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		<title>A thing that (wordy) leaders can say&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 11:58:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you&#8217;re a leader, you&#8217;re likely an expert on something. If you&#8217;re an expert, people come to you for advice and opinion. And you might find yourself talking and talking and talking. Then, you realize that you&#8217;re talking too much, and listening too little.  You know better, but you&#8217;re stuck.  What can you do? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The leadership opportunity of Caller ID&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 13:22:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes, servant leadership calls for relinquishing power.  Insecure leaders look for opportunities to take power, and we know this on some level. Here&#8217;s an opportunity to let others steer things. Ignore caller ID. Pretend it doesn&#8217;t exist.  This means two things: 1) If you&#8217;re free to answer the phone when it rings, answer it. No [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Good Question&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 May 2012 13:23:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I ate in a London pub with a group once, and the server made a mistake when calculating the bill.  Unfortunately, he didn&#8217;t believe us, and our argument kept escalating.  I got a little, um, animated myself.  He was in the wrong (I have witnesses), but now he had a service issue with an obviously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Leadership Challenge &#8211; Happy Birthday!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:40:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership problems]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Revelatory]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Anniversary to the most important book on leadership on my shelf.  Not only is it compelling, research-based, comprehensive, elegant, immediately applicable, and timeless; it changed my life. Research ought to be relevant, right? So, when it was time to pick a topic for my Master&#8217;s degree paper, it was easy.  I was a band teacher [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leaders Communicate &#8211; that includes responding&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 13:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve heard the word &#8220;wow&#8221; twice recently. 1) &#8220;Wow! Thanks for calling me back!&#8221; Someone called and left a voice mail; he wanted to meet for coffee to visit about the computing support services his company offered.  I called him back an hour later, and I think he was surprised I called back at all. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blog rerun, plus&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alanfeirer.com/blog-rerun-plus</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Apr 2012 22:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Wednesday &#8211; blog day &#8211; two tidbits for you: This rerun. This appearance in the witty and whimsical blog of eigthsevencentral. (It explains a bit about why I&#8217;ve been pretty busy this week&#8230;)]]></description>
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		<title>The Allegory of the Four-Way Stop</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Apr 2012 15:17:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Grace]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Four-way stops are easy, right?  Stop, then take your turn after everyone else has gone. Is it a tie? Person on the right goes first. Easy. No problem. Does everyone totally adhere to The Rules of the Four Way Stop? I bet they think they do. But you&#8217;ve seen these&#8230; -The &#8220;rolling stopper&#8221;&#8230; -The one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resist the temptation&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.alanfeirer.com/resist-the-temptation</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 18:24:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[  In an earlier post, &#8220;Instead of&#8230;&#8221; was presented as an alternative to saying &#8220;Don&#8217;t.&#8221; &#8220;Instead of&#8221; forces you to come up with an alternative action, which is usually good. However, if time is critical, or it&#8217;s not all that consequential, or you can&#8217;t come up with an alternative, try this: &#8220;Resist the temptation to&#8230;&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frame! (kind of a book report)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brilliant folks at Manager Tools&#8211;specifically, Mark&#8211;have recommended this book highly for years.  I read much of it a while ago, and recently picked it up to re-read it. In 300 words, here&#8217;s why it&#8217;s worthy of attention; read at least chapters 1, 2, 16, and 20. (Those chapters recommended by Luther College professor Schweizer &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Where do you get that energy?!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://www.alanfeirer.com/where-do-you-get-that-energy</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Mar 2012 16:31:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[biographical]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[attitude]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.alanfeirer.com/?p=644</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Frequently, people ask me that question.  Those who ask are usually witnessing me in a professional situation; if they saw me after the alarm goes off, there&#8217;s no way they&#8217;d ask that! But it&#8217;s true- if we lead, we have an obligation to give those we serve our best, and that means maintaining optimal mental [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Remember the WORK&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[communication]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you seen productivity dip while creating a positive atmosphere?  There&#8217;s a likely reason, and a solution. So much of this blog&#8217;s content is devoted to positive, encouraging, servant leadership.  Every once in a while, a leader comes along who is so committed to positivity that they wonder why productivity might be down, not up. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>To know, and not do, is to not yet know&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alan Feirer</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership problems]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Modeling Behavior]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple weeks back, I was at a presentation of Janyne Peek Emsick, and she reminded us of a great quote from Karl Lewin: To know, and not do, is to not yet know. Have you ever explained how to tie your shoes?  Better yet, was there ever a time that you tried tying shoes [...]]]></description>
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