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		<title>Greetings from Kristin: Wednesday, October 19</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hello again! I have missed communicating with you through my e-newsletter and wanted you to know, as Mark Twain quipped after reading his obituary in a newspaper, reports of my death are greatly exaggerated.
During the past year, I have been consumed with developing a new service with and for my corporate clients involving the professional [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Increased Self-Knowledge Is like Yeast</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yeast is the ingredient that makes bread rise. Similarly, enhanced self-knowledge is the ingredient in professional development that makes careers rise and allows you to develop to your full potential. The most effective leaders have a high level of insight into themselves: their talents, their weaknesses, their desires, their patterns of thought and reaction. Self-knowledge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Deserve the &#8220;A&#8221; Team</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve recently had opportunities to participate in off-site meetings&#160; of newly formed executive teams.&#160; I’ve been impressed with how the quality of the team members sitting around the table affect the quality of the discussion, and by extension, the quality of the results achieved by the team.&#160; 
My observations support my long-held mantra:&#160; As an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Seven Steps to Creating and Maintaining a Positive Attitude</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether you like it or not, your attitude affects everything you think about, say and do.  Your attitude speaks louder than words; people around you sense your attitude without a grand announcement on your part.  If you do all the “right things” but do them with a poor attitude, people will sense the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brioleadership.com/seven-steps-to-creating-and-maintaining-a-positive-attitude/</link>
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		<title>Greetings from Kristin: Wednesday, July 28</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Our experience of life is tied up with our interpretation of what happens to us. You can look at the glass as half empty or half full.  To live happily or bitterly – that is one of life’s big choices.
You can choose your reaction to whatever experience you have, and in that lies the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Creative Power of Mental Rehearsals</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The sports world recently thrilled to the amazing performance of Phil Mickelson winning the Masters Golf Tournament in Augusta, Georgia. Beside the fact that Mickelson presents a family-friendly contrast to his fallen-from-grace chief competitor, Tiger Woods, Mickelson’s victory offers a lesson in the power of the mind in both sports competition and in business. As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, May 6</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We see it everywhere: the power of your mind to create amazing outcomes.  I recently returned from a weekend vacation in New York City, where my husband and I enjoyed the culture, food, sights and sounds of that exciting city.  In everything we did – from the tour of the United Nations to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thursday, April 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week is a holy one for many religions &#8211; both Easter and Passover are being celebrated. In addition, spring has officially begun in the northern hemisphere, and we turn our faces to the growing light and warmth in our world.  What better time to think about incorporating ethics and values into our organizations [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brioleadership.com/thursday-april-1/</link>
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		<title>Actions Speak Louder than Words: Five Ways To Embed Values Into Your Culture</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.” This is true for individuals as well as companies.  It speaks directly to the danger in defining organizational values and then failing to align your actions with the values. If the behavior and actions of the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.brioleadership.com/actions-speak-louder-than-words-five-ways-to-embed-values-into-your-culture/</link>
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		<title>Tuesday, Feb. 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the unemployment rate hovers near 10%, there are many discouraged job seekers. This month’s featured article will give you hope that you can find not only a new job, but one that really resonates with your heart’s desires.
As I coach and mentor job seekers and corporate executives, I realize again the power of thoughts [...]]]></description>
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