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		<title>High-Performance Teams, Clear Expectations and Courage</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 14:54:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a short montage from a recent seminar I taught in Auckland, NZ with a wonderful company called RESULTS.com (you ought to check out their website &#8211; they do cool stuff!). I hope you enjoy this clip and share it with anyone you feel would find value in the ideas I share&#8230; . John Spence [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Art of Achievement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 May 2012 20:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A key idea about leadership and a truly fantastic book&#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>What Do You Expect?</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2012/02/expect/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:51:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the past several months I have delivered numerous workshops and speeches for clients who were all struggling with the same basic issue: Lack of Clear Expectations. Regardless of the size of the company or the industry in which they competed, I’ve noticed a pattern of three critical areas where failure to set clear expectations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Amazing Resources</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160;     &#160; &#160;   &#160; &#160; &#160;]]></description>
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		<title>I am VERY thankful for&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/11/thankful-for/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 16:06:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am extremely thankful this week because a group of college students have restored my faith in the leadership potential of the next generation. This semester, in partnership with a great company in my hometown called TutoringZone, we offered a special leadership training program called &#8220;Let The GATOR Lead” in conjunction with the Warrington College of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The NEW Normal</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/10/normal/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:40:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Just a few weeks ago I had the great honor of presenting a program at the Apple Specialist Marketing Conference. My talk was entitled &#8220;The New Normal&#8221; and focused on how these folks, who sold such incredible Apple products, could continue to be successful as the realities of business and economics remained in constant fluctuation. The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Guest Post on Building a Great Culture</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/10/guest-post-culture/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Oct 2011 20:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I saw this post and liked the ideas so much that I asked to run it here as a guest post. Kyle Lagunas makes some excellent points&#8230; In recent years, the most successful companies have focused less on perks and more on offering their employees something better: a connection to the company. Three prominent start-ups &#8211; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Four Pieces of Paper</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/09/pieces-paper/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:09:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<title>Two Ideas About Employee Engagement</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/09/ideas-employee-engagement-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2011 18:34:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<title>The Summer of LOVE</title>
		<link>http://blog.johnspence.com/2011/09/summer-love/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 20:24:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>John Spence</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A wonderful guest post by Tom Asacker on why we need more LOVE in business with several extra ideas and suggestions from John Spence.]]></description>
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