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		<title>Character Matters, Part II</title>
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Great Lakes Training &#38; Consulting
The Lighthouse - An E-Newsletter
January 2009
In May 2008, I wrote a post to my blog about how character matters in the world of business. I wrote about Tim Solso, Chairman and CEO of Cummins, a global power company.  In an interview in Northwest Airlines World Traveler magazine, Mr. Solso stated that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It IS a Season for Giving!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last Friday, one of our local columnists, John Schneider, had a wonderful story to tell.  A woman, Rebecca, had called a cab to get home from her job, working at a Subway restaurant.  She needed a ride to get to her home, a trailer in a mobile home park six miles from the Subway - [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Face the Brutal Facts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In Jim Collins book, &#8220;Good to Great&#8221; he mentions that one of the things that the &#8220;Good to Great&#8221; companies did was to face the brutal facts and not convince themselves that these facts were not true.  In order to be effective and survive in today&#8217;s economy we cannot afford to view the world through [...]]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s How You Adjust Your Sails</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When Tom Brokaw was interviewing Ted Turner on &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; Turner reflected on how his father wanted him to go to business school and how upset he was that his son was attending Brown University studying Alexander the Great and Aristotle.
As we all know Ted Turner turned out to be quite the businessman, pioneering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Be Prepared to Have a Great Run!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Lakes Training &#38; Consulting, LLC
The Lighthouse - An E-Newsletter
December 2008
Be Prepared to Have a Great Run!

In the September issue of the Greater Lansing Woman Magazine was an article about preparing for the Capital City River Run, a half-marathon in downtown Lansing.  As I read it I couldn&#8217;t help but draw a comparison between preparing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Obama Cabinet</title>
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The news is alive with reports about President-Elect Obama&#8217;s cabinet selections.  Some people are praising him for picking seasoned veterans of Washington politics who can get things done on Capital Hill.  Some are criticizing him for the same reason, that he ran on a platform of change, but has selected the &#8220;old guard&#8221; as his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Do You Make Your Case?</title>
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How do you make your case to your boss, to your customers, to your co-workers?  Imagine you are a CEO for one of the &#8220;Big Three&#8221; auto companies.  You are in desperate need of a loan and you travel to Washington, DC to testify before Congress to request a loan from the U.S. Treasury, how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Charismatic or Level-5 Leader?  What Kind are YOU?</title>
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In their November 2008 issue, Talent Management Magazine reported that professional services firm, Epoch, had produced a study that revealed that strong leaders continue to score high in their results-driven orientation.  They also continue to need to advance and gain power by leading others.  Author Eduard Spranger in his book, &#8220;Types of Man,&#8221; says these [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Are Your Business Metrics a Rearview Mirror?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Great Lakes Training &#38; Consulting, LLC
The Lighthouse - An E-Newsletter
November 2008
Are Your Business Metrics a Rearview Mirror?
Probably one of the most overused buzzwords in business today is the word, metrics.  When someone first asked me about metrics, I thought they were trying to discuss the difference of meters versus yards!  Metrics has become [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.grtlaketng.com/383/are-your-business-metrics-a-rearview-mirror/</link>
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		<title>Dads Juggle Working and Coaching</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Dirk Stealy is a remodeling contractor.  He just landed a great contract, remodeling Bob Evans stores in Central Florida, but he was determined not to let this contract interfere with his role as his son&#8217;s football coach.  After his son&#8217;s football practice each night Dirk would drive three hours to spend the night supervising his [...]]]></description>
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