Problem into Opportunity - Graffiti or Art?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Challenging times.  Somber stuff.  I was going to write about three types of folks challenged by layoffs:  the one receiving the bad news, the one delivering the bad news, and the workers left behind.  A core message was to be this:  stay open to rebirth and deep purpose.  Then I came to Philly.
We’re here for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/07/leading-in-tough-times-4-problem-into-opportunity-graffiti-or-art/</link>
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		<title>Leading in Tough Times 3 - fundamentals for leading with authority</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Are you in, or have you been in, a system under great pressure, facing overwhelming challenges?  If so, tell me if your experience has been like mine:
In systems – e.g., family, job shop, company, church – where the system’s survival is under stress . . . individuals look out for their own self interest, their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/07/leading-in-tough-times-3-fundamentals-for-leading-with-authority/</link>
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		<title>Leading in Tough Times 2 - You Under Pressure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Last week, with a first RFL in a series on “leadership in times of challenge,” I invited you to consider the possibility that someone’s nutty behavior may be less a product of their individual psychological makeup than the fact that there are unusual pressures in the system.  I gave the example of a teen acting [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/06/leading-in-tough-times-2-you-under-pressure/</link>
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		<title>Everyday Leaders - Leading in Tough Times - First in a series</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Gosh, we had some great calls to the Everyday Leadership Show on Saturday.*  The callers elicited wonderful thoughts and advice from my regular guests, Kathi Elster and Katherine Crowley.**  The economic downturn and hovering uncertainty formed the unmistakable backdrop for the calls.  Groups and individuals act quite differently when the context changes:
* When storm clouds [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/06/everyday-leaders-leading-in-tough-times-first-in-a-series/</link>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the Context for Challenge?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Why don’t we see the importance of challenge in our efforts to motivate others to reach higher levels of productivity and achievement?  I’ve asked this question in prior Reading for Leading columns and asked it of audiences to whom I have spoken.  I have shared the perplexing data from tens of brainstorming sessions:  for every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/06/whats-the-context-for-challenge/</link>
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		<title>Dads and Grads- A Request and an Idea</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I hope you have been finding value in &#8220;Reading for Leading&#8221; - whether you have been getting it every Monday for eight years, or for just eight weeks. With your indulgence, once or twice a year, I go off track a little and seek your help. With Fathers Day coming up and in this graduation [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/06/dads-and-grads-a-request-and-an-idea/</link>
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		<title>Do You Have an I Problem?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I asked my daughter - who’s got her first fulltime job - if she had seen some good or bad leadership this week.  She said a team of people had been working on the solution to a problem, and when the manager came in and asked what ideas they had, one of the people [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/06/do-you-have-an-i-problem/</link>
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		<title>Keep Their Spirit Alive</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Welcome back from Memorial Day.  Sometimes these 4 day weeks put pressure on us to achieve 5 days worth of work.  But before you start churning through it all, you might gather up strength and purpose from Memorial Day.
On Thursday, my wife and General Cutler invited the “families of the fallen” soldiers to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/05/keep-their-spirit-alive/</link>
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		<title>Leader or Whiner</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Would you argue with me if I said that we have become a culture of whiners?  Leaders &#8212; and of course I use that word not to refer to a position, but to a frame of mind and action &#8212; leaders don&#8217;t whine.  And our world needs us to lead.
Whining connotes powerlessness.  And unfortunately it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/05/leader-or-whiner/</link>
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		<title>JUST a Great Case of Everyday Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
I woke up on Mothers Day excited about writing about moms as the archetypal &#8220;everyday leaders.&#8221;  I was going to ask you if these words better described a great mom or a great leader:  they encourage, empower, stimulate collaboration, believe in their people, prepare us for the future, and serve others before themselves.  That&#8217;s mom [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/05/just-a-great-case-of-everyday-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Optimists and Skeptics Look For Results in the Week Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
One of Colin Powell&#8217;s famous guideposts for leadership is, &#8220;perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.&#8221;  I always loved the West Point feeling of it: a &#8220;force multiplier&#8221; sounds so technical and mathematical and militarily strategic.  Snap your fingers: you’re optimistic!  You’re optimistic, your force has doubled!  So today, an example of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/05/optimists-and-skeptics-look-for-results-in-the-week-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Time Will Trick You- Fight Back!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Time plays funny games on you sometimes. Last week I picked up our oldest daughter Kate at the conclusion of her first year in college.  Even though I had seen her &#8212; perhaps 10 times at intervals during this academic year &#8212; it still felt as though I had dropped her off a month ago, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/04/time-will-trick-you-fight-back/</link>
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		<title>Your Responses Last Week Were Like Dynamite</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Last week I wondered aloud with you why no one had addressed the issues in the prior week&#8217;s Reading for Leading, about managing up.  Among the huge number of terrifically intriguing responses, came this one from Tony in Kalamazoo: “Looking at the number of responses this week vs. last week puts me in mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/04/your-responses-last-week-were-like-dynamite/</link>
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		<title>Your Unusual Silence on Managing Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Friends,
Do you make anything of this?  Last Monday I wrote about “managing up.”  I got only 4 blog comments, three of which were random attacks on the Governor that were unrelated to my column.  Typically 15-20 people weigh in.  Then on my radio show this week the topic in the call-in hour was the same: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.danmulhern.com/wordpress/2008/04/your-unusual-silence-on-managing-up/</link>
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