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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t We Take More Risks?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 02:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all love a risk-taker, don&#8217;t we? The business owner, the entrepreneur, the CEO who has a big idea, then boldly rolls the dice with a &#8220;Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!&#8221; attitude. We look at them with wonder and envy, and jealously applaud them when they make it big. We hear people tell us, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Ignore the &#8220;Small&#8221; Opportunities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:41:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How many opportunities (including BIG ones) are you leaving on the table because you&#8217;re ignoring the small game? I was just reading an interview with Paul McCartney&#8217;s bass player, Brian Ray (and what kind of pressure must that be—playing bass for one of the greatest rock bassists of all time?!). The interviewer asked the obvious [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What It Takes to Be a Champion</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:32:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[June 23rd, 2010 is a date that will go down in Wimbledon history. This is the date that two guys whom you&#8217;ve probably never heard of—Nicolas Mahut and John Isner—battled for ten straight hours in a match that had to be completed the following day because, well, because it got dark! Ten straight hours! Even [...]]]></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>Stop Lying About &#8220;Going to Work&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 May 2010 19:38:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a guy at my gym whom I call Burl. Not because he&#8217;s burly, like you&#8217;d expect a gym regular to be, but because he looks like Burl Ives. (For you younger readers, Burl Ives was a rotund, congenial-looking man, whom you may know as the voice of Frosty the Snowman. He was not known [...]]]></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>Do Your Customers Feel Like They Belong?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2010 02:16:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I went to hear a Beatles tribute band last night. That, in itself is not remarkable. I see a lot of Beatles tribute bands. But here&#8217;s what struck me. I got to the venue a half hour early, and there was already a line. But this wasn&#8217;t a line waiting to get in; this was [...]]]></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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