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		<title>Why Your New Years Resolutions Fail</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jan 2012 19:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re well into January, and I&#8217;m guessing that by now you&#8217;ve already begun abandoning your well thought out and well intentioned New Years resolutions. And they were well intentioned, weren&#8217;t they? That&#8217;s because it&#8217;s so much easier to be optimistic when you&#8217;re looking at the new year through the rosy vapors of last night&#8217;s champagne. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2 Questions to Ask After a &#8220;Failure&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 18:30:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent blog article, I made the observation that too many of the big decisions we make in life are predicated on the avoidance of failure rather than on the achievement of success. In other words, we make too many &#8220;safe&#8221; decisions because we&#8217;re afraid of what might happen if we fail. I encouraged [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Teacher&#8217;s Million Dollar Lesson</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Aug 2011 18:48:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a recent convention where I was speaking, I ran into my good friend and science wizard Steve Spangler. As always, I was astounded by just how successful this guy is. He runs a multi-million dollar company, he&#8217;s an Emmy winner, and he&#8217;s appeared numerous times on The Ellen DeGeneres Show. And if you ask [...]]]></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>
				<category><![CDATA[Creativity & Innovation]]></category>
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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>Do You &#8220;Own&#8221; Your Space?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:42:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our business lesson today, boys and girls, comes from a spider (and not in one of those hokey &#8220;Charlotte&#8217;s Web&#8221; kind of ways). A spider, whom I&#8217;ll call &#8220;Henry&#8221; because that&#8217;s what my girlfriend and I named him, has built a web just outside my front door, right by the porch light. Now, given that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why the Beatles are Legends and You&#8217;re Not. Yet.</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/why-the-beatles-are-legends-and-youre-not-yet</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 04:42:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So there was this band from England. Not London. Somewhere up north—a place called Liverpool. They were a hit in their hometown, but hadn&#8217;t really made much of a splash anywhere else (except for a few clubs in Hamburg). They had gotten a recording contract, and even put out a record—a simplistic little song called [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership and the Power of Words</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/leadership-and-the-power-of-words</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Sep 2010 22:23:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I gave a keynote speech at a resort and spa nestled in the Colorado Rockies. (Hey, sometimes you get a resort; sometimes you get a Motel 3.) This resort had signs posted throughout the facility touting a luxury pedicure available in the spa. This was the last line of the sign: &#8220;A pedicure from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Don&#8217;t We Take More Risks?</title>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/why-dont-we-take-more-risks</link>
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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>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/dont-ignore-the-small-opportunities</link>
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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>
		<link>http://ovationconsulting.com/blog/what-it-takes-to-be-a-champion</link>
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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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