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	<title>Leadership, Beatles, and Other Stuff &#187; Creativity &amp; Innovation</title>
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		<title>The Crucial Thing Your Customers Can&#8217;t Tell You</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 May 2010 00:34:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading an online article yesterday about the iPad (because, as we all know, there haven&#8217;t been enough articles about the iPad). The article itself wasn&#8217;t earth-shattering—something about how the iPad is outselling Mac computers—but I thought one of the comments was hugely insightful. The thread was about why Apple products, particularly the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does Your Business Have a &#8220;Hook&#8221;?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 May 2010 22:08:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve got a nice little business with all the things that a nice little business requires: a great product or service, a company web site, maybe even an expensive sales and marketing campaign. The only problem is, you&#8217;re not getting the customers. You&#8217;ve built it, but they&#8217;re not coming. What&#8217;s the problem? You have no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Lurching Through Your Business!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 00:44:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a professional speaker, I get to visit with many different businesses in a cross-section of industries. I&#8217;m noticing some trends that I find encouraging—trends that I&#8217;ve confirmed with several of my speaker colleagues. Now, I&#8217;m not going to sit here and try to convince you that we&#8217;re completely out of the economic doldrums. You&#8217;re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why You Don&#8217;t Need to Solve Every Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:58:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How much time are you wasting trying to solve problems that could simply be eliminated? I once spent nearly an entire summer trying to solve a problem. But when I finally came around to eliminating the problem instead, the &#8220;solution&#8221; seemed so simple! Here&#8217;s what happened. I was the producer of a sketch comedy TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Lead a Creative Team</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jan 2010 19:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve never run a pre-school daycare, but for fifteen years I was the boss of ten multi-Emmy Award winning comedy writers, which amounts to pretty much the same thing. As the Executive Producer of Seattle&#8217;s sketch comedy TV show, Almost Live!, it was my job to keep a highly creative team motivated and productive. I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Most People Miss the Brilliant Idea</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/why-most-people-miss-the-brilliant-idea</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Dec 2009 05:01:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m tired of hearing people talk about &#8220;quantity vs. quality,&#8221; as if the two were mutually exclusive. [You: "Really? You're tired of that? You're hearing this conversation so much that you're actually tired of it? What kind of lame parties are you going to, man? I never hear people talking about 'quantity vs. quality!'"] Well, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Ideas</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/the-power-of-ideas</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been talking a lot about ideas lately. I love ideas. I love coming up with them, I love watching others come up with them, I love seeing them brought to fruition. It&#8217;s been said that, in business, nothing happens until somebody sells something. That may be true, but you know what? In virtually everything—business [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Crank or a Visionary?</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/69</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2009 03:10:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was reading through a book of Mark Twain quotes last night (did the guy ever say anything that wasn&#8217;t pure gold?), and I came upon one that was particularly relevant to my last post: &#8220;The man with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.&#8221; Bill Gates was an idiot whose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Have You Missed the Boat?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Feb 2009 19:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Do you ever feel like you missed the boat? Do you ever feel like opportunity has, once again, passed you by? Do you ever find yourself saying, &#8220;If only I had&#8230; &#8230;invented the Pet Rock; &#8230;bought into Microsoft when it first went public; &#8230;come up with the idea for Facebook?&#8221; Somehow the innovations always seem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ringo, Innovation, and Challenging Times</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:51:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was out to dinner last night, and two guys at a nearby table were discussing Sunday&#8217;s Grammy awards—specifically Paul McCartney&#8217;s performance of I Saw Her Standing There with Foo Fighter (and former Nirvana drummer) Dave Grohl on drums. This led one of the two to say &#8220;Well, Ringo never really was much of [...]]]></description>
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