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		<title><![CDATA[How to Get Ahead: Act with Urgency]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What makes a great leader? A Sense of Urgency, says Harvard?s  John P. Kotter.     	    How do you distinguish between a real and a false sense of urgency?        Behavior. With a false sense of urgency...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[George at Asda: From Rags To Riches]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Asda's clothing brand, George, is now the UK's leading fashion retailer . This may not sound so momentous today but, back at the brand's launch in 1990, the idea that a supermarket chain, and particularly Asda, could beat M&S at its own game would have seemed incredible.   ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:00:42 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Not the Time to Bring in a Change Specialist]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=1851]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[A common theme in recession management advice is that companies should use the upheaval to their advantage by investing in areas such as R&D where competitors are not, hiring talent now available at less expensive terms, and recrafting marketing messages to emphasize value over sizzle.    Sounds like...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 08:12:52 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Rita McGrath: Use Growth Business to Promote Employees]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/mba/?p=514]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[In the newly released bookÂ Discovery-Driven Growth: A Breakthrough Process to Reduce Risk and Seize Opportunity, Columbia's Rita Gunther McGrath and Wharton's Ian MacMillan reveal some dangerous traps that companies pursuing new growth platforms must avoid.Â Â Over the last two weeks, we've heard McGrath's views on theÂ best ways to define growth goals...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:00:39 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Columbia's McGrath Reveals Top Mistakes of Firms Establishing New Growth Businesses]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[    Rita Gunther McGrath of Columbia Business School helps companies venture out to the frontier of new business creation. Â Last week, she shared her ideas about how companies should define their growth goals, structure plans, and judge the potential of new businesses. Â Â She also knows the kinds...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:49:18 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Xerox's Mulcahy Named CEO of the Year: You're Kidding, Right?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1734]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Xerox by Chief Executive magazine. I somehow found this to be amusing, disturbing, and nauseating, all at the same time. CEO Anne Mulcahy was named 2008 CEO of the year    My first question was what's Chief Executive magazine? Well, CE bills itself as "The magazine for the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:45:02 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Upgrading Talent]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A downturn can give smart companies a chance to upgrade their talent.      Downturns place companies' talent strategies at risk. As deteriorating performance forces increasingly aggressive head count reductions, it's easy to lose valuable contributors inadvertently, damage morale or the company's external reputation among potential employees,...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How Long Should it Take to Turn Around a Company?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1487]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[I received an email from a reader in response to How Do These CEOs Keep Their Jobs? that brought up a thought provoking question: "How long should it take to turn around a company and how do you know if it's working?"    Here's an excerpt from the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Nov 2008 14:16:39 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Seven Lessons From Yahoo's Year of Blunders]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/ceo/?p=1476]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Time is running out for Jerry Yang. With Google pulling out of the search ad deal, Yahoo is essentially out of options, except for one. Its embattled CEO is now trying to lure Microsoft â€" the suitor he went to great lengths to jilt â€" back to the negotiating table....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 06:15:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[CEO Succession: Does Your Company Have a Clue?]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/harvard/?p=317]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[The single most valuable player in almost any company is its chief executive officer. Given that, most firms surely have succession plans ready to go when Mrs. CEO steps off to another opportunity or the Board decides to go in another leadership direction. Right?    Um, not so...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 08:22:41 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Gary Hamel: Don't Be a Dinosaur]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://blogs.bnet.com/business-books/?p=110]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Gary Hamel ends his â€˜Future of Managementâ€™ with a two-chapter â€˜how-toâ€™ section, aptly titled â€˜Building the Future of Management.â€™    The first looks closely at two real-world attempts to create more innovative companies. Hamel starts with IBMâ€™s efforts to take its world-beating research and turn it into new...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2007 12:11:01 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[How to Beat a Lower-Priced Competitor]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's every company's nightmare: a competitor enters your market with a similar product priced at a fraction of what you currently charge. You need a strategy for beating the low-ballers. So what's the best way to proceed?    On the one hand, all you need to do is...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Linkage Satellite Broadcasts Bring Renowned Business Leaders to Bentley College Students and Faculty.]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5583/is_200310/ai_n23547226]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[Byline: Bentley College    WALTHAM, Mass., Oct. 17 AScribe Newswire -- Former IBM CEO Lou  Gerstner will be seen in Wilder Pavilion addressing Bentley College  faculty and students in December. Midday yesterday, in a special  two-hour program on Strategic Leadership, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2003 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[New York Times review of Lou Gerstner memoir.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[M2 PRESSWIRE-14 November 2002-IBM: New York Times review of Lou   Gerstner memoir C1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD    RDATE:11132002    By Dirk Olin -- American commerce has taken so many turns in the  past  decade that recent business history can be disorienting. ...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Consultant watch]]></title>
		<link><![CDATA[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5944/is_200203/ai_n24020183]]></link>
		<description><![CDATA[SO MUCH FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF CONSULTING. On March 1, Lou Gerstner stepped aside as IBM's CEO. Gerstner, who was once a management consultant, rebuilt IBM by focusing on consulting and trumpeting the shocking for IBM approach of using whichever productsSO MUCH FOR THE GOLDEN AGE OF CONSULTING. On...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Feb. 8--LOU GERSTNER, get an agent or call your lawyer.    The IBM chairman, who recently announced plans to step down at the  end of the year, has since received glowing...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2002 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Follow that; Face value.(Face value: Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss)(Brief Article)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Will Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss, be a worthy successor to  Lou Gerstner?    Will Sam Palmisano, IBM's new boss, be a worthy successor to  Lou Gerstner?  ]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2002 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADVISORY/Photo Regarding The National Future Cities Competition is Available in a Smart News Release on www.businesswire.com]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Photo/ Business & Technology Editors  SMART NEWS ADVISORY...  --BUSINESS WIRE  A photo that goes with Business Wire Story 975, that ran earlier today, is available at URL:  http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.022101/bb7  Photo caption reads:  IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner Meets Finalists of the National Future Cities Competition in...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2001 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[FrontLine Capital Group Appoints World-Class Chief Technology Officer; Former IBM Internet Executive to Provide Technology Guidance for FrontLine Partner Companies]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business Editors  NEW YORK--BUSINESS WIRE--Feb. 4, 2000  FrontLine Capital Group (&uot;FrontLine&uot;), formerly known as Reckson Service Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ:RSII), a leading developer of B2B Internet companies, today announced the appointment of Dr. J. Scott Penberthy as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer. Dr. Penberthy was formerly Director...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2000 23:59:59 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[ADVISORY/Photo of IBM Chairman Lou Gerstner monitoring Y2K transition is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site]]></title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 31 Dec 1999 00:00:00 -0800</pubDate>
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