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	<title>The Clarion Call to Leadership!</title>
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	<description>How to Become an Outstanding Leader</description>
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		<title>Likeability: It&#8217;s an Inside Job</title>
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Except for functional sociopaths, everyone wants to be liked. Yet, despite this innate desire to be liked, we often, unwittingly, behave in ways that make us unlikeable. There are many dictionary definitions of likeability but my favorite comes from author Tim Sanders who describes likeability as “an ability to create positive attitudes in other people.”


The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=486</link>
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		<title>Forgiveness: The Intelligent Choice</title>
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Long ago, Aristotle said: “The energy of the mind is the essence of  life.”  Today, there is a great deal of research on the importance of  managing our energy for optimal performance in every area of our lives. We know  that emotions play a pivotal role in harnessing or depleting mind [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=475</link>
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		<title>Hope: Don&#8217;t Leave Home Without It</title>
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“The force multiplier throughout history,” write Gallup research veterans Bruce J. Avolio and Fred Luthans, “has often been attributed to the leader&#8217;s ability to generate hope.&#8221;Leaders are purveyors of hope. With the unease caused by the Great Recession, it is easy to spiral into a negative state of mind and ignore the promising signs that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=435</link>
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		<title>Get Inside Your Head: How Knowing Your Brain Can Make You a Better Leader</title>
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“Your capacity to regulate emotions,” says David Rock “is absolutely essential to success in life.” Managing our emotions is crucial because it allows us to use our brain more efficiently. When our limbic system, also known as the emotional brain, is overly aroused, it de-activates our prefrontal cortex which handles higher order thinking such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=413</link>
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		<title>Intelligent Disobedience</title>
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I once worked for a technology company that encouraged employees to practice what they called “Intelligent Disobedience.” The concept originates from Seeing Eye dogs: while dogs must learn to obey the commands of a blind person, they must also know when they need to disobey commands that can put the owner in harm’s way, such [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=389</link>
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		<title>Are You Talking to Me? Rx for Extraverts and Introverts.</title>
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George Bernard Shaw said: “The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred.” Nowhere is this statement more applicable than when considering the issue of introverts and extraverts communicating in the workplace. Each of these two solitudes faces particular challenges and the entire communication process can be emotionally draining for both [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Firewall for Bad Moods: How to Prevent Emotional Contagion</title>
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See if you can watch this popular video clip without feeling good. It’s almost impossible not to be influenced by the joyful emotions we are witnessing. Brain scientists have proven what we have sensed intuitively: that emotions are contagious. They infect not only individuals but entire groups.
While both positive and negative emotions are contagious, negative [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=295</link>
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		<title>The Pursuit of Flow</title>
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There is a scene in the movie “The Hustler”, where Fast Eddie, played by Paul Newman, says: “It&#8217;s a great feeling, boy, it&#8217;s a real great feeling when you&#8217;re right and you KNOW you&#8217;re right. It&#8217;s like all of a sudden I got oil in my arm. The pool cue is a part of me. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Gandhi&#8217;s Neurons: The Practice of Empathy</title>
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“If there is any one secret of success,” said Henry Ford, “it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from his angle as well as your own.” This is empathy. Not an easy undertaking, even though scientists have now proven that we are indeed wired for empathy. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.increaseyoureq.com/blog/?p=214</link>
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		<title>Twelve Resolutions on How to be a Mensch</title>
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Here are my thoughts on how to be a Mensch in 2010. I hope they inspire you in your life&#8217;s journey.
I am blessed that Guy Kawasaki posted my article in his American Express Open Forum site and that so many of Guy&#8217;s followers tweeted the article to their network. We need to spread the concept [...]]]></description>
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