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81.	A 12-Step Recovery Program to Break from the Pack—Step 2: Take a Risk on Risk By Oren Harari Jul 27, 2007 Do you need to reassess risk and then take a prudent risk on risk?
82.	A 12-Step Recovery Program to Break from the Pack—Step 1: First, Admit You're a Commodity By Oren Harari Jul 20, 2007 Inspire your people to do extraordinary, break-from-the-pack things.
83.	Leadership Lesson: Shiny Objects And Other Distractions By Lonnie Pacelli Jul 13, 2007 Constantly distracted by "shiny objects" at work? Oooh, look! A funny video on YouTube!
84.	Evaluating Your Next New Boss By David Christiansen Jul 6, 2007 It's up to you to pick the right next ex-boss.
85.	Babbling Is for Babies, Not Interviews By Lonnie Pacelli May 11, 2007 Can you respond with crisp, concise, thoughtful answers during an interview?
86.	Free Your Colleagues from Chronic Suffering: How to Eliminate Meeting Madness By Dick Lyles Apr 27, 2007 Are meetings driving you crazy? Let Dick Lyles, co-author of Achieve Leadership Genius, share a few "neat" tips about how to restore sanity and productivity to your meetings.
87.	Make the Most of the White Space in Your Business Day By Vince Thompson Apr 20, 2007 We all have parts of our job that are not completely defined. We all also have time in our day that’s unaccounted for—white space in our daily calendar that’s prime for opportunity. Vince Thompson explains why using this time to explore your passions is good for business.
88.	Drive a Tight Agenda, Don't Let It Drive You By Lonnie Pacelli Feb 23, 2007 An effective agenda goes beyond start time, location, topics, and durations. Effective agendas support the meeting purpose, set the expectations of attendees as to what will be discussed, inform attendees of any preparation that will be required prior to the meeting, give the meeting leader a roadmap for driving the agenda, permit adequate time to cover each item, and allow the meeting leader to adjust the agenda easily if the meeting gets behind schedule.
89.	Great Communicators Can Be Made By Lonnie Pacelli Feb 9, 2007 Courage. Conviction. Wisdom. Clarity. Credibility. Five attributes that are essential, regardless of whether you are speaking in front of hundreds of people, writing a report to your boss, or running a PTA board meeting. Five attributes that build the foundation of someone who gets his or her point across effectively.
90.	One Less Meeting Gets You Home in Time for Dinner By Lonnie Pacelli Jan 26, 2007 Some meetings are necessary, beneficial and effective. Then again, there are those that are a total waste of time. The million dollar question then becomes, “How do you keep the beneficial meetings and eliminate the wastes of time?” Lonnie Pacelli offers several situations where meetings are generally more appropriate than doing through other means.
91.	Don't Let a Challenge Stall Your Business: 5 Tips for Staying on Track By Lonnie Pacelli Jan 12, 2007 Without challenges, your business would cease to exist. However, just as your customers' needs change over time, so do your business's. In order to stay in the game for the long haul, you need to find new ways to satisfy your customers, improve the efficiency of your processes, and maintain a healthy profit margin. This leadership article outlines five simple tips for keeping to your mission and not losing focus.
92.	We Found a Rock Star! Hiring the Best of the Best By Lonnie Pacelli Dec 29, 2006 Finding the right candidate for a job can be highly frustrating for both managers and recruiters. If you wait too long, the work will keep piling up and your management may start thinking you can get along without the position. Pull the trigger too soon and you risk hiring a candidate that does not fit in the organization. Get six tips to help you hire the best of the best.
93.	Protect and Grow Your Wealth By Stuart E. Lucas Dec 22, 2006 Money, family, and community are invariably bound together as part of a wealth management strategy, says Stuart Lucas. This article shares principles that he has learned through years of hard work as a financial industry insider.
94.	Working Through Language, Time, and Cultural Differences By Karen N. Johnson Dec 22, 2006 Working with people in different cities and countries can be challenging as you plan meetings and phone calls across potentially multiple time zones. The greater the physical distance between people, the more likely that a language or cultural difference exists as well. Karen N. Johnson identifies time tools and provides insights into bridging the gaps across time, language, and cultural differences, offering tips from both a coworker's and a manager's perspective.
95.	Introduction to Technical Analysis By Julie R. Dahlquist, Charles D. Kirkpatrick Dec 15, 2006 Technical analysis is the study of past market data to make trading or investing decisions. In their introduction to their book on technical analysis, the authors explain how technical analysis can be useful and provide you with background, basic tools, and techniques that you will need to be a competent technical analyst.
96.	When Are You Coming Home? Five Practical Tips to Realizing Work/Life Balance By Lonnie Pacelli Dec 15, 2006 If you’ve been in the business world since the mid 1990s you’ve likely heard your management espouse the desire for employees to achieve greater work/life balance. Despite all this, Americans are of the most overworked and flat-out busy people on earth, recently surpassing the Japanese and long surpassing the Europeans. Work/life balance starts with you. Get these five crucial tips to help you get on the road to achieving work/life balance in your life.
97.	How to "Huff-and-Puff-Proof" Your Career By Karen Otazo Dec 8, 2006 The third little pig had the right idea. How can you help your career to be made of bricks, not sticks? Follow Karen Otazo's advice on overcoming career obstacles and organizational roadblocks by building a strong "relationship house."
98.	In Search of the "Good-Enough" Leader By Lonnie Pacelli Dec 1, 2006 As leaders, we are constantly faced with deciding which tasks to do and how to apply resources to those tasks. There are rare occasions where stars align and we are able to get everything done exactly the way we want it with the resources given to us. Most of the time, though, we have to decide not only what to do but what not to do. Get six tips to help you be a good-enough leader.
99.	Thirteen Tips to Effective Upward Management By Lonnie Pacelli Nov 17, 2006 Upward management is one of those skills that some do very well, many never seem to master, and virtually all learn only through on-the-job lessons-learned. When done well, both the manager and employee work as a team to ensure each other is informed, address problems before they spin out of control, and be more effective at managing. When done poorly, both manager and employee are not only ineffective at getting the job done but are chronically frustrated due to mis-steps and surprises.
100.	Leading at a Higher Level: Is Your Organization High Performing? By Ken Blanchard Sep 22, 2006 Wall Street and the pressures of business today make many people think that the only target that counts is financial success. Yet few, if any, businesspeople would want their epitaph to include their company’s bottom line. They might, however, want people to remember their contribution to the creation of a high performing organization. Those who want to lead at a higher level need to understand what a high performing organization looks like and what is necessary to create one. Ken Blanchard explains how to achieve a high performing organization.

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