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	<title>Recession-Proof Thinking:  Your Guide to Thriving When the Economy Is Not</title>
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	<description>Welcome to a community devoted to growing in the face of difficult times.</description>
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		<title>Business is Changing &#8212; for Good</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=201</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:08:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business is changing before our eyes.   We are in a rare confluence of these major trends:

The financial rewards that drove business behavior have eroded (e.g., stock market returns, higher salaries and bonuses, real estate price growth).  Cost-consciousness is the order of the day.
The business environment is increasingly transparent and open, thanks to social media. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Joys of Telemarketing</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=197</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Aug 2009 01:04:07 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneuial Thinking]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In order to raise capital to start my new business, I am working part time making cold calls for a financial firm.  It is 100% commission.
Why?
Because it is teaching me something I need:  the mindset it takes to sell.   I could have spent thousands of dollars on sales training.   Instead, I took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Associations:  Between a Rock and a Hard Place, Only Water Will Flow</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=191</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Jul 2009 17:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[The Emerging Economy]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is social media a threat or an opportunity for associations?
It&#8217;s both.
Social media as disruptive technology is rewriting the association business environment.  It puts associations between a rock and a hard place.
Do we defend the rock? Associations have value.  In person meetings have value.  We have to charge for virtual attendance because it costs us.
Or do [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fear and Fakery v. Trust</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=187</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=187#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Increasing Personal Resilience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin today writes about trust: how individuals and companies get their customers to trust them &#8212; and do business with them.  It&#8217;s not braggadocio, its not flash, it&#8217;s the old-fashioned say-what-you-do-then-do-it-well. 
If everyone seeking a job or selling their services did this &#8211; we&#8217;d have a very different business world.  But we don&#8217;t. 
It&#8217;s not just the outright [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Valuing The Growth of Empathy</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=179</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=179#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 12:46:54 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Dealing with A Personal Recession]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Increasing Personal Resilience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Social Entrepreneurs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The True Self]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is the dollar value of empathy?
What a ridiculous question!  But I ask it because heightened empathy may be one of your most important acquisitions during this recession.
Many of us who are middle class are used to being able to control our destinies.  But now job loss, loss of savings, and foreclosures becoming middle class [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to be Productive When You&#8217;re Scared and Confused</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=173</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:35:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[Keep on Truckin']]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the keys to making it through unemployment or business difficulties is to stay productive.  Not &#8220;busy&#8221;, but productive.  Being productive means taking action that produces results.  Being busy has a lesser goal:  to keep our minds off unpleasant emotion, such as fear.  (Being numb accomplishes the same thing.)
To paraphrase FDR &#8211; we should [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What is Recession Proof Thinking?</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=156</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=156#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Bailout]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneuial Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Increasing Personal Resilience]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA["That aggressive courage sounds brave at first, but it doesn't prepare you to adjust and adapt to the reality in front of you.  You can end up burned out from bravado and positive thinking, and disappointed at your results."]]></description>
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		<title>Get in On 2009 Social and Sustainable Business Plan Competitions</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=147</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=147#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 17:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneuial Thinking]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Global Economy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pay it Forward]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you run a social entreprise or a sustainable/green business, check out this great list.  Business plan competitions are a tried-and-true way for a start-up to get visibility, invaluable advice, and that all important seed funding.
Ian Fisk runs The William James Foundation competitions in Washington DC.  He recently shared this list with this year&#8217;s judges [...]]]></description>
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		<title>There Aren&#8217;t &#8220;Two Kinds of People&#8221;: Why It Matters To You and Your Money</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=138</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=138#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2009 17:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Entrepreneuial Thinking]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=138</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Reading a marketing e-mail from Loral Langemeier, a &#8220;wealth coach,&#8221; she makes a distinction between two kinds of people:

If you&#8217;ve been following my strategies, you already know that I believe there are two kinds of people:
(1) The Creators &#8211; Generators &#8211; Expanders
(2) The Restricters &#8211; The Dieters
Which kind of person are you?

I cringed &#8212; yikes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed is Good?</title>
		<link>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=22</link>
		<comments>http://siteground220.com/~recessi2/?p=22#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Mar 2009 15:35:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My stepson and I had an interesting conversation about &#8220;selling out.&#8221;   We were talking about musicians.  With the clear sight of a 22-year-old, he defined selling out as:
YOUR IN IT TO MAKE MONEY, NOT DEVELOP YOUR ART.
That set off bells in my head&#8230;the combination of idealism and cynisicm.  The clear understanding that creating based on [...]]]></description>
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