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		<title>Congratulations, Chuck Reid!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We extend our congratulations to Chuck Reid, named the 2010 Michigan Small Business Person of the Year, by the U. S. Small Business Administration. The award is to be presented on April 29 in Lansing. Chuck was featured in the podcast series, &#8220;Preparing for the New Normal,&#8221; sharing his insights into &#8220;Dream.&#8221; Be sure to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2010/04/22/congratulations-chuck-reid/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the New Normal &#8211; #5 Do</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The secret of getting ahead is getting started.&#8221; Mark Twain The Fifth &#8220;D&#8221; &#8212; DO IT! &#8212; Now it is 2010, you&#8217;re working in the new normal, and it&#8217;s important to make sure that you take some concrete action in support of your new skills &#8212; so once you&#8217;ve Decided, Dreamt, De-cluttered and Drilled, don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2010/04/22/preparing-for-the-new-normal-5-do/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the New Normal &#8211; #4 Drill</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.&#8221; Alexis Carrel DRILL is the fourth technique for rearranging your life in order to adapt to the challenging times that face us all. Drill stands for locating, renewing, and using sources of energy to stay balanced and to stay &#8216;fueled up.&#8217; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/10/23/preparing-for-the-new-normal-4-drill/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the New Normal &#8211; #3 Declutter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Being clear of clutter is one of the greatest aids I know to discovering and manifesting the life you want.&#8221; Karen Kingston, Clear Your Clutter with Feng Shui Yesterday while speaking to a networking group on the topic of Preparing for the New Normal we created a list of things that get in our way, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/10/22/preparing-for-the-new-normal-3-declutter/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the New Normal &#8211; #2 Dream</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn&#8217;t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.&#8221; Mark Twain The second in our series of pieces on Preparing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/10/16/preparing-for-the-new-normal-2-dream/</link>
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		<title>Preparing for the New Normal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Will Rogers told us:  &#8220;Even if you&#8217;re on the right track, you&#8217;ll get run over if you just sit there.&#8221; So are you going to get run over, are you just sitting there wondering what is up ahead on the road of life?   Rather than sit, I joined up with Kay Hubbard and Beth [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/10/15/preparing-for-the-new-normal/</link>
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		<title>Jim Kouzes on Leadership in Tough Times</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today I had the privilege of listening to Jim Kouzes, author of The Leadership Challenge, and #12 on the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s list of best executive educators in the US. The teleforum, &#8220;Enduring Truths About Leadership in Tough Times,&#8221; was sponsored and moderated by Executive Coach Patricia Wheeler, publisher of Leading News at leadingnews.org. There [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/05/28/jim-kouzes-on-leadership-in-tough-times/</link>
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		<title>Tech Trends Coming at You!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a ton of reasons to live on the “3rd Coast” &#8212; West Michigan. One reason is the great Chamber of Commerce in Holland, where today I took the opportunity at an early-bird breakfast to hear a thought-provoking perspective on what is coming at us from the technology front, and details on the rapid [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/04/14/tech-trends-coming-at-you/</link>
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		<title>Are You an &#8220;Accelerator&#8221; or a &#8220;Terminator&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you an Accelerator or a Terminator? Last year, while leading a strategic visioning and team development retreat, the Division VP, assigned primary follow-up accountability to the Director of HR, Alisa, whom he dubbed the “accelerator.” What the Division VP wished of Alisa was that she would move the team through its agreed-to action plan, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/03/20/are-you-an-accelerator-or-a-terminator/</link>
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		<title>Did You Ever Wonder How Southwest Airlines &#8220;Did It&#8221;?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been hearing about Southwest Airlines and their venerated employee culture since I began in business school over three decades ago. Then we joked about the &#8220;love&#8221; theme. Considering that SWA closed 2008 with the second-best on-time performance of the nation’s commercial air carriers and that SWA carries more domestic passengers than any other U.S. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://brunsconsult.com/blog/2009/03/09/did-you-ever-wonder-how-southwest-airlines-did-it/</link>
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