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	<title>Management Excellence &#187; Leadership Lessons Learned the Hard Way</title>
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	<itunes:summary>Host Art Petty interviews leaders, leadership authors, management thinkers and other professionals about creating high performance teams and organizations and developing effective leaders at all levels, during this weekly program. The goal is to share practical, powerful ideas to help listeners improve their performance and the performance of their teams and organizations.</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Guest Post-More Leadership Lessons Learned the Wrong Way</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2009/10/06/guest-post-more-leadership-lessons-learned-the-wrong-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 13:07:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Note from Art: It's always fun when a post strikes a chord and compels someone to comment or even put hands to keyboard and crank out a guest post.  Last week's "Leadership Lessons Learned In a Crane and Sitting on a 5 Gallon Pail" drew upon some of my own early career memories and the formative lessons learned the hard way and served as inspiration for some interesting comments and today's guest post.

Joe Zurawski is back with us today serving up a nice post on one of the early career experiences that shaped his own leadership development. You may recall that Joe joined us here a few months ago with his take on "Things I Wish I Knew When I Became a Leader." Joe, welcome back and thanks for sharing!
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine-Character Forged in Defeat</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2009/10/04/leadership-caffeine-character-forged-in-defeat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:54:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Winning is great.  It’s often the culmination of years of hard work, a relentless focus on condition and outstanding execution.  What high school or college football coach hasn’t hung a poster in the locker or training room with Vince Lombardi’s inspirational quote: “I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is the moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious”

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		<title>Want a Great Primer in Leadership?  Work for a Bastard and Take Notes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 13:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While I wouldn’t counsel you to seek out and work for a b@st@rd as part of your formal mentoring experience, given the ratio of these characters to good leaders in the workplace, chances are you’ll trip across one or more in your career.  When you do, take in the experience as a powerful education in how not to lead. <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2009/08/18/want-a-great-primer-in-leadership-work-for-a-bastard-and-take-notes/' addthis:title='Want a Great Primer in Leadership?  Work for a Bastard and Take Notes ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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		<title>Leadership Caffeine for the Week: Too Much Time with the Wrong People</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:17:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Petty</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My biggest mistakes as a leader occurred as a result of spending way too much time attempting to change two people.  I was young, new to the formal leadership scene and convinced that with my help and guidance, these two talented individuals would certainly shed their dysfunctional and toxic behaviors. 

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		<title>Management Lessons From the Memphis Belle-Rule #1</title>
		<link>http://artpetty.com/2009/03/26/management-lessons-from-the-memphis-belle-rule-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Eric Lieberman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We were in the early days of our trench warfare trying to save the company, so it was natural that we felt a kinship with the pilot and crew of the Belle. As we drank and watched, we began to discover business rules and management lessons within the war-movie plot. By the time we were done, we had Ten Rules of Management From The Memphis Belle. Then, Paul came up with an 11th. I cussed and said “you can’t just have an odd number like 11” - so we replayed the movie in our heads and thought of 9 more.

And thus we discovered the 20 Lessons From The Memphis Belle. We had them printed up on little cards and handed them out to employees. We gifted them to strategic partners and customers. We printed them on posters and hung them in our offices. When we ran into a hard issue in the business we would refer to the Rules: more often than not there was a rule that was right on point. Each time we’d be amazed, but then we’d say: “Ah! The Rules know all!”<div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style " addthis:url='http://artpetty.com/2009/03/26/management-lessons-from-the-memphis-belle-rule-1/' addthis:title='Management Lessons From the Memphis Belle-Rule #1 ' ><a href="//addthis.com/bookmark.php?v=250&#38;username=xa-4d2b47597ad291fb" class="addthis_button_compact">Share</a><span class="addthis_separator">&#124;</span><a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a><a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a></div>]]></description>
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