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	<title>Playing Well at Work and Beyond &#187; creativity</title>
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		<title>As in soccer, as in life</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/06/27/as-in-soccer-as-in-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 03:34:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I was tracking the World Cup statistics from FIFA.com, I found myself recalling a local soccer match I had watched with my mother a few weeks ago. Based in California, my OD consultant mum was in town for the weekend and accompanied our family to Billings for a state tournament.
We both shook our heads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intuitive Leadership</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/05/28/intuitive-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 May 2010 23:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Much has been written of late about how intuition plays into strong leadership. For example, Malcolm Gladwell, in Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, describes how our initial split second assessment of a situation often yields better results than months of belabored &#8220;rational&#8221; research.
Gladwell cites three art historians examining a supposedly authentic 6th century [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeding One&#8217;s Garden</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/03/28/weeding-ones-garden/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 21:10:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1048</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste.  ~William Shakespeare
The calendar tells me it is spring, but at our home in the foothills of Bozeman, Montana that still equals snow drifts. I shouldn’t complain since my “in town” friends are spending this weekend weeding their gardens to make room for early tulips and crocuses.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Defining Leadership</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/03/03/defining-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. &#8211; John Quincy Adams
I have been spending four days a week talking about leadership with university students since January. This converts to much considering what it means to lead and how to do it well. Over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Should I Do? A Multicultural Answer</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/02/10/what-should-i-do-a-multicultural-answer/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/02/10/what-should-i-do-a-multicultural-answer/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Feb 2010 22:00:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently teaching a new course at Montana State University called Leadership Foundations. Thirty students ranging from 18 to over 40 are exploring together what it means to be a leader while learning some core skills.  As part of the course, each student must devote 10 non-class hours to some type of volunteer activity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Kevin Connolly &#8212; Playing Well at the X Games</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/02/01/kevin-connolly-playing-well-at-the-x-games/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 02:14:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have to let you all know that our friend Kevin Connolly just took 3rd place in mono ski at the X Games! To get a sense of what that means, click here for a short ESPN clip of the final run&#8230;This is not skiing for the faint of heart.
I have to sing Kevin&#8217;s praises since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Steve Jobs &#8212; Three Tenets of Playing Well</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/01/17/steve-jobs-three-tenets-of-playing-well/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/01/17/steve-jobs-three-tenets-of-playing-well/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:07:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=987</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The good life is inspired by love and guided by knowledge. &#8212; Bertrand Russell
When I recently found a YouTube version of Steve Jobs&#8217; 2005 Stanford commencement speech, I was not surprised to see the 1.5 million &#8220;hits&#8221; to date. This became one of my personal favorites when its transcript appeared in my inbox soon after [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Different &#8220;Windows&#8221; or Why I Walked Out</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/01/04/different-windows-or-why-i-walked-out/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/01/04/different-windows-or-why-i-walked-out/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:18:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=942</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Where you see flowers, a rabbit sees lunch. Where most of us would have noticed pesky burrs stuck to our clothing, in 1948 George de Mestral on a walk with his dog visualized Velcro.
Our perspective shapes our experience. Brazilian Jarbas Agnelli reading the newspaper one day, regarded a color photograph of black birds sitting on electric [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Stories</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/22/the-power-of-stories/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/22/the-power-of-stories/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 19:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My friend Sunny calls it, &#8220;the Friday morning weep-fest.&#8221; After last week I&#8217;d have to agree. Driving downtown, I too had tears rolling down my cheeks listening to National Public Radio&#8217;s latest selection from the Storycorps Project.
Storycorps is an oral history project begun in 2003 where tens of thousands of everyday people have interviewed family [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What a Bit of Encouragement Can Yield</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/12/what-a-bit-of-encouragement-can-yield/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/12/what-a-bit-of-encouragement-can-yield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 23:44:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=910</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week I passed a coffee shop table where a friend sat with a pretty red-haired woman. Being introduced for the first time, I blurted out how beautiful she looked in an emerald green sweater set. I think I caught my new acquaintance a bit off guard and upon heading out again I thought, &#8220;There [...]]]></description>
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