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	<title>Award-Winning Performance &#187; Work Ethic</title>
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		<title>Do Your Customers Trust You?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2012 12:24:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m getting ready to board a plane, something I do several times a week. Each time, I&#8217;m putting my trust—and my life—in the hands of the pilot. This is, in all likelihood, a person I&#8217;ve never met, and never will meet. But I rarely, if ever, think about it, and I&#8217;ll bet you don&#8217;t either. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who&#8217;s in Charge&#8211;You, or the Rain?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Mar 2012 21:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a cold, gray, rainy day here in Seattle, and I noticed fewer people at the gym this morning. Coincidence? Perhaps, but I don&#8217;t think so. See, I almost didn&#8217;t go to the gym myself. Who wants to go to the gym on a miserable day like this? For that matter, who wants to go [...]]]></description>
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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 Playing Music&#8230;or Just Notes?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2012 18:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[See that guy on the left? The one at the Steinway? That&#8217;s Andras Schiff, one of the greatest concert pianists alive today. Andras and I have a few things in common: 1) we both play the piano; 2) we both play Steinways (although his preferred instrument is a Bosendorfer); 3) we&#8217;ve both had dinner with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You an Award-Winning Performer?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You don&#8217;t need an award to have award-winning performance. A couple of friends and I went to a little jazz club in Seattle on Saturday night. The quartet, led by vocalist Greta Matassa, was outstanding. My friends and I had a wonderful time, but here&#8217;s the thing that really struck me: Towards the end of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do One Thing Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:32:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What will your one thing be today? Back when I was producing my sketch comedy TV show, Almost Live!, I had one cardinal rule that I followed, for each and every show, during the entire 15-year run. That rule was this: For each show, there had to be at least one element that would make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Who Moved My Peas?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 19:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First, a status report. My cheese is fine. Nobody&#8217;s moved my cheese; my cheese is right where it&#8217;s always been. Cheese, you see, is the reward you get for making it through the maze. It&#8217;s the fun stuff. Cheese is: the glass of wine at the end of the day the weekend movie the summer [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The REAL Reason to Do Great Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s that time of year again—time for my annual &#8220;Let&#8217;s try to see as many Oscar nominated movies as possible&#8221; drive. So last night I saw Extremely Loud &#38; Incredibly Close, which is not exactly the front runner for Best Picture. Still, it&#8217;s nominated, as is co-star Max von Sydow for Best Supporting Actor. Conspicuously [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Decision Will You Make Today?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2012 14:07:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What decision will you make today? Every movement—forward, backward, or sideways—begins with a decision. The quality of that movement is determined, to a large degree, by the quality of the decision. Making a decision is like putting your car in &#8220;drive.&#8221; You&#8217;re not going to go anywhere until you step on the gas, but by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You a Worker Bee or a Wannabe?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Stainton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was recently talking to a fellow speaker about marketing. She was complaining (whining, really) because she had to put together a new marketing campaign for her services, and she wasn&#8217;t enjoying the process. She said she didn&#8217;t want to do any marketing. I asked her what she did want, and she said: &#8220;I just [...]]]></description>
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