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		<title>Coaching Breakthrough &#8211; First Steps</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 13:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Earl R. Smith II Managing Partner, The Federal Circle DrSmith@Dr-Smith.com Dr-Smith.com In this series I have been writing about some of the major breakthroughs that my coaching clients have managed. While it is true that most of my coaching work involves slow and steady efforts towards major successes, it&#8217;s those successes that make the <a href='http://www.dr-smith.info/coaching-breakthrough-steps/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>The CEO’s Handbook Series is Available As Kindle Books on Amazon</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 12:43:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am pleased to announce that The CEO’s Handbook Series is Available As Kindle Books on Amazon. Here are the links: // // // ]]&#62; The CEO’s Handbook &#8211; Volume One: Notes for a Thinking Chief Executive The CEO’s Handbook Volume Two: Business Development The CEO’s Handbook &#8211; Volume Three: Getting Funded by Angel Investors <a href='http://www.dr-smith.info/ceo%e2%80%99s-handbook-series-kindle-books-amazon/'>[...]</a>]]></description>
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		<title>Business Development and Failure to Launch</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2011 02:58:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the major challenges that a CEO faces comes when it becomes necessary to build a business development capability beyond that of the core operating team. The challenge reemerges when that capability needs to be expanded. In fact, it is one of the most regularly recurring challenges. More of that later. But, for now, let’s start with the first time.]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Accountability – The Core of Failure &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 14:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of reason why a business fails - but one is particularly insidious. Failure that results from not being held accountable for your actions and their results is an unnecessary call to a futile end.]]></description>
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		<title>Lack of Accountability – The Core of Failure &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 16:57:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, I was recently invited by three different investors to ‘take a look’ at companies that they had invested in. The pattern that I found was so strikingly similar that I set to thinking about what I was finding. I began to think about the roots of the pattern. The more I thought about it, the more I found myself staring at one of the principal reasons that only one in ten start-up companies make it to their fifth anniversary.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the Tale – Part Five</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Mar 2011 20:27:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the first part of this series, I described the call I received from a stakeholder to ‘assess the situation’ at a company that he had invested in. My conclusion was that there were five areas that needed attention. First, based on past modest success, hubris had flowered in the senior management team. Second, without a well vetted strategic plan, the value proposition of the company had become diffuse. Third, the growth of the company had produced two distinct cultures - the traditionalists and the futurists - and these cultures were increasingly at war. In this part I would like to turn to the fourth area - one that, more than any of the others, lies close to the root causes of the difficulties that the company is facing.]]></description>
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		<title>Truth and Complexity &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 15:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent conference call with a bunch of my investor friends the conversation focused on the basis for deciding. We grappled with a variation of the old question ‘how do I know that this thing is true’. We had all known each other for a very long time, so there was little posturing - and, when it did show up, it was slapped down directly. Nobody was allowed to claim either omnipotence or omniscience.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the Tale – Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Feb 2011 02:55:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently working with the senior team of a mid-sized government contractor. They had built the company nicely to just over thirty-million dollars in annual revenue. The customer base was tight and well focused. They had good client intimacy and acceptable pipeline velocity. An initiative to move into a new agency seemed to be going well. From the outside, the company looked fin]]></description>
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		<title>Truth and Complexity</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Feb 2011 17:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent conference call with a bunch of my investor friends the conversation focused on the basis for deciding. We grappled with a variation of the old question ‘how do I know that this thing is true’. We had all known each other for a very long time, so there was little posturing - and, when it did show up, it was slapped down directly. Nobody was allowed to claim either omnipotence or omniscience.]]></description>
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		<title>Chasing the Tale – Part Four</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the second of this series I described how the flowering of hubris had damaged a company’s prospects. The third focused on the effects of an increasingly diffuse value proposition. Both of these had combined to increase pressure on management and cause stakeholders to begin to worry about the future of the company. Now I would like to turn to yet another problem area that had developed and was exacerbated as a result of the first two.]]></description>
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