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	<description>Find Your Next is a business strategy column written by Andrea Kates, founder of the Business Genome approach, a 6-step, connect-the-dots process for driving business growth with a ground-breaking new concept—a high-impact approach to cross-industry insights and global collaboration.</description>
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		<title>New times, new skills for leaders: How to curate the crowd to drive business growth</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 02:19:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Until recently,  leadership models featured a heavy dose of character and charisma-building tips (for inspiring others), sport-analogy-filled guidance (for leading teams) and mindfulness (for thinking deeply before acting).  Because companies were thought to be a combination of well-oiled and efficient machine + high performing competitive team + congregation of loyalists + inspired assemblage of visionaries, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=748&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 16:42:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, we talked turkey; this week, we get ready for the reindeer games. But, there is still time to sneak in a couple of work-ations before the year is over—extracurricular explorations that can set us up for success in 2011. Work-ations are creative excursions (either actual trips or virtual dives) designed to inspire us, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=723&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Dora the (Business) Explorer: How to plan work-ations that will grow revenues, part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:13:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[November means it&#8217;s time to think about turkey and very soon about mistletoe. But, in our business lives, we translate this time of year into pressure for Q4 results, with next year&#8217;s Q1 expectations looming in the not-too-distant future. In companies all over the country I hear quiet cries for help: 2010 has been a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=696&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you&#8217;re stuck, mix it up: How (and why) to have an &#8220;interesting&#8221; conversation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 12:58:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[At TEDxSanDiego, everyone took part in a novel experiment designed to track conversations throughout the day, partly to encourage the speakers, audience, performers and sponsors to mix and mingle in new ways, and partly to look at how the interactions at a TEDx event might be different from traditional networking. What kinds of questions would [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=671&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Research Mixology: How to use social media connections for passion and profit</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 13:03:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[TEDxSanDiego—Technology, Entertainment, Design (TED)—teaches us lessons about the power of intersections: ideas + invention+ innovation + impact; people + possibilities; and, most importantly, connections + commitment + community. If you haven’t yet joined the hundreds of millions of participants in the TED wave, the TED conference started years ago as a live gathering of people [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=652&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Live is not dead: How to move ideas further, faster, better—flesh-to-flesh</title>
		<link>http://businessgenome.wordpress.com/2010/11/02/live-is-not-dead-how-to-move-ideas-further-faster-better%e2%80%94face-to-face/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 17:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We used to gather in caves and around fires, to exchange ideas and get together.  We made a move:  from an individual existence to a shared existence. And we kept going forward.  From primitive ideas to civilized ideas. Towards evolution. Towards progress. Fast forward thousands of  years and enter the age of technology, when the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=629&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The power of WOW: How to rock your customers&#8217; worlds</title>
		<link>http://businessgenome.wordpress.com/2009/10/12/the-power-of-wow-how-to-rock-your-customers-worlds/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:25:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In honor of National Customer Service Week, Business Genome offers a lesson on how to tip the scale in favor of customer loyalty using the power of "wow." Empathica's Mike Amos has developed metrics linking the perception of wow with a customer's intent to return to a restaurant. Zappos' founder Tony Hsieh (and featured speaker at the recent Inc 500 conference) exemplified the economic strength of an SMB (small and medium-sized company) that recently sold for $900 million dollars. Zappos' customer service is so over the top that if they don't stock the shoes you want, they'll find you someone else who does.

Wow is an approach that brings the customer from satisfied to loyal. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=497&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Tough love for bad business ideas: How to advance the extinction of innovative, but unevolved, business ideas</title>
		<link>http://businessgenome.wordpress.com/2009/10/05/tough-love-for-bad-business-ideas-how-to-advance-the-extinction-of-innovative-but-unevolved-business-ideas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 05:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>andreakates</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's been a lot of sadness communicated over a list of 25 ideas about to become extinct with examples ranging from the US Post Office to milkmen. Luckily, apple pie missed the list. Commentators on the fates of these dying species mourn the loss and wonder how business leaders could have seen the hand just before the plug got pulled. Business Genome views the extinction differently--as a wake up call for business leaders who are avoiding the sometimes unpleasant task of constructing a gallows for their current corporate initiatives that are leading nowhere.

Business Genome offers a 7-step checklist to guide corporate leaders through the task: How to Pull the Plug on Bad Business Ideas. The key to avoiding extinction is not to mourn when it's too late, but to stick to a discipline of facing facts before the fate is sealed.

Toughen up, stop the bleeding, and move on.

And, do it with a smile. Because after shedding dead ideas, the Phoenix rises, bringing better business ideas.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=462&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Con artists get a bad rap: How to become a master &#8220;corporate pro-artist&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://businessgenome.wordpress.com/2009/08/31/con-artists-get-a-bad-rap-how-to-become-a-master-corporate-pro-artist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 21:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to develop a leadership message that rallies the troops in times of economic crunch? Is it ethical to become a mega-cheerleader when you're in the midst of rough seas? What can business leaders learn from the wink and nod attitudes of con artists that would instill the type of optimism in their employees that would lead toward upticks in business results? What messages work?

The Business Genome's rules for How to Be a Master Corporate Pro-Artist provide the guide on the side advice for leaders trying to climb out of the downward spirals of business performance.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=businessgenome.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5372541&amp;post=450&amp;subd=businessgenome&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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