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	<title>The Baby Gorillas: A Business Blog</title>
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		<title>Stop Reinforcing the Status Quo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every day, people do the same thing over and over without questioning the policy or the system. Which is why new ideas are usually met with resistance.
“That will never work.”
“It’s never been done before.”
“Don&#8217;t bother &#8211; we already tried that once.”
“Nice idea, but can you prove that it will work?”
“We can’t sell that to senior [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Present Like Steve Jobs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The purpose of a presentation is to change minds. Yet this won’t happen if the presenter uses PowerPoint or Keynote to hide behind a wall of bullets and graphs. Of course, that doesn’t mean people still won’t try.
If you want to improve your presentation skills, there is no one better to study than Apple CEO [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/present-like-steve-jobs</link>
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		<title>Less is More</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to the Internet, the world has gotten smaller. It’s now possible to connect with people all over the world in a meaningful way.
While I agree that it matters who you know, that doesn’t mean the goal should be to have thousands of online friends. Quantity alone doesn’t mean that you’re truly connected.
Here’s a thought: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/less-is-more</link>
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		<title>When To Make A Decision</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine regularly talks to me about his job. A couple of years ago, his company&#8217;s managers were slow to make decisions. While other firms in his industry changed how they worked, his business sat still. “They didn’t have enough information to support doing things differently,” he told me. Eventually, some of their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/when-to-decide</link>
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		<title>Improve Your Follow-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most businesses look at follow-up as something that&#8217;s easy. Wait until someone shows interest in your product, then call or email in an effort to push the sales cycle along. But that&#8217;s a call about you, not them.
There is another kind of follow-up that seems hard, but really isn&#8217;t. And since it takes place in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/improve-your-follow-up</link>
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		<title>Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seth Godin is widely viewed as one of the sharpest marketing minds of our time. In my opinion, he&#8217;s more than that &#8211; he is a true change agent. His latest book, Linchpin, could not have come along at a better time.
We&#8217;re in the midst of the 22nd recession since 1900, and so far it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/linchpin-are-you-indispensable</link>
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		<title>Pace Yourself</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In 2003, the Women&#8217;s United Soccer Association (WUSA) folded after three years in operation. The cumulative losses amounted to approximately $100 million.
At first, it is difficult to wrap your arms around the magnitude of that loss. But what bothers me most is how quickly they folded. After all, this was the first women&#8217;s professional soccer [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/pace-yourself</link>
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		<title>Urgency</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  I&#8217;m in the process of launching a new business. And since I&#8217;m booked during the day working on other projects, a lot of the pre-launch work takes place late at night. This actually helped create a bond between me and my business partner &#8211; we were pleasantly surprised to discover that one could [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/urgency</link>
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		<title>Leaders Don&#039;t Cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When a kitten is confused or in danger, it will do nothing but cry for help. Sooner or later, it&#8217;s mother or owner will carry it to safety.
Too many in business have the same attitude.
That&#8217;s a problem. It&#8217;s a problem because although it looks like we&#8217;re starting to emerge from the recession, we&#8217;re not out [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/leaders-dont-cry</link>
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		<title>What Matters Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2009 was a year that many would like to forget. Sales, profits, and corporate morale declined, and in some cases evaporated altogether. &#8220;The Great Recession&#8221; did a number on us. Does this mean we&#8217;ll have to limp through 2010 as well?
Of course not. But we will need to make changes if we expect this year [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://babygorillas.com/what-matters-now</link>
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