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		<title>7 questions you must answer to strengthen your great idea</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/26/7-questions-you-must-answer-to-strengthen-your-great-idea/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There’s nothing I love more than learning something new from one discipline and applying it to something different. Such was the case recently when a client of mine, a thermal scientist, shared Heilmeier’s Catechism with me. George Heilmeier was an engineer who headed the research group at RCA that developed the first liquid crystal display [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ten minutes of powerful inspiration that will last a lifetime</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/12/08/ten-minutes-of-powerful-inspiration-that-will-last-a-lifetime/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Purdy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wow. That’s all I have to say. Someone I care about was kind enough to forward this TED video to me, and I have to share it with everyone I know. It’s just under 10 minutes long, and I promise you, it will be an absolutely inspiring 10 minutes – and so worth your time. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Say what you mean, but don’t say it mean</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/21/say-what-you-mean-but-don%e2%80%99t-say-it-mean/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2011 13:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Communicate/communication]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fearless]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Gandhi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[gentleness]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://chatsworthconsulting.com/?p=2369</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Be truthful, gentle, and fearless.&#8221; Gandhi When I saw this quote on a card in a store, it resonated with me. It encapsulates how I try to live my life, or at least how I hope I try to live my life. It echoes the truth I have seen in the lives of my clients. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership heresy</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/10/leadership-heresy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This weekend was about college visits. My daughter is a junior in high school, and because of the extremely long list of schools she might be interested in and her intense extracurricular schedule we decided to get a jump on visits and knocked three schools off in one weekend. And I had the greatest leadership [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are you too scared to make a bold move?</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/03/are-you-too-scared-to-make-a-bold-move/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/03/are-you-too-scared-to-make-a-bold-move/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 15:00:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bold moves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[focus on self]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[shutting out negative talk]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I read an article this week in Inc. magazine about a young CEO who decided to take a year-long sabbatical and leave his company in the hands of his management team. The CEO, Jared Heyman of Atlanta-based Infosurv, opted to focus on a few of his life goals rather than stay tied to his desk [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Grit is a leadership competency</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/06/grit-is-a-leadership-competency/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/06/grit-is-a-leadership-competency/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2011 12:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Show gratitude - appreciation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Daniel Goleman]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[David Levin]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Dominic Randolph]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emotional Intelligence]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[failure]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[New York Times Magazine]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Character Test]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I read a great article by Paul Tough in the New York Times Magazine entitled, “The Character Test.” The lead-in to the article posed the question: “What if the Secret to Success is Failure?” This question really grabbed me as we often teach the value of “failure” in our leadership programs. How valuable are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get out of your own way</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/03/get-out-of-your-own-way/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/10/03/get-out-of-your-own-way/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change and grow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal growth]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[can't]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[freedom to fail]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Clear your mind of &#8216;can&#8217;t.&#8217;&#8221; Samuel Johnson I hear it from my children. I hear it from my clients. I hear it from my family members and friends. I hear it from myself. &#8220;I can&#8217;t do that.&#8221; &#8220;It will never work.&#8221; How often do we stand in our own way with our beliefs that something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Swimming toward big dreams</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/08/11/swimming-toward-big-dreams/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/08/11/swimming-toward-big-dreams/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 13:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Diana Nyad]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dreams]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[At the age of 61, former long distance swim champion Diana Nyad just attempted a feat that no one else has ever completed – a 103-mile, 60-hour swim from Havana, Cuba, to Key West, Florida. In watching and reading news accounts about her historic effort, I am reminded of what helps anyone succeed in going [...]]]></description>
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		<title>From the eyes of a child</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/07/11/from-the-eyes-of-a-child/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/07/11/from-the-eyes-of-a-child/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jul 2011 12:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Thoughtful Leaders Minute]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[perspectives]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resistance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It takes one a long time to become young.&#8221; Pablo Picasso &#8220;Youth is wasted on the young,&#8221; they say. Children are born into this world full of curiosity, excitement for learning, and joy and appreciation for the simple beauty in life. These are all attitudes that are even more beneficial as we grow older, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who cares what they think?  Move forward anyway!</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/05/23/who-cares-what-they-think-move-forward-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/05/23/who-cares-what-they-think-move-forward-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 13:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;You don&#8217;t have to let yourself be terrorized by other people&#8217;s expectations of you.&#8221; Sue Patton Thoele I was speaking with one of my clients recently, and she shared with me challenges she was having with her boss. It seems that she was so convinced of how high a bar she had to hit for [...]]]></description>
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