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		<title>12 Things Happy People Do Differently</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Jan 2012 00:14:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Jacob Sokol - “I’d always believed that a life of quality, enjoyment, and wisdom were my human birthright and would be automatically bestowed upon me as time passed. I never suspected that I would have to learn how to live &#8211; that there were specific disciplines and ways of seeing the world I had [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Sony Pictures Gets More Out of People by Demanding Less</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tony Schwartz - The way most of us work isn’t working. Study after study has shown that companies are experiencing a crisis in employee engagement. A 2007 Towers Perrin survey of nearly 90,000 employees worldwide, for instance, found that only 21% felt fully engaged at work and nearly 40% were disenchanted or disengaged. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tax Cuts, Less-Intrusive Gov&#8217;t Help Canada Soar</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 16:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Economic Freedom]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by IBD Editorials - Success: Away from the low growth and high regulation of an America under Washington&#8217;s thumb, our northern neighbor is economically strong. As 2011 ends, Canada has announced yet another tax cut — and will soar even more. The Obama administration and its economic czars have flailed about for years, baffled about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw &#8216;Em All Out&#8230;And Good Riddance!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 18:38:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by J.R. Dunn - Crony capitalism is the most serious current danger to the American community, a threat not simply to government or the economy, but to our very way of life. It is the worst such threat since the trusts and monopolies of the early 20th century, and in much the same way. Cronyism [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Creation Is No Mystery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2011 02:04:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Tom McClintock - The government&#8217;s continuing failure to address our nation&#8217;s gut-wrenching unemployment stems from a fundamental disagreement over how jobs are created in the first place. We are now in the third year of policies predicated on the assumption that government spending creates jobs. We have squandered three years and trillions of dollars [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Innovating in a Culture of Convergence</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 21:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Branding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Michelle Greenwald - How exactly do we define innovation? While it&#8217;s probably the most overused term in business today, innovation is not a fad. It&#8217;s not even new. What differentiates a smart innovation—and makes it worth writing about—is that it has the capability of moving a business forward in ways that can result in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do the Incompetent Rise to the Top? Peter Principle Revisited</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 21:47:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Ronald E. Riggio, Ph.D. - How and why do incompetent people rise to the top? Why are there so many incompetent leaders? Is your boss less than competent? How about that department head in accounting or HR that doesn&#8217;t know his/her job? How in the world do incompetent people rise to the top in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Dwolla &#8211; New Payment System Sidesteps Credit Cards</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:43:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Alyson Shontell - There&#8217;s a tiny 12-person startup churning out of Des Moines, Iowa. Dwolla was founded by 28-year-old Ben Milne; it&#8217;s an innovative online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Milne has no finance background yet his little operation is moving between $30 and $50 million per month; it&#8217;s on track to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Good Does Design Do For Business?</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/11/what-good-does-design-do-for-business/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 18:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Thomas Lockwood - Have you noticed how similar some products are becoming? A Tesla and a Lotus, that’s an easy one. But I’m talking about the similarities between seemingly disparate objects, like an Audi car and Oakley sunglasses, a 3M stapler and an Alessi teapot, or a Starbucks café and your bank lobby. Consumers [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Lead With Purpose</title>
		<link>http://chrisbanescu.com/blog/2011/11/how-to-lead-with-purpose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 17:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chris Banescu</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneurship]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Vision]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Marla Tabaka - The purpose-driven company is led by someone who has a reliable inner compass guiding them. John Baldoni asks: What&#8217;s your direction? Can you describe the purpose of your business in a single sentence? Do you—and does every single person who is connected with your organization—have a reason to believe in that [...]]]></description>
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