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	<description>helping organizations uncork the creative power of teams</description>
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		<title>Cool Names, Creative Thinking and Humor</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 20:20:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent post Seth Godin wrote: &#8220;Getting smart about naming is at the heart of marketing.&#8221; But how do you come up with a cool name for your product or service? Mike Brown answers that question in a great post on the Brainzooming Blog: Creating Cool Product Names for a New Product Idea – [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Track with de Bono, Six Hats and Creative Thinking</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 20:52:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Good Doctor: Prescriptions for Better Thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t know how my Dad felt about it, but when I was young I loved it when we had to stop at a railroad crossing and watch the trains go by. One time while we were waiting, Dad asked me if I knew what the sign near the track said. I said no, so he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Lemonade – five insights to develop better change leaders</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Apr 2012 17:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[change leadership]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[An insightful article appeared today in the McKinsey Quarterly, Developing Better Change Leaders.  The message of the article is that leadership too often overlooks the &#8220;softer&#8221; skills needed to spread and embed change throughout an organization. Here are some of their insights: Leaders can&#8217;t ask others to change if they&#8217;re not willing to change themselves. Tie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nine Constraints To Innovation &amp; Change</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:04:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Innovation Navigation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation Strategy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Innovation may be the latest business craze, but for most organizations, the achievement of bold innovation targets is difficult. To make matters worse, any one of these nine constraints make the task of innovation more difficult, if not impossible: Lack of a clear innovation strategy. Failure to communicate the innovation strategy throughout the organization. Poor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pink Slime, Leadership and Slime Balls</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/pink-slime-leadership-and-slime-balls/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:17:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Barb Shelly wrote a commentary in the Kansas City Star titled: ‘Pink Slime’ A Product Of Our Cheap-Beef Economy. In that article she quotes Donald D. Stull, a cultural anthropologist at the University of Kansas, saying this about pink slime: “It is interesting to watch how framing really transforms the dialogue. It seems to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Lemons of Leadership – Episode Seven</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do leaders do? According to Robin Ryde in his book, Thought Leadership, leaders talk. In other words, communication is at the heart of being a good leader. &#8220;Crummy Communication&#8221;, the seventh of The Seven Lemons of Leadership, is one of the most serious reasons for failed leadership. In the video that follows, I discuss [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Seven Lemons of Leadership – Episode Two</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-%e2%80%93-episode-two/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/the-seven-lemons-of-leadership-%e2%80%93-episode-two/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2011 05:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first lemon of leadership is NO GOAL/NO SCORE. In this episode we explore why goals are critical to leadership success and present a simple and effective way to approach goal-setting. NB: the price of the lunch box was terribly overstated! One could custom order the lunch boxes for less than $0.50 a piece, which [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brilliant Leadership Is A Picnic!</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/brilliant-leadership-is-a-picnic/</link>
		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/brilliant-leadership-is-a-picnic/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 21:27:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Brilliance Activator blog is all about teamwork, creativity and leadership. On Saturday, I had the chance to experience those rather than merely post about them. Sly James is the new mayor of Kansas City. Instead of holding an inaugural ball, he held an inaugural picnic for city workers and residents! Here&#8217;s what the mayor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Team&#8217;s Past: is it burdensome baggage or a ticket to travel?</title>
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		<comments>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/a-teams-past-is-it-burdensome-baggage-or-a-ticket-to-travel/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2011 11:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re the new leader of a team &#8220;with a history&#8221; (or if you&#8217;ve been leading such a team since it formed), the question is: Is the team&#8217;s past &#8220;burdensome baggage&#8221; or a &#8220;ticket to travel&#8221;? My good friend and colleague John Schuster has just released a new book called The Power of Your Past: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Leaders Lose Their Luster And 3 Ways To Get It Back</title>
		<link>http://www.brillianceactivator.com/brilliance/3-ways-to-add-luster-to-your-leadershi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 01:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chuck Dymer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I pulled a black coffee mug out of my dishwasher and noticed massive white streaks down the sides of the mug. Hard to miss. I then looked at the flatware, dishes and glasses and noticed that they had lost their luster. Although the white streaks on the mug immediately caught my [...]]]></description>
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