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		<title>The magic of butterscotch ripple</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/05/14/the-magic-of-butterscotch-ripple/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 12:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Invention, my dear friends, is 93 percent perspiration, 6 percent electricity, 4 percent evaporation, and 2 percent butterscotch ripple.&#8221; Gene Wilder as Willie Wonka New ideas are born from sweat&#8230;and a bit of magic. So often we think that creativity and true invention should come to us easily, with no effort at all – like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Throw out what you know</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/05/07/throw-out-what-you-know/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 May 2012 12:00:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Change and grow]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[perspectives]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.&#8221; Georgia O’Keefe I have found – in my own life and work as well as in the lives and work of my clients, colleagues, and friends – that so often it is what I &#8220;know&#8221; that gets in the way of what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Change is a chance to grow</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/04/02/change-is-a-chance-to-grow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2012 12:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<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[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[resisting change]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;If we don&#8217;t change, we don&#8217;t grow. If we don&#8217;t grow, we aren&#8217;t really living.&#8221; Gail Sheehy I learned in high school physics that an object at rest likes to stay at rest&#8230;and sometimes I think that defines how most of us approach life. While moving and changing can be a wonderful thing, so often [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mastering our fear</title>
		<link>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/02/20/mastering-our-fear/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2012 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Chatsworth Consulting Group</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Change and grow]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[bravery]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[courage]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Courage faces fear, and thereby masters it.&#8221; Martin Luther King, Jr. One of the greatest gifts that comes from being a coach is the opportunity to stand by my clients as they walk through some of their greatest fears. I&#8217;ve been witness to fears that are rational, irrational, historical, hysterical, physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual, [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2012/01/26/7-questions-you-must-answer-to-strengthen-your-great-idea/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:40:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robyn McLeod</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Setting goals]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Thoughtful leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[challenges]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Innovation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[objectives]]></category>
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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>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/12/08/ten-minutes-of-powerful-inspiration-that-will-last-a-lifetime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 13:00:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Achievement]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Personal growth]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Amy Purdy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[choosing]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[inspiration]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[limits]]></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>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/21/say-what-you-mean-but-don%e2%80%99t-say-it-mean/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<category><![CDATA[self awareness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[truthful]]></category>

		<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>
		<comments>http://chatsworthconsulting.com/2011/11/10/leadership-heresy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 13:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Kohn</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Choose]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Leadership]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[choosing]]></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>
		<category><![CDATA[Take risks]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[bold moves]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[focus on self]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[risk taking]]></category>
		<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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