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	<description>Improving Your Bottom Line - Making Life Better</description>
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		<title>Can you motivate an organization?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[EXECUTIVE LEADERSHIP
The top leadership of any organization must find ways to motivate and guide all of the groups and individuals reporting to them.  Creating an effective VISION is essential.  A vision will provide a point of focus by which everyone can align their efforts toward a common purpose.  The organizational culture must also have clearly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/05/can-you-motivate-an-organization/</link>
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		<title>Can you motivate others?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SUPERVISORY LEADERSHIP
Successful individual contributors are often promoted to roles that include responsibility for the performance of others. The ability to set goals for others as well as motivate them is a critical skill that must be mastered. A manager also needs to be able to assist others in improving their personal goal setting skills. Many [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/05/can-you-motivate-others/</link>
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		<title>Can you lead yourself?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PERSONAL LEADERSHIP
The ability to set goals and accomplish them may be the most important shared trait of outstanding leaders.  Initially this ability must be developed internally to the individual. Many students get through their challenges by brute force.  Gallons of coffee and all-nighters become the norm.  Using this approach in the workplace may yield short [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/04/can-you-lead-yourself/</link>
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		<title>Are engineers leaders?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[LEADERSHIP TYPES
Natural leaders exist.  Some of them even graduate from engineering schools.  But just like the rest of us they rarely have the total suite of skills required to be successful when leading within a company.  The Baldrige National Quality Award, the touchstone for this series of articles, weights Leadership second only to Business Results [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/04/are-engineers-leaders/</link>
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		<title>Are your technical professionals competent?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BROAD COMPETENCY IS KEY
While a technical education may touch on aspects of one or two of the Baldrige criteria most are not a part of the curriculum.  Within these areas there are elements that affect the daily life of everyone in the organization.  The individuals and organizations that understand and master the Baldrige criteria are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/04/are-your-technical-professionals-competent/</link>
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		<title>Why is Baldrige Important?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[BALDRIGE QUALITY AWARD

The Baldrige National Quality Award offers a helpful perspective on gaps in the education of new engineers. Research suggests that the Baldrige criteria are among the best predictors of organizational success. (The value of award winners’ stock increased by 512% over a 10 year period vs. 115% for the S &#38; P 500.) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://butlerfitzgerald.com/index.php/2010/04/why-is-baldrige-important/</link>
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		<title>Are New Engineers gods?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[NEW ENGINEERS 
You would think that each year’s crop of newly minted engineering graduates would be ready to be turned loose on the world to solve its technical problems.  Engineering colleges certainly present them as if they are.  Unfortunately, in my experience, despite the brilliance of their professors and the difficulty of the curriculum most [...]]]></description>
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