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		<title>Employee Engagement at Campbell&#8217;s Soup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The year 2000 was a very bad year for Campbell’s Soup. The company that began in 1869 and sold soup in 120 different countries hit upon bad times. Sales weren’t just slowing, they were declining. They lost 54% of their market value in just one year. Campbell’s executives were told that their employee engagement levels [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Touch it Once: The Cadence Call for Productivity and Time Management</title>
		<description><![CDATA[10:00am. My hour of power for health is complete, and I’ve finished an hour of focused writing time. Time to open my email accounts…deep breath. The Google alert on my own name shows that my previously scheduled blog post went live this morning. I hop over to kevinkruse.com to make sure it’s all good and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/touch-it-once-the-cadence-call-for-productivity-and-time-management</link>
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		<title>The Golden Age of Startups is Now</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;I have a great idea for a business, but the economy sucks.&#8221; Last week someone told me that they have a great idea for a new business, but they are going to wait until the economy turns around. I told them that every one of my businesses I’ve launched in a recession, and that while [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/the-golden-age-of-startups-is-now</link>
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		<title>It Takes 8 Interviews to Get Hired at an Apple Store</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I say it over and over again: It’s all about the talent. And when it comes to hiring, the secret formula is: Great Hire = A lot of candidates + A rigorous interview process Once again I see evidence of that, this time from Ron Johnson, who oversaw the creation of the Apple [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/it-takes-8-interviews-to-get-hired-at-an-apple-store</link>
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		<title>5 Leadership Lessons From Tim Tebow&#8217;s Game-Time Audio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Denver Broncos rookie quarterback Tim Tebow has been everywhere lately. Tebow has crossed into American pop-culture this year because of his improbable win streak and public displays of his Christian faith. He wore a microphone during last Sunday’s game vs. Chicago; you can find excerpts from his game-time audio feed here. I’m not a Bronco’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/tim-tebow-on-leadership</link>
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		<title>Trust Cannot Be Surged (or 5 Ways to Earn Trust)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A close friend of mine recently participated in a war game that was run by the US Naval War College. It brought together multiple military and civilian organizations as well as international partners, with the goal to help participants learn and better prepare for a crisis in coastal waterways. But the goal within the goal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/5-ways-to-earn-trust</link>
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		<title>10 Things We&#8217;ve Learned About Tackling Global Poverty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Earlier this year I was turned on to the great work of the Acumen Fund by Seth Godin. In short, the Acumen Fund is fighting global poverty by investing &#8220;patient capital&#8221; in for-profit companies that deliver goods and services to the poor. At their recent annual investor gathering, the Acumen Fund shared some truths they&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/10-things-weve-learned-about-tackling-global-poverty</link>
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		<title>The 5 Customers for Authors (and others, too)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Are you thinking deeply enough about all the &#8220;buyers&#8221; of your products and services? The Legendary Ray Bard, Bard Press Earlier this week I attended a conference for authors organized by 800-CEO-Read. I had the pleasure of meeting the legendary publisher, Ray Bard. If you aren&#8217;t familiar with Ray, he&#8217;s the founder and CEO of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/5-customers-for-authors</link>
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		<title>Driving Change: A 3-Step, Real World Model</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Managing Change: A Real-World, 3-Step Process In a recent board meeting someone brought up John Kotter&#8217;s 8-Step Process for Leading Change. Kotter is a well-respected Harvard Professor, author, and of course consultant on &#8220;change management&#8221;&#8211;which happens to be one of the hottest business topics in the last decade. Change management guru&#8217;s explain that we live [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/driving-change</link>
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		<title>Infographic: The Story of Employee Engagement at Work</title>
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