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		<title>Leadership behavior styles in Asia</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Culture clearly plays a part in leadership and how it is expressed in different places.  People who live or move within different cultures encounter these differences and know they are real; the words to accurately describe or understand the differences, however, are often lacking.  We resort to general observations or broad-brush statements that are riddled [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top talent in China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Companies doing business in China face several challenges today.*  On the macro level they face the ongoing global financial instability, questionable consumer demand for their goods (especially in export markets), price pressure from competitors, and the uncertainties of government policy.  Weighing these factors, the dynamic market in China is still a vibrant place to do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strategy-driven organizations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;We&#8217;re so busy putting out fires and trying to keep the business going that strategy just doesn&#8217;t show up on the screen.  We seem to drift a lot,&#8221; one leader confided in me.  I could relate because I&#8217;ve been part of an organization that couldn&#8217;t maintain a strategic focus.   We had flavor-of-the-month and reliably we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Instruments, measures and backups</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Question:  What are the three critical numbers you use to manage your business?  As a leader, what&#8217;s your backup system (or at least your plan) when the game suddenly changes? I&#8217;ll get to that question in a minute, but first let me share a personal story.  I continue to be surprised by some of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A mark of great leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You know that sucking sound you hear?  It&#8217;s caused by the vacuum of leadership we continue to experience. At this exact time in history we continue to muddle through the mess we&#8217;re in and there is an absence of leadership to show us the way forward. Is that too bleak?  I&#8217;m not a pessimist even [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Personal development &#8220;in the Arena&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We remember today a speech given 100 years ago in Paris by Theodore Roosevelt at the Sorbonne one year after he left the presidency.  The larger speech was about Citizenship in a Republic, and the most quoted section talked about the man in the arena.  Many people have borrowed the words or echoed the sentiment, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Best-Kept Leadership Secrets Are Out in the Open</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the best writers on leadership is one you’ve never heard of.  If I told you a few of the titles you still wouldn’t recognize who I&#8217;m referencing.  Yet Peter Drucker, the Father of Modern Management, liked to tell his students that the reason he never wrote a book on leadership was because the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.develop-top-talent.com/leadership/the-best-kept-leadership-secrets-are-out-in-the-open</link>
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		<title>Key truths of leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are plenty of myths about what leadership is.  What can we say is true about real leadership? We learn some of the truths of leadership by listening to people who are great practitioners of the art of leading people.   1.  Leadership is not about the leader. There are plenty of narcissistic &#8220;leaders&#8221; who have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.develop-top-talent.com/leadership/key-truths-of-leadership</link>
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		<title>Myths and truths of leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;In days of yore when giants walked the earth&#8230;&#8221;  that would be a dead giveaway that we aren&#8217;t talking about the real world and what follows is probably mythic, legendary or a parody of some kind.  What&#8217;s strange is that so much that is accepted as &#8220;truth&#8221; or wisdom about leadership is actually not grounded [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.develop-top-talent.com/leadership/myths-and-truths-of-leadership</link>
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		<title>Top talent and the money game &#8211; 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a year ago we looked at Wall Street&#8217;s approach to retaining top talent through outsized compensation packages.  Consider this the latest installment in that saga.  The most recent news is that CEO and C-level executive compensation took a large cut last year, while the traders and money managers received the largest collective payout in [...]]]></description>
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