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	<title>Dr. Earl R. Smith II &#187; Leadership</title>
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		<title>Improve Your Leadership Skills &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 14:23:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good leadership is always part nature and part nurture. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are continually leading yourself and others. The question is “how good are you at it?” The good news is that, with focus and effort, you can improve your leadership skills and get more out of life.]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Your Leadership Skills &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 02:09:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good leadership is always part nature and part nurture. Whether you are aware of it or not, you are continually leading yourself and others. The question is “how good are you at it?” The good news is that, with focus and effort, you can improve your leadership skills and get more out of life. Here are some things you might think about in your effort to become a more effective leader:]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership – The Fire of the Mind &#8211; Part Two</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 15:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There is a second characteristic of enlightened leadership that I would like to highlight. At a recent Potomac Officers Club event, Bob Woodward told a story about a lunch he had with Katharine Graham. The Watergate articles had begun to draw fire from the administration. The Post had, in deciding to back its reporters, put its journalistic reputation on the line. The situation was tense. The two of them sat down to lunch in Mrs. Graham’s private dining room. The first question she asked was “when are we going to learn the truth about what really went on?” As Woodward told it, he answered “probably never”. Katharine Graham looked at him intently and said “don’t ever tell me never”. Bob “left the luncheon a highly motivated man”.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership – The Fire of the Mind &#8211; Part One</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 15:11:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am often struck by how many successful leaders are also highly effective teachers … and struck even more by how the lessons that they teach result in changed lives and kindled, or rekindled, fires. The teams they build often set themselves apart with superior performance and seemingly impossible accomplishments.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and Literature</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:12:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are lots of discussions about what makes a good leader. Many focus on character issues like integrity, honesty, openness or charisma. Others talk about skill sets like communication, literacy, technical capabilities or understanding of finance.]]></description>
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		<title>Executive Coaching Means Putting Your Key People on Their A-Game</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:28:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last decade has seen a major shift in attitude towards executive coaching. Ten years ago the most likely engagement would have been with a client who was having serious problems. Organizations tended to hire executive coaches when one or more of their people was either having or causing serious problems.]]></description>
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		<title>The Other Side of the Coin</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:02:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent coaching engagement, I came to realize that a CEO I was working with had a tendency to accentuate the negative. She was heavily committed to building her first successful business – driven to the point of almost maniacal focus on correcting the mistakes of her team.]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and Descartes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 15:16:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I described two approaches to leadership. They were based on two recent conversations with 'leaders'. Out of those conversations came two different approaches to answering the question 'what makes you a leader'.]]></description>
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		<title>The Essence of Leadership</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 02:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Given all the articles, book, lectures and discussions about leadership, you might hope that CEOs - particularly young ones - might have some idea about what it means to be a leader and, more particularly, what it means for them to be a leader.]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons in Leadership &#8211; Part 2 &#8211; Vision Mapping</title>
		<link>http://www.dr-smith.info/lessons-in-leadership-part-2-vision-mapping/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 22:09:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dr. Earl R. Smith II</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders are supposed to have a vision that will guide the team towards victory - at least that is what is taught in the post-Fordist focused classes in most MBA programs. This is particularly true in the entrepreneurial parts of those curriculum.]]></description>
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