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	<title>Leading from the Future</title>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Science fiction becomes reality</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2008 21:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Check it out&#8230;.
Gene Dolgoff, CEO of 3D Source, talks about 3D licenses, postcards, television, video, and more! According to Mr. Dolgoff, &#8220;The environment shapes the way we evolve.&#8221; I couldn&#8217;t agree more, and you will get a kick out of seeing and hearing about what he and his company are making possible for your everyday [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new earth?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:57:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Before you elevate Eckhart Tolle&#8217;s latest book, A New Earth, to the level of the prophecy of a seer or the depths of the ravings of an over-zealous philosopher, I&#8217;d like to offer some perspective. I picked up the book recently for an airport read on the way across the country. An Oprah&#8217;s Book Club [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inspire Me Today</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2008 14:05:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I was invited to be an &#8220;Inspirational Luminary&#8221; at a wonderful website: Inspire Me Today!
As part of the process, I was interviewed by Gail Lynne Goodwin, who started the website. Gail is very inspiring without needing any help from others! She told me her own inspirational story about about visiting the troops in Iraq [...]]]></description>
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		<title>“How did you do it?”</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/%e2%80%9chow-did-you-do-it%e2%80%9d/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 13:56:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me, “How did you do it?” when they find out I took seven trips to India between 1985 and 1997 to study meditation with the meditation masters of the Himalayas. In the same sense, the question “How did you do it?” comes up about my writing and self-publishing a book that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thriving in change seminar</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/thriving-in-change-seminar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 12:17:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[   Now that you&#8217;re getting comfortable coping with change, get ready to thrive in change. Lea recently spoke to  coaches at the second annual New England Regional International Coach Federation conference, getting audiences to their feet  - making experiments in thriving with change. To learn how to do it check out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Make Change Easier in Organizations</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/how-to-make-change-easier-in-organizations/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/how-to-make-change-easier-in-organizations/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Apr 2008 14:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The challenge
Whenever an organization embarks upon a change it is because they feel the pain or sense the gain. Therefore there can be great enthusiasm to begin the change process. Many changes are begun, flounder, and become a sad and bad history. Since the organization exists to perpetuate itself, the change can be seen as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Burton Snowboards Coaching Culture Interview</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/burton-snowboards-coaching-culture-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Listen to Dave Buck, CEO of Coachville, interview Liz Dallas and Lea Belair on the coaching culture program at Burton Snowboards. Courtesty CVCaffeine daily radio.
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		<title>CoachVille Caffeine</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/coachville-caffeine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the opportunity recently to be interviewed by Dave  Buck, CEO of CoachVille, on my book Walk on Water: How to Make Change Easier
Here is what one listener had to say:
&#8220;I&#8217;ve just been listening to your CoachVille Caffeine interview - what   a pleasure.  Listening to what you were saying about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Most searched for words on the Internet</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/most-searched-for-words-on-the-internet/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/most-searched-for-words-on-the-internet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2007 15:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[On a whimsical note..
This month the most searched for key words in the NY Times were: bush, george bush, president bush, bush veto, bush iraq, bush administration, bush iran, laura bush, bush immigration, gore bush.
Makes one wonder if there isn&#8217;t a secret room in the White House filled with interns checking up on us all.
On [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The best from the ICF 2007 conference</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/the-best-from-the-icf-2007-conference/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2007 21:40:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from a two day whirlwind at the International Coach Federation Annual Conference held in Long Beach, CA. It&#8217;s the industry&#8217;s largest conference with thousands of coaches and speakers from all over the world. This year&#8217;s opening keynote speaker was Julio Olalla. He&#8217;s one of my favorite speakers and a pioneer in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creative Destruction</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/creative-destruction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2007 16:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this term recently in the Wired Geekipedia. I remember first hearing about creative destruction from Thomas Leonard, the founder of the modern coaching profession. It&#8217;s credited to Joseph Schumpeter, an economist, in 1942 and applies to radical innovation.
Here&#8217;s the big idea as Thomas described it:
You create a product or service that is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is it necessary to get buy-in from the top?</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/is-it-necessary-to-get-buy-in-from-the-top/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2007 14:43:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Author and scientist Stephen Wolfram writes in his 2002 book A New Kind of Science, that simple rules can lead to complex behavior. Emergence chaos theory talks about how change begins with the simple and progresses to the complex. 60 Minutes just did a segment on how we love to make lists because lists make [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Efficiency vs. Effectiveness</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/efficiency-vs-effectiveness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m reading The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss.  Ferriss is unscrupulous and hard to love but he does have a couple of very good points. Maybe that&#8217;s why his book is a best-seller.  Anyway, I am a big fan of distinctions, as you know (or not) from reading my book Walk on Water: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Wired for the Future</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/wired-for-the-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2007 11:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in an interview with a prospective client last week when the topic came up: How to make the most of the present? My prospect held that it was best to &#8216;be in the present&#8217;. I couldn&#8217;t agree with him more AND, &#8220;You&#8217;ll get an edge.&#8221; I told him, &#8220;by seeing your present from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Coaching Culture evolution</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Jun 2007 18:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
What goes around comes around, eh?
It was my privilege to return to WREN - Women&#8217;s Rural Entrepreneurial Network, in Bethlehem, NH this past week to give a training in coaching skills to the Staff and Board. The three day workshop was paid for by grant funding for rural economic development.
WREN was the organization that supported [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The new Wild West of Digital Content</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/the-new-wild-west-of-digital-content/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2007 12:47:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently returned from a coaching conference called A Conversation Among Masters held in Monterey, California. One of the highlights that especially pertains to Leading from the future was input about the growing shift from traditional media to digital content.
It was interesting to note that a presentation by David Bernstein, former editor at John Wiley [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MySpace for evolutionaries</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/my-space-for-evolutionaries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently I&#8217;ve been signing up to have conversations and &#8216;friends&#8217; online - something I never thought I would do, since I don&#8217;t see myself as a My Space kind of girl. My change of heart happened when word of mouth sent me to investigate sites like zaadz.com and global-mindshift.org. These sites exist to foster community [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Entrepreneurial Marketing Seizure</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/the-entrepreneurial-seizure/</link>
		<comments>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/the-entrepreneurial-seizure/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:52:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was asked if I would like to be a panelist on marketing at an international conference for coaches. My first reaction was, &#8220;Me?&#8221; After all, there are lots of experts on marketing in the coaching world and, although I often help my clients with marketing, I&#8217;m not one of the in crowd. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The power of focus</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/the-power-of-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 24 Mar 2007 14:49:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the current issues of 7 Days, a weekly Vermont newspaper:
&#8220;After campaigning for three years to have authorities remove a massive tree stump from Ontario&#8217;s Lake St. Clair, insisting that it posed a hazard to snowmobilers, Robert Case, 47, died when his snowmobile struck the stump.&#8221;
Many people would say that Robert Case should have known [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Something Worthy</title>
		<link>http://www.leadingfromthefuture.com/do-something-worthy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:56:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lea</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some colleagues of mine have just started a new venture called Do Something Worthy. It&#8217;s an exciting idea that embodies Leading From the Future so I promised to post some info from their latest email flyer here. Check it out:
Job a bore &#8212; push &#8220;make-better&#8221; and it&#8217;s exciting!  Kids screaming &#8212; hit &#8220;make-better&#8221; and [...]]]></description>
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