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		<title>Are We Prepared to Innovate?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:07:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s time to stop treating our creative thinkers like kooky grown-up children and start respecting the deep practice and education they bring to their work.  It’s time to become one of them.]]></description>
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		<title>Can &#8220;best practices&#8221; and &#8220;innovation&#8221; co-exist in successful companies?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:25:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join our discussion on the peaceful coexistence of innovation and best practices.]]></description>
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		<title>Competitive Advantage: Small Firm Flexibility vs. Big Firm Sustainability</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:09:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In unstable environments, there is no sustainable competitive advantage, only multiple temporary competitive advantages.  If this is true, small-to-mid-sized firms may be the big earners of our time.]]></description>
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		<title>Team Selection Protocol: Challenge Yourself</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Jul 2009 18:50:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Leon Tonkonogy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is not easy to change our natural inclination to seek out similarity. The process starts with moving away from the unconscious urge to seek for likeness and toward the conscious acceptance of dissimilarity.  In addition to finding team members who differ from you in terms of education, ethnicity, geographic origin, etc., try to also find team members among people that are multidimensional and cross-trained in different areas. These folks possess ‘associative fluency,’ a quality that allows them to make connections about ideas and applications, rather that "tunneling" into specific domains when a wider view is needed.]]></description>
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		<title>Dynamic Leadership: the Yin &amp; Yang of Managing</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:13:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Julia Fischer Baumgartner</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a business owner, you make decisions every day.  You want to see your company grow and succeed.  By staying aware of the potential energy dynamic opposition provides, you make sure you bring all of yourself to your work, leave no stone unturned in your decision making, and model values of learning, discovery and creativity to your entire organization.]]></description>
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