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		<title>Full Engagement Leadership</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/08/25/full-engagement-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:21:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.~Thomas Jefferson
Leadership can feel like a juggling act. Competing priorities, competing team members, and competing needs call for our attention. Also, there is opposition between what our heartstrings sing out with what our head advises when we weigh what would [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Global Techno Beat</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/08/04/the-global-techno-beat/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Aug 2010 02:43:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[During July,  I happily worked with Mongolian and Bhutanese monks, Middle Eastern business leaders, North African and Middle Eastern university student leaders and last but absolutely not least, 5 Iraqi high school students along with American peers. It was an incredible treat as I could soak up one of Montana’s best months while continually enriched by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Night Trekking in Dayton</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/07/11/night-trekking-in-dayton/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 15:59:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I experienced an urban “food desert” first hand last week.  As I wrote in my earlier post, this term describes locations where it is difficult to find healthy sustenance. In rural America, “food deserts” arise where it is not financially viable to have a grocery store. In inner cities, these locations appear where it doesn’t [...]]]></description>
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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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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1087</guid>
		<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>Sell local, buy local</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/06/12/sell-local-buy-local/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/06/12/sell-local-buy-local/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:47:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1075</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Before I became a Combs twenty-five years ago, my mother-in-law was my boss. She hired me to cook at the family guest ranch in Ennis, Montana during two college summers. &#8220;Jinny&#8221; was first &#8220;Mrs. Combs&#8221; to me.
Six days a week, the kitchen staff would be up at 6 am frying bacon so we would be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Intuitive Leadership</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/05/28/intuitive-leadership/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/05/28/intuitive-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<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>Allow</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/04/20/allow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Apr 2010 02:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1056</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The fool who thinks he is a fool is for that very reason a wise man; But the fool who thinks he is a wise man is rightly called a fool. - Dhammapada 63
Last week a friend suddenly disappeared. Like magic, one minute she was engaged and providing her perspective in a meeting we were attending [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weeding One&#8217;s Garden</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/03/28/weeding-ones-garden/</link>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/03/28/weeding-ones-garden/#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://playingwell.org/2010/03/03/defining-leadership/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 21:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1033</guid>
		<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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