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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Sell Everything to Anyone (or, The Car Analogy)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My sales rep: “They just want us to build ten hours of training for $10,000 and they need it in a month.” Me: “That’s ridiculous. Did you tell them we don’t do that? Did you explained why they’ll get better results from our approach and why we charge $500,000 and why that’s actually the best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mindmap: Stay Focused in Age of Distraction</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m not usually a fan of mindmaps, but this one from Australian company, Learning Fundamentals, is a great summary of tricks to stay focused and productive. It was designed with school kids in mind, but applies to adult knowledge workers too. My favorite tips are: work in focused bursts create rituals check email at set [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/mindmap-stay-focused-in-age-of-distraction</link>
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		<title>10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won&#8217;t Tell You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Wall Street Journal offers great advice in the article, &#8220;10 Things Your Commencement Speaker Won&#8217;t Tell You.&#8221; Among my favorites: 3. Don&#8217;t make the world worse. Everyone will tell you that you can change the world. They are right, but remember that &#8220;changing the world&#8221; also can include things like skirting financial regulations and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Power of Gamification</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was honored when my friend and colleague, Karl Kapp, asked me to contribute to his new book, The Gamification of Learning and Instruction, which launched this week. Although the title shows that this book is targeted at learning professionals, it’s a great book for business leaders as well. In the last year I’ve seen [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/gamification-karl-kapp</link>
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		<title>Goodbye 9-to-5. Welcome to the New Normal.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Las Vegas. The Venetian. 5:32am. Did you notice where I’m writing this from, and more importantly, when? Five. Thirty-two. AM.  Lady Gaga’s “Telephone” blares from the speaker overhead. Nope, I haven’t just finished an all-nighter at the tables (although I can hear some hoots and hollers from where I sit). In an hour I’m speaking [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Employee Engagement 2.0 Book</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine if you could: Create massive emotional commitment among all your direct reports Turn your apathetic group into a high performance team exhibiting huge discretionary effort Be a leader who people fight to work with Win a “Best Place to Work” award within 12 months Indeed, you can do all that and more, and it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/employee-engagement-20-book</link>
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		<title>Every Business Needs a Battle Cry</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My recent article on company battle cries appeared on AmEx OpenForum: “Oo-rah!” shouted the Marines in the audience. I was one of the few civilians, among a thousand service men and women, at the recent BEYA Stars and Stripes dinner hosted by the Marine Corps in Philadelphia. The dinner takes place each year in honor [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/every-business-needs-a-battle-cry</link>
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		<title>Business Wisdom from Ramone</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate business fables. You know the ones… the fish mongers slinging salmons back and forth, the rookie executive who gets leadership advice from the janitor, and so on. And yet, it just happened to me. I met an extraordinary individual, in an unlikely place, who had lots of solid advice. I was walking quickly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/business-wisdom-from-ramone</link>
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		<title>Re-engage at Home, on Valentine&#8217;s Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Anybody who follows my work on leadership knows that my “secret ingredients” for generating massive employee engagement are Growth, Recognition and Trust. What you might not realize is that this is really the secret to feeling “engaged” and connected in any relationship. At work, your relationship with your manager is what drives most of your [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://kevinkruse.com/re-engage-at-home-on-valentines-day</link>
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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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