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		<title>Accountability: Building Engaged and Informed Teams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Jan 2011 17:38:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Organizations struggling with major initiatives seek better means to manage performance. This article speaks to the importance of accountability in building engaged and informed teams within a culture of execution. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1588&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>From the Boardroom to the Battlefield &#8212; Only the Paranoid Survive</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 00:48:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Andy Grove of Intel fame provides a fascinating read on the effects and potential advantages of technological disruption. Following is the preface to Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points that Challenge Every Company. Grove speaks to the importance of understanding inflection points and how great organizations exploit crises to advance their [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1559&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Innovation Drives Superior Profitability</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2010 17:55:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Best Performers in Innovation consistently realize superior performance in growth and profitability. Typically, these results are neither achieved nor sustained without some aspect of Business Transformation.Consequences exist as much for inaction as for continued adherence to behaviors that do not drive growth. This blog challenges the reader to consider his/her own organization - whether success defined as the continued pursuit of modest growth figures supports long-term prosperity. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1398&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Creating Value: Economic Progress through Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:11:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The essential question for consumers is what they want today, and what they're going to want in the future. Innovation in creating greater value for consumers must include process as well as product in a maturing global environment. This post treats the Disney model in light of comments from Warren Buffett and Neville Isdell in understanding how value is derived. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1386&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics in Leadership: Virtue as a Competitive Advantage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Aug 2009 22:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Within Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle reasons that virtue exists between the extremes of excess and deficiency. It is the exemplification of temperance between these two extremes that determines our success as individuals, leaders and organizations. The pursuit of goodness, not necessarily its attainment, is what matters most as virtue is the constant striving toward excellence; a continuous journey without end.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1332&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Crossing the Rubicon: Building High-Performance Teams</title>
		<link>http://blackdiamondtransformation.com/2009/08/02/crossing-the-rubicon-building-high-performance-teams/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Aug 2009 20:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[High-performance requires tying both organization and individual motivations to a core competency or belief system. Yet this persists as a formidable obstacle for many individuals, let alone organizations, to overcome. Discipline and intense resolve to a change mandate necessitates articulating clear constraints within a consistent system promoting excellence. Self-disciplined organizations manage systems, not people.

This post involves the concepts of passion and discipline in development of high-performance teams and operations excellence. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1293&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Attitude</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:07:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elbert Hubbard wrote extensively on issues of self-determination and pursuit of excellence. He believed that fear was eradicated by the employing one's intelligence in the pursuit of truth. By doing this, he reasoned one would ultimately find stronger health and personal satisfaction which yields true wealth through service to others. "Mental Attitude" treats the importance of personal leadership and determination in the process of self-actualization.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1276&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good Design: The Role of Emotion in Innovation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2009 12:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Good design may compensate for marginal product performance. Don Norman proposes that design encompasses three levels of emotion that ameliorate the effects of product flaws engendering inspiration and product loyalty in spite of it - primarily through good design. Organizations seeking to gain competitive advantage through introduction of new products and services, improve chances of both penetration and retention through better management of consumer perception in innovation.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1205&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>1899: A Message to Garcia</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 22:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elbert Hubbard penned "A Message to Garcia" in 1899 in one hour following supper after a long day of dealings with unmotivated people. It has sold over one million copies since and has become a core component of basic leadership lessons instilled to recruits of the United States Marine Corps. 

The basic tenet of this piece is that self-motivation and dedication to excellence drives enduring transformation - for individuals as well as organizations. This lesson from the 19th century is no less true in the 21st. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=1210&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Resilient Organizations: The Irony of Individualism</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 20:16:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Black Diamond Transformation</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Christmas Eve, 1914, on the fields of Ypres, Belgium, found British, French and German forces at war with one another. An unusual event occurred in which German forces called out to opposing lines to mutually negotiate a truce - by the men fighting in that terrible place, not the politicians distant from the action. This post discusses this unusual event, the importance of individualism to resiliency, and how organizations build toward it for competitive advantage. <img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=blackdiamondtransformation.com&amp;blog=7256438&amp;post=843&amp;subd=blackdiamondtransformation&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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			<media:title type="html">Add to Blinklist</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs2073.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Twitter</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs2083.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Technorati</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs2093.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Furl</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs2103.png" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Add to Newsvine</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://getsocialserver.files.wordpress.com/2009/02/gs2113.png" medium="image" />

		<media:content url="http://blackdiamondtransformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/individualism.jpg?w=300" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">Individualism</media:title>
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		<media:content url="http://blackdiamondtransformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/picture2.png?w=150" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">picture2</media:title>
		</media:content>

		<media:content url="http://blackdiamondtransformation.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/by-nc-nd.png?w=150" medium="image">
			<media:title type="html">by-nc-nd</media:title>
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