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		<title>Top 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Top 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times&#8230;
Did you stick with me through all the leadership tips I provided? Have you applied any of these? Let me know with a comment below. I would love your feedback.
Visit my web page at 
TheLeadershipResource.com to get the full leadership article.
To empowering passionate leadership in you!

Susan
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		<title>Leadership Tip 7 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:01:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 7 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Stay Focused!
One of the most important notions for anyone to embrace is that life is a marathon.  Steady, incremental progress will ensure success.  Empowered leaders recognize that even an economic downturn is not a signal that the race is over.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 6 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 6 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Be a Sounding Board for Those Airing Grievances, but Re-Direct Their Negativity
A leader who is open, up front, available, accessible and communicative does incur some inherent risk.  The honest and forthright leader may become a target for all sorts of negativity during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 5 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 21:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 5 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Stay Visible (Ostriches Not Welcome)
Some of the darkest times endured during modern history were the days and weeks and years that marked WWII.  But Americans’ spirits were buoyed by the regular and frequent communication of then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt.  These “fireside [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 4 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 4 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Be Willing to Forego Your Popularity
Adulation is an intoxicating elixir.  It is so empowering, that it often masks the symptoms of bad leadership and can make uncovering a problem almost impossible.  But popularity should never be mistaken for success.  Impassioned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 3 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 23:35:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 3 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Be Patient Without Sacrificing Your Will to Succeed

It is a natural human inclination to want to jump off of the perceived “sinking ship” in order to survive.  As we see friends, colleagues, and departments leave or be forced out, often our own [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 2 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is Leadership Tip 2 of 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Open Up! – Not Just Your Ears, but Your Heart and Your Mind as well
Most modern companies have found success by constantly tweaking their tried and true methods until they developed the most productive and efficient way to create their deliverable.  However, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Tip 1 for Managing Difficult Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Feb 2009 23:40:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So times are difficult! Your energy level and your commitment maybe wavering between why should I bother and it won&#8217;t make a difference anyway. Let me offer 7 Leadership Tips for Managing Difficult Times.
Difficult times are when we can be noticed; when new opportunities can show up without us even asking for them; when we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership in 2009</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jan 2009 02:12:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Are you glad 2008 is over? Ready to move on&#8230;
I am sure that Rick Wagner, GM CEO, Henry Paulson, Treasury Secretary, Angelo Mozilo, Former Countrywide CEO - just to name a few well known folks representing leadership in the workplace - are ready to move on!
2008 was definitely a year full of examples of misguided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Values</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 23:27:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Let’s examine our own decision making in the workplace.  We are faced with multiple challenges everyday that require judgment, wisdom, and fairness.  Nothing is ever simple and easy, and almost nothing is ever exactly as it seems.  So often, the heart of the issue is only partially visible as if we are [...]]]></description>
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