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	<title>Playing Well at Work and Beyond &#187; cross cultural strategies</title>
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		<title>TedxBozeman Video is Available</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2012/04/24/tedxbozeman-video-is-available-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Apr 2012 22:36:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Per your many requests, please find my March 23rd Tedx Talk below! It is also available on YouTube under the Tedx Channel at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEAzWD3038Y . Thank you for your kind and enduring support, Deidre]]></description>
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		<title>Do or D.I.E.</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2011/02/26/do-or-d-i-e/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:33:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to share leadership skills with nineteen international English teachers who are visiting on a State Department fellowship. Part of the program includes internships in our area schools. In my workshop we &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2011/02/26/do-or-d-i-e/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Devil trees and leadership</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2011/01/18/devil-trees-and-leadership/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 16:02:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the holiday break, a contingent of our family stood on a hill overlooking Panama City. As we took in the view, our son Cameron remarked, &#8220;It&#8217;s all about perspective, isn&#8217;t it? I might suffer a terrible death. From a &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2011/01/18/devil-trees-and-leadership/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Thanksgiving as a Global Holiday</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2010/11/28/thanksgiving-as-a-global-holiday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Nov 2010 21:50:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=1188</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Community cannot for long feed on itself; it can only flourish with the coming of others from beyond, their unknown and undiscovered brothers. ~ Howard Thurman I love the irony; what is considered a uniquely American holiday seems to bring &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2010/11/28/thanksgiving-as-a-global-holiday/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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 &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2010/08/04/the-global-techno-beat/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Stories</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/22/the-power-of-stories/</link>
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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/12/22/the-power-of-stories/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></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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		<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 &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/12/12/what-a-bit-of-encouragement-can-yield/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Selfish Selflessness</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/12/02/selfish-selflessness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:03:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=900</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Note To Self – Always remember how you can still recall your parents’ off handed comments from childhood… As an example, my father, an outplacement counselor,  lodged this memory in a still accessible mental file cabinet. Recounting the highlights of &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/12/02/selfish-selflessness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Say Yes</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 03:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Life is movement. The more life there is, the more flexibility there is. The more fluid you are, the more you are alive. – Arnaud Desjardins Ask a Buddhist what we can count on and he will probably explain that nothing is &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/10/12/say-yes/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Keeping it Real</title>
		<link>http://playingwell.org/2009/09/22/keeping-it-real/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Deidre Combs</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://playingwell.org/?p=781</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I smiled listening to Michael Jordan honor his beloved sister and brothers as some of his valuable opponents when composing last week’s post. I get it; when I wrote The Way of Conflict, I began the introduction by telling the &#8230; <a href="http://playingwell.org/2009/09/22/keeping-it-real/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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