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         <title>FRUMI&apos;S BOOK REVIEW: Are You Ready to Succeed?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Through anecdotes, exercises, observations, and an extensive list of readings, Dr. Rao offers lessons drawn from both spiritual traditions and business situations that enable you to reconstruct and improve your professional and personal worlds. These unconventional strategies will turn your life around and help you become exponentially more effective in your career and flourish in every aspect of your life. This book is a powerful tool that will help you discover the purpose that can suffuse your life and bring stars to your eyes. The crucial question is Are YOU ready?...

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By: Frumi Rachel Barr, MBA, Ph.D.]]></description>
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         <title>Business Stress Test</title>
         <description><![CDATA[If you're tempted to throw in the towel, you're not alone. But drastic measures may not be necessary.

(Fortune Small Business) -- Debbie Dusenberry is the founder of Curious Sofa, a home-furnishings business in Kansas City, Kans. I had heard that she had an interesting take on business and the economy, so one day I checked out her Web site...

<a href="http://www.clientadvocatenetwork.com/articles/knowledge_2009-04_1.html" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>

By: Jay Goltz]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:57 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>The Ethical Edge: Integrity&apos;s Competitive Asset #1</title>
         <description><![CDATA[ETHICAL TREACHERY: COLLAPSED CORPORATE CULTURE
Most of us endured a Junior or Senior High athletic coach who never should have been coaching kids. Coach Bob, my high school track and field coach, was such a coach. He was a great athlete, one of the world's best. He proved that in the 1960 Summer Olympics when he won a medal...

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By: Russell T. Williams, PASSKEYS – inspiring ethical excellence ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:33:07 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Talent Management In An Economic Downturn</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The FINANCIAL -- As the economic downturn continues, CEOs are playing a greater role in talent management, job restructuring, and work practices, according to two global business reports from Deloitte U.S.

The reports outline key findings from extensive one-on-one interviews and polling of top business leaders from around the world, revealing their strategies for managing today's most pressing talent issues...

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By: FinChannel.com ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:32:05 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>A Guide to What to do When You’ve Been Stiffed</title>
         <description><![CDATA[With the economy in the tank, it's no surprise that the number of bankruptcies—both personal and business—is soaring. As a small-business owner, even assuming you're not in danger of going bankrupt yourself, you can end up with some tricky decisions to make if your customers, suppliers, or other business counterparts go under.

The first thing to keep in mind if a business relation goes out of business is that there are a lot of different ways it can happen...

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By: Jonathan Weber, Founder, publisher, and CEO of New West]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:31:13 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Looking For Credit? Tap An SBA Loan.</title>
         <description><![CDATA[(March 19, 2009) Did you know you can get a Small Business Administration loan for up to $4 million with a payback period of 5 to 25 years? Additionally, the recently passed stimulus bill makes it easier for companies to get loans and refinance debt.

SBA lending, including 504 financing, will be a significant and integral part of the American small business recovery effort...

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By: Paul Diamond, Vistage Web Editor]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 23:29:34 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Goals &amp; Goal Setting: Do You Know Where You&apos;re Going?</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Your Life's journey is the most important journey you will ever take, and you only make it once! But ironically, most people spend more time planning their two-week vacation than to planning the other fifty weeks of the year. They have little or no idea where they are going with their lives...

<a href="http://www.clientadvocatenetwork.com/articles/knowledge_2009-03_3.html" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>

By: Rita Monte, Executive Coach & CEO Forum Chair, CLIENT ADVOCATE NETWORK ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:18:50 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>I&apos;m Not Sure Where We&apos;re Going - But We&apos;re Making Good Time</title>
         <description><![CDATA[At some point in our career, all of us have had that feeling. Waking up at 3 am in a cold sweat, wondering what to do, or what our next step should be.

Whether your business is large or small, several key elements should be in place to reach your goal(s). These are: a written Business Plan, an Organization and Processes to execute the plan, identified Key Measurements for periodic feedback of variance to plan, and proper allocation of Capital, People, and Knowledge...

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By: Gary Drake, Associate Director, Operational Efficiencies and Organizational Effectiveness, Client Advocate Network]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:18:05 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Frumi&apos;s Book Review - Success Principles (Part II)</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The Success Principles will teach you to increase your confidence, tackle daily challenges, live with passion and purpose and realize all your ambitions. The book spells out the 64 timeless principles use by successful men and women throughout history...

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By: Frumi Rachel Barr, Ph.D.]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:17:21 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>The Ethical Edge: Integrity&apos;s Competitive Asset #1</title>
         <description><![CDATA[WHO'S RESPONSIBILITY IS IT FOR ACTING ETHICALLY?
I was a fourteen-year-old high school Freshman when I learned that I was no one's Howdy Doody doll. You remember Buffalo Bob and Howdy Doody don't you? If I have dated myself, The Howdy Doody Show was America's original kid show in TV's 1950's childhood. Buffalo Bob was the ventriloquist. Howdy Doody was his dummy. Howdy Doody did not think or act. Buffalo Bob pulled all the strings!..

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By: Russell T. Williams, PASSKEYS – inspiring ethical excellence]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:16:20 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Four Ways to Keep Morale &amp; Production Up</title>
         <description><![CDATA[When morale suffers, so does productivity. And when productivity suffers, well, it's all to heck in a hand basket, isn't it?

OnPoint Consulting recently asked HR professionals about what steps are being employed to keep workers happy and morale on the up and up...

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By: Posted by S. Caron]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:15:34 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>COBRA Continuation Coverage Assistance Under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009</title>
         <description><![CDATA[The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, provides for a provisional nine month subsidy of COBRA premiums for employees and their dependents who were involuntarily terminated between September 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009. This law subjects employers to new administrative and notice requirements...

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By: Dan Exceen & Patti Kunnel, Burnham Benefits]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:13:18 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Top 9 Lies Venture Capitalists Tell</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Venture capitalists are simple people. But we're not necessarily forthcoming, so if you think it's hard to get a "yes" out of a venture capitalist, try getting a conclusive "no." The game is to string along entrepreneurs in case something miraculous happens to make them look better...

<a href="http://www.clientadvocatenetwork.com/articles/capital_2009-03_3.html" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>

By: Guy Kawasaki, Entrepreneur Magazine ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:11:30 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>The Art of Alliances</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Whenever I consider new strategic alliances or expansion opportunities, I look for three things: good partners, good financing and good management. Whether we're looking for investors, partners or vendors, we weigh their experience, expertise, track record and character. The quality of the businesses or individuals we align with directly affects our future...

<a href="http://www.clientadvocatenetwork.com/articles/capital_2009-03_2.html" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>

By: Robert Kiyosaki, Author of "Rich Dad" ]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:10:39 -0800</pubDate>
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         <title>Economist Alan Beaulieu Projects 2010 Recovery</title>
         <description><![CDATA[Here's the tough news: the next six months (March-August) will be worse than the previous six months. And the good news, we should see the economic recovery begin around March 2010 based on the monthly trend in the U.S. Industrial Production Index...

<a href="http://www.clientadvocatenetwork.com/articles/capital_2009-3_1.html" target="_blank">Read Full Article</a>

By: Paul Diamond, Web Editor, Vistage International]]></description>
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         <pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:08:12 -0800</pubDate>
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