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	<description>A Blog on Personal Leadership by the Founder of The Collier Companies</description>
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		<title>30 Methods of Influence: #23 Agree on the Limits, Rules, Expectations, and Consequences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;30 Methods of Influence&#8221; by Stephen R. Covey
23. Agree on the limits, rules, expectations, and consequences. These must be clearly established, agreed upon, understood, and enforced. Personal security is largely born of a sense of justice—knowing what is expected, what the limits, rules, and consequences are. Life can be thrown out of kilter with uncertain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/30-methods-of-influence-23-agree-on-the-limits-rules-expectations-and-consequences/</link>
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		<title>We Are Just Dealing With Thoughts, and Thoughts Can Be Changed</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What we experience inside our heads—our emotions and reactions—are just inner effects of outer events.
The stories we choose to tell ourselves, the way we choose to interpret events, powerfully impacts our responses and our effectiveness.
It has been said that stress is not an event, but a chosen reaction to an event. We may have allowed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/we-are-just-dealing-with-thoughts-and-thoughts-can-be-changed/</link>
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		<title>To Know and Not Do Is To Not Know</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I sometimes lead a short personal leadership course for the incoming real estate grad students at the University of Florida. I often tell them the unofficial theme of the course is &#8220;To Know and Not Do is to Not Know.&#8221;
One of my goals is to put &#8220;old heads on young shoulders,&#8221; in essence to convert [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/to-know-and-not-do-is-to-not-know-2/</link>
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		<title>The Point of Power is Always in the Present Moment</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The past is done and gone, each passing moment irretrievably beyond reach. The only impact we can make is on the present moment and future present moments.
So often I’ve regretted the past and resolved to do better in the future. And then it occurs to me&#8230; forget promising to do better in the future, resolve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/the-point-of-power-is-always-in-the-present-moment/</link>
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		<title>Populist-Capitalist: Behind the Wizard of Oz’s Curtain</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The American public has been fed so much PR spin that it can become hard to know reality, to have good benchmarks, to have a solid understanding of what constitutes a true norm. Few corporations are willing to admit mistakes; any mistake and even fewer CEOs will own up to ever having made an error [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/populist-capitalist-behind-the-wizard-of-oz%e2%80%99s-curtain/</link>
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		<title>30 Methods of Influence: #22 Recognize and Take Time to Teach</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;30 Methods of Influence&#8221; by Stephen R. Covey
22. Recognize and take time to teach. With differences come supreme teaching moments. But there’s a time to teach and a time not to teach. It’s time to teach when 1) people are not threatened (efforts to teach when people feel threatened will only increase resentment, so wait [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/30-methods-of-influence-22-recognize-and-take-time-to-teach/</link>
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		<title>Multipliers vs. Diminishers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[(From “Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter,” by Liz Wiseman, Greg McKeown; HarperBusiness, 2010)
Diminishers underutilize people, leaving creativity and talent on the table. They view intelligence as a scarce item: “You won’t find high levels of brainpower everywhere, in everyone.” They tend to drive results primarily through their personal involvement and make decisions [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/multipliers-vs-diminishers/</link>
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		<title>Budgets: Avoiding an Exercise in Illusion</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A sage once said, &#8220;the most common miscommunication is the illusion that it occurred.” Often we have not communicated as clearly as we think we have.
One fertile ground for miscommunication is the annual budget creation process. Budget setting can easily deteriorate into gamesmanship. One one hand, the field office sets an artificially high number knowing [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/budgets-an-exercise-in-illusion-2/</link>
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		<title>“Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“Shop Class as Soulcraft,” by Matthew B. Crawford, is a homage to the dignity of labor, the joy of being able to work with one’s hands, of tasks that require physically engagement. There is a deep satisfaction in being able to touch and feel and see the results of one’s efforts. “Shop Class” reminds us [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/%e2%80%9cshop-class-as-soulcraft-an-inquiry-into-the-value-of-work%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>“You Are Never Safe”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So you’re thinking, what is going on? Isn’t this Nathan’s blog? Mr. Positive Thinking, Mr. Radiant Optimist?
“You are never safe”? That’s a downer.
“You are never safe” is a quotation on business success from an entrepreneur named Chris Mittelstaedt, CEO of FruitGuys, a $6 million company (Reader’s Digest, June/July 2010, p. 80; see ending comment*).
Asked what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/%e2%80%9cyou-are-never-safe%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<title>30 Methods of Influence: #21 Avoid Fight or Flight, Talk Through Differences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;30 Methods of Influence&#8221; by Stephen R. Covey
21. Avoid fight or flight, talk through differences. Many people either fight or flee when they disagree. Fighting takes many forms, ranging from violence and open expressions of anger and hate to subtle sarcasm, sharp answers, clever comebacks, belittling humor, judgments, and reactions. Fleeing also takes various forms. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/30-methods-of-influence-21-avoid-fight-or-flight-talk-through-differences/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Personal Power Through Awareness&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to keep your edge? Your sharpest edge? Keep your energy levels high, your enthusiasm flowing? Stay pumped, juiced? Excited about life? Confident, cool, calm, collected, centered, competent? Passionate?
How do you do stay on top of your game on those days (weeks? months? years?) when the challenges seem to come at you fast and furious? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/personal-power-through-awareness/</link>
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		<title>Principled Profit</title>
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I believe in the power of free markets and capitalism to create prosperity, to harness and direct human potential. But sometimes that energy can run amok, particularly if there are inadequate protections against the temptations of the weak side of human nature.
Hedge funds are a case in point: Generally privately held, lightly regulated, often based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/principled-profit/</link>
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		<title>Can You Control Your Mind?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For his book, “Mentality,” British author Joe Sillett asked some of Britain’s best-known sports figures, “Can you control your mind?”
“Yes, totally. I believe that sport—and life in general—is all about controlling your mind. It’s about thinking positively all the time—negative things can get you down. It’s hard because sometimes negative things happen and it’s difficult [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.nscblog.com/miscellaneous/can-you-control-your-mind/</link>
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		<title>“The Narrow Road”</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“The Narrow Road” is the title of a book by Felix Dennis, the owner of Maxim men’s magazine and one of the U.K.’s richest men. Rather, “Narrow Road” was the title when it was first published in Britain. Americans being Americans, it got re-titled “How to Get Rich: One of the World’s Greatest Entrepreneurs Shares [...]]]></description>
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