Sat.Sep 10, 2011 - Fri.Sep 16, 2011

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What is EntreLeadership

Coaching Tip

EntreLeaders understand that ultimately the only power they can use to grow a quality team is the power of persuasion. Persuasion is pulling the rope and positional leadership is pushing the rope. And we all know you can't push a rope. You cannot lead without passion. Passion causes things to move, and passion creates a force multiplier. Passion actually covers a multitude of sins.

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Poorer Middle-Class Americans

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The squeeze on middle America will be long lasting. . There's little doubt that the American middle class—the 40% of households with annual incomes between $50,000 and $140,000 a year—is in distress. Even before the recession, incomes of American middle-class families weren't keeping up with inflation, especially with the rising costs of what are considered the essential ingredients of middle-class life—college education , health care and housing.

Class 102
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How Do People Perceive You?

Coaching Tip

Because all of the decisions we make are emotional (while we rationalize and justify those decisions analytically), our perceptions of others are based on intangibles that we use to make meaning in our world. These intangibles include our assumptions and beliefs, values, vision of the future and guiding principles. When we say someone is "awesome" or "authentic" or "real" or a "straight talker, or "straight shooter" or "fair" or "honest" - Are we saying that he or she appears that way when we in

Audience 133