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	<title>Award-Winning Performance &#187; Creativity &amp; Innovation</title>
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		<title>It&#8217;s Not Enough to &#8220;Want It More&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Mar 2012 19:07:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last night I heard a television commentator say that the Republican nomination is going to come down to &#8220;who wants it more.&#8221; I sincerely hope that this is not the case. Republican or Democrat, I sincerely hope that we&#8217;re not going to choose our leaders on the basis of who wants it more. I mean, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Asking the Right Questions?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:40:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today we&#8217;re going to do a bit of reverse engineering to see just what it is that makes us tick. Ready? Here we go: Our life—which includes our job, our relationships, our income, our health—is determined, to a large extent, by our actions. Our actions are determined, to a large extent, by our beliefs. Our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take Off Your Blinders and Branch Out</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Feb 2012 21:12:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Branch out. That&#8217;s my mandate/order/request/challenge to you today. Branch out. Let&#8217;s face it, most of us live our lives on autopilot. We get up at the same time every day, we eat the same things for breakfast, drive the same route to work, listen to the same radio stations, read the same books, talk to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Change the World (in one easy step)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 00:08:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[The Emmy Effect: Developing & Leading Creative Talent & Teams]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the privilege of delivering the opening keynote address at the annual convention of Mensa. This can be a little intimidating, because the sole requirement for membership in Mensa is that you be a genius (in the top 2% of IQ). Granted, I&#8217;m a member, but I&#8217;m pretty sure I got in under [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Beatles and the Dead: The New Business Gurus?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:44:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently read a wonderful book called Marketing Lessons from the Grateful Dead by David Meerman Scott and Brian Halligan. Since I’d written a book extolling the business virtues of the Beatles, I was curious to see how these two iconic bands stacked up in the world of corporate smarts. In some areas I found [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/does-your-business-have-a-hook-2</link>
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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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