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		<title>A Season of Inspiration &#8211; Part I</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 15:06:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Fall is a time for reflection, not just about business, but about life.About what is meaningful, vital and important.About what is useful, what can be...Take the time.... to watch the leaves.Fall is.... a Season of Inspiration.(Photo Credit: Thanks to ...]]></description>
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		<title>Six Disciplines Tampa Partners With Link To Expert</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Link to Expert proudly announces that its Web portal offering professionals an exclusive, global destination for business collaborations, has partnered with Six Disciplines Tampa, a licensed team of coaches offering strategic advisory services.The part...]]></description>
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		<title>How Management Consultants Can Establish a Strategy Execution Practice</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Watch this slidecast by veteran CEO, Gary Harpst, on the opportunity that management consulting firms have for adding a strategy execution service to their practice.Establishing A Strategy Execution Practice]]></description>
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		<title>Change Initiatives Directly Affect Employee Engagement</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Oct 2009 11:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to a recent global study by Right Management, 94% of employees who report that change was not handled well in their organizations - are disengaged.Drawing from research of 28,000 employees in 15 countries, Right Management's key findings from...]]></description>
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		<title>On Leadership and Training Others to be Leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During a recent podcast interview, Six Disciplines' CEO Gary Harpst was interviewed by Jim Blasingame (The Small Business Advocate) about one of the key traits of a true leader: the ability to train and encourage others to be leaders.Listen to this pod...]]></description>
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		<title>The Five Reasons Strategies Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights in conjunction with the Association for Strategic Planning and the Council of Public Relations Firms, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons....]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Planning &#8211;  &#8216;Tis the Season (Already?)</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 11:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following article was written by Eric Kurjan, President of Six Disciplines Northwest Ohio. Six Disciplines brings “big company” process improvement to organizations looking to break beyond the status quo. For more information visit www.SixDisci...]]></description>
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		<title>Strategic Planning Retreats &#8211; Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:49:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's officially Fall in the U.S., and it's time for organizations to start thinking about this years' approach to the strategic planning retreat.For your convenience, here's a collection of the "best of" posts from Be Excellent related to strategic pla...]]></description>
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		<title>Deming&#8217;s Fourteen Points of Quality Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 13:01:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[W. Edwards Deming was a supreme practitioner of quality management.He summarized his ideas in these Fourteen Points of Quality Management:Create constancy of purpose towards improvement. That means short-term out, long-term in. Adopt the new philosophy...]]></description>
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		<title>Executing Your Strategy: Avoiding The Epic Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:20:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With all the bad news bombarding us daily, it's time to get control over the things we can do, and do everything we can during times of uncertainty, to avoid the epic fail.To wit, here's a short refresher on why companies fail:Failure to understand the...]]></description>
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