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		<title>Leadership Insight</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Position Doesn’t Make a Leader Owning a Formula-1 vehicle doesn&#8217;t make you a racing driver. And having an Executive title doesn’t make you a leader. Leadership is not caught or inherited. The quandary for many people in leadership positions is suspecting you need this development but thinking it is weakness to acknowledge. The opposite is [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2012/01/27/leadership-insight/</link>
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		<title>A Leader’s Perspective on Recruitment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When an average role costs up to 3 times the annual salary to replace, and a senior role costs up to 10 times the annual salary to replace – hiring is a big deal. A new level of thinking around recruitment is vital to ensure your hiring dollar is working hard. 1.       Does the person [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2012/01/25/a-leaders-perspective-on-recruitment/</link>
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		<title>Where Business Thinkers Learn Their Lessons</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What has Henry IV and Frog and Toad got to do with leading Business Thinkers? As it turns out, a lot! A December article in the Wall Street Journal reports on what books a group of business leaders make their must-read lists. What I always find interesting is the way the mob of budding business [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2012/01/11/where-business-thinkers-learn-their-lessons/</link>
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		<title>Emotional Intelligence Generates Profits</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Term Gaining More Attention today is ‘Emotional Intelligence&#8217; “All learning has an emotional base” &#8211; Plato Emotional Intelligence &#8211; or ‘EI’ &#8211; is described as &#8220;the capacity for recognizing our own feelings and those of others, for motivating ourselves, and for managing emotions well in ourselves and in our relationships”.[1] It describes abilities distinct from, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2012/01/09/emotional-intelligence-generates-profits/</link>
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		<title>The Key to Amazing Sales Success 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The vital quality leaders must cultivate in teams is Hope and Creativity. This is critical around Sales. If 2011 fell short of your goals or you want a new level of outcomes in 2012, this Key is for you. Through 2011 I exercised an attitude of gratitude. It was also a tough year, not an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2012/01/03/the-key-to-amazing-sales-success-2012/</link>
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		<title>&#8216;Babe in the City&#8217; &#8211; a skit for Christmas 2011</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Christmas in..(pick any village)&#8221; An update on a skit I jotted in Christmas &#8217;08 amongst heavy, dense traffic &#8211; the Year of &#8216;Sex in the City&#8217; Two young people trudging and tired&#8230;..a tanned young man and his sweet and heavily pregnant young wife. Joseph rocks up to hotel after hotel. The village is packed to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2011/12/22/babe-in-the-city-a-skit-for-christmas-2011/</link>
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		<title>Top Cause for Leadership Failure</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What really causes leaders to fail?
Is it your previous experiences, motivation to lead, educational background...or something else?]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2011/12/02/top-cause-for-leadership-failure/</link>
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		<title>Reflections on Personal Leadership</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Steve Jobs’ passing has inspired a wave of reflection on visionary leadership;  I also honour him. This is a timely opportunity to each reflect on our personal leadership.  An article in my &#8220;United for Change” LinkedIn Group this morning sparked my following thoughts, which I deliberately write in first person&#8230;. The trick with personal leadership [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2011/10/13/reflections-on-personal-leadership/</link>
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		<title>The Risks of Losing Sight of Your Vision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Growth is the goal but it brings new pressures. Does your leadership team have what it takes to keep the vision alive, compelling and relevant as the organization changes shape? In a May 2011 article in Gallup Management Journal, Tom Rieger warns of the dangers of internal barriers arising in organizations. Parochialism is the base [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2011/08/14/the-risks-of-losing-sight-of-your-vision/</link>
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		<title>Purpose and Productivity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What Has Purpose to do with Productivity? In his book, In Pursuit of Purpose,  Dr Myles Munroe, OBE &#8211; Business Consultant to governments, Fortune 500 companies and corporations and internationally best selling author &#8211; said: “Purpose is the master of motivation and the mother of commitment. It is the source of enthusiasm and the womb [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://lateralinsights.com.au/2011/08/13/purpose-and-productivity/</link>
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