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		<title>Inspiration for a Tuesday Afternoon #3: Dan Pink &#8220;Drive&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you search around on YouTube you can find some very excellent videos regarding business and marketing. One such video was created by TheRSA.org. They&#8217;ve illustrated a talk given by Dan Pink about what really motivates us at work. This is a must see. Enjoy! Direct Link: RSA Animate &#8211; Drive: The surprising truth about [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0622/inspiration-for-a-tuesday-afternoon-3-dan-pink-drive/</link>
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		<title>How to Brainstorm for Success: Part 2 &#8211; Preparing for the Storm</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is the second post in the &#8220;How to Brainstorm for Success&#8221; series. If you missed the first post, check it out here: &#8220;How to Brainstorm for Success: Part 1 &#8211; An Introduction to Brainstorming&#8221; where we briefly discuss different brainstorming stages. Have you ever been laying down at night waiting to go to [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0621/how-to-brainstorm-for-success-part-2-preparing-for-the-storm/</link>
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		<title>Inspiration for a Tuesday Afternoon #2: Rethinking Advertising</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The internet has opened up a whole new playing field for marketers. Now a lot of people think that marketing online is the same as marketing offline, but there&#8217;s so much more to it. The interent allows people to connect with each other in ways that people have never thought of before. If you browse [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0615/inspiration-for-a-tuesday-afternoon-2-rethinking-advertising/</link>
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		<title>Why Doing Nothing can be Doing More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m amazed at how many work-a-holics there are in the world. Just today I read a blog post about a guy who was aggravated because he&#8217;d heard another man say he was just killing time. &#8220;How dare he!&#8221; the blog author thought as he considered clobbering the other man. &#8220;Doesn&#8217;t he know that time is [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0609/why-doing-nothing-can-be-doing-more/</link>
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		<title>How to Brainstorm for Success: Part 1 &#8211; An Introduction to Brainstorming</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first article in a 3-part series about learning to brainstorm. When I was a kid, my siblings and I would frequently ride our bikes to the local store to buy penny candy (hooray for penny candy!). The store wasn’t too far from us, maybe an 8-minute ride one way. We’d hop on [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0604/how-to-brainstorm-for-success-part-1-an-introduction-to-brainstorming/</link>
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		<title>Business IS Personal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;re probably familiar with the phrase, &#8220;It&#8217;s a dog-eat-dog world out there.&#8221; I&#8217;ve been hearing it for years, and I&#8217;ve used it a few times myself. It&#8217;s a true phrase. If you&#8217;re not careful, once you step foot into the big bad business world, you can get skewered, slathered in BBQ sauce, chewed up, and [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0527/business-is-personal/</link>
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		<title>Inspiration for a Tuesday Afternoon #1: Work Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tuesdays are the slowest days for me. To help me cope with that, I&#8217;ve decided to create a new blog series called &#8220;Inspiration for a Tuesday Afternoon.&#8221; This is the first post in what is to be a long and fruitful relationship with my Tuesday afternoons. Enjoy. (Click the Read More link to see the [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0518/inspiration-for-a-tuesday-afternoon-1-work-video/</link>
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		<title>How to Recognize if You’re a Bottleneck, and How to Change It.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Among the many things that keep businesses and ideas from succeeded, one of the most obnoxious and frustrating ones are bottlenecks. The bottleneck in your organization might be a person. It might be a process. It might be your equipment. It might even be a condition in which you work. I’ll be focusing on the [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0517/how-to-recognize-if-you-are-a-bottleneck-and-how-to-change-it/</link>
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		<title>Your Way is the Best Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve seen it time and time again—an idea is born and then a short while later it dies. It’s unfortunate because some of the ideas I hear are nothing short of jaw dropping and life changing. You probably know what I’m talking about. It’s hard to find someone who’s short of ideas. Most everybody has [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0513/your-way-is-the-best-way/</link>
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		<title>You Want Me to Change?! Holy Smokes!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re interested in business you know you have to attract customers, some of which will be using your competitor&#8217;s product. If you&#8217;re interested in leading, you know you have to have followers. If you&#8217;re interested in getting someone to change a behavior, you have to be convincing. If you&#8217;re wanting to change a person&#8217;s [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0511/you-want-me-to-change-holy-smokes/</link>
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		<title>A Networking Casestudy with Northwestern Mutual</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I met with a financial representative from Northwestern Mutual. I&#8217;d like to share this &#8220;case study&#8221; with you as part of my ongoing series on how to network. I&#8217;m happy with my financial situation right now. My wife and I have taken great measures with our finances to accomplish what we consider [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0504/a-networking-casestudy-with-northwestern-mutual/</link>
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		<title>12 Simple Lessons in Leadership for Those Who Want to Make a Difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are a lot of people I admire out there who have good values, strong morals and contribute to society. Within that group I have personally observed four individuals who stand out as leaders and movers. These are my observations of their leadership behaviors. Remarkable leaders&#8230; …are not ashamed of their opinions. The most successful [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0428/12-simple-lessons-in-leadership-for-those-who-want-to-make-a-difference/</link>
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		<title>5 Ways to Trim the Fat from Your Next Project</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you regularly work with clients you understand how easy it is to let a project spin out of control and wind up fatty and huge… we call it scope creep, and before you know it the project&#8217;s over budget and shipping late. Avoiding scope creep is a topic in itself, so instead what I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are You Prepared for Layoffs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[About a month ago the company I&#8217;m working for gathered all 60 of us into a tight meeting room and announced that there would be layoffs in July. It&#8217;s not because we&#8217;re shrinking or doing poorly, in fact&#8211;it&#8217;s quite the opposite. It&#8217;s because we&#8217;re growing. Perhaps on another day I&#8217;ll tell you how that works. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0415/are-you-prepared-for-layoffs/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneur Interview: Chris McClain of Chris McClain Productions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to talk with Chris McClain about his videography business, Chris McClain Productions. One part of life that I absolutely enjoy is the arts, and so I had a great time learning about his work and also seeing some of the great videos&#8230; including his latest award-winning film&#8230; he&#8217;s created for [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0411/entrepreneur-interview-chris-mcclain-of-chris-mcclain-productions/</link>
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		<title>Greater than &#8216;Me&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s lunch time at work and a gazillion thoughts are crowding my brain. I figured I&#8217;d share some with you, although they&#8217;re incomplete and a little chaotic. What&#8217;s my motivation? Is it money &#8212; ? &#8211; so I can buy that big house&#8230; and that super cool sports car&#8230; and then wine and dine with [...]


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		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0407/greater-than-me/</link>
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		<title>Construction in Progress</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m dinking around with WP themes right now and so my blog is changing faces here and there. Don&#8217;t act alarmed, and don&#8217;t be surprised. Actually, you can if you want, but it won&#8217;t do you any good. © Chris for Chris Mower, 2010. &#124; Permalink &#124; No comment &#124; Add to del.icio.us Post tags: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0330/construction-in-progress/</link>
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		<title>Why You Should Care about Who You Recommend</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You should care about who you recommend. Everything you do and say reflects on you, and when you recommend somebody, everything they do or say reflects on you too. When you recommend somebody&#8230; &#8230;you&#8217;re also recommending their attitude. If they&#8217;re eager to jump in and help, if they&#8217;re positive, proactive, encouraging, and happy, that reflects [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0326/why-you-should-care-about-who-you-recommend/</link>
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		<title>Entrepreneur Interview: Abe Niederhauser, Founder of Ads4Africa.org</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was introduced to Abe Niederhauser through my friend and colleague, Travis Washburn, as we toured through Body Worlds 3 in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 2008. I was immediately impressed with his down-to-earth yet energetic and creative drive. A while after we met I learned that he’d launched Ads4Africa.org, a website focused on aiding [...]


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		<title>The W8 Formula</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In high school and part of college I competed on the forensics team in debate, oratory, humor, drama, and poetry and (pardon me for tooting my own horn) did really well at it. Actually, I lied. I did well in all areas except debate. Debate was a giant thorn in my side and I’d leave [...]


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		<title>Begin Taking Personal Responsibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Taking personal responsibility is a subject with which I passionately identify. There’s a difference between taking personal responsibility and blaming yourself. Blaming yourself is letting yourself down and telling yourself that you really stunk it up. It’s pessimistic, degrading, demoralizing, and derogatory. It makes you feel like mud on a rock. Taking responsibility is just [...]


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		<title>J.K. Rowling: Harvard Commencement Speech</title>
		<description><![CDATA[J.K. Rowling, author of the best-selling Harry Potter book series, delivers her Commencement Address, “The Fringe Benefits of Failure, and the Importance of Imagination,” at the Annual Meeting of the Harvard Alumni Association. J.K. Rowling&#8217;s commencement speech is one of the best I&#8217;ve heard in a long time. It&#8217;s very touching, humble, and deep &#8212; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0303/j-k-rowling-harvard-commencement-speech/</link>
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		<title>The Greenie Principle</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Greenie is slang for noob, rookie, greenhorn. Life is filled with greenie moments. They often happen after you&#8217;ve become comfortable where you are. Greenie moments invite progress; they provide opportunity to stretch ourselves and extend past our comfort zones. If you haven&#8217;t had a greenie moment in a while, it&#8217;s time to find one. Dormancy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0226/the-greenie-principle/</link>
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		<title>A Need for Ethics</title>
		<description><![CDATA[More than ever before there&#8217;s a need for ethics and basic human decency at work, at home, and in our communites. In a world of declining morality and kindness we find increased businesses, employers, employees, husbands, and wives looking for self satisfaction and glory. Selfishness is on the rise, and it hurts everyone. I&#8217;m inspired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.chrismower.com/0224/a-need-for-ethics/</link>
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		<title>Make Yourself Someone with Whom Others Want to Network</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another aspect of networking that I didn&#8217;t cover in &#8220;How to Network: Getting Started with the Basics&#8221; is the importance of being a strong node in someone else&#8217;s network. That&#8217;s right, more than just networking with others, you should try to be someone that others want to network with. Sometimes fish do jump in the [...]


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