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		<title>Ready or Not &#8212; Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges of Change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:03:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Unless you&#8217;ve had your head in the sand you realize that we are living in a changing world, a changing universe, a changing marketplace. Change is everywhere.
You can&#8217;t avoid change. You can&#8217;t ignore change. You can&#8217;t prevent change. You just have to live with it!
And if you fight change you&#8217;ll ultimately end up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Success: How to build employee morale by rewarding excellence!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2007 19:46:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Organizationâ€™s desiring to improve employee satisfaction need a system in place which consistently rewards employee achievements. Iâ€™m always surprised how few organizations have such a system.
Three key approaches to rewarding excellence and improving employee satisfaction include: appreciation, recognition, and compensation.
APPRECIATION
Many times, positive behaviors and achievements are not acknowledged by leadership, so people donâ€™t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Building a Team of Specialists: How Great Leaders Surround Themselves with People in Order to Build a Strong Organization</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2007 18:49:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Great leaders know their personal strengths, and look for people who will offset their personal weaknesses. They surround themselves with people who are strong in areas where they are weak, knowing that in order to build a strong organization, they must build a team of specialists who can excel in their own unique [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Putting the Power of Your People to Work</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to solicit, analyze and implement employee ideas for organizational improvement.
By JP Maroney
Involving people in the organizationâ€™s improvement process provides one of the most powerful tools for improving employee satisfaction. Most employees, at one time or another, go home and tell their spouse or a friend, â€œIf we would just __________, we could save the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Four Strategies to Improve Team Effectiveness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jul 2007 02:22:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Now, you and your team can immediately improve focus, clarity and results! Here are four tips&#8230;
1) Clarify Your Mission
You might be surprised how many companies, departments, and project teams fail to agree on, and follow a clearly-defined, well-understood mission. Make sure your team doesn&#8217;t fall into this trap.
Simply stated, your mission is the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How To Maximize Your Unique Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest tragedies of life is that so many people underutilize their personal potential. I know people who can sing, I mean really sing, but they donâ€™t do a single thing with it. I know people who could write masterpiece fiction novels, but never produce a single paragraph. I personally know a handful [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TIME THIEVES: How To Identify The Time Wasters That Rob Your Performance And Productivity!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 May 2007 15:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Time is a unique resource many of us squander. It is used up at the consistent rate of 60 seconds per minute, 60 minutes per hour, 24 hours per day, 30 days a month, and 365 days a year.
You cannot stop time. It cannot be replaced, reused or saved. That&#8217;s why time is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Two Things That Determine A Person&#8217;s Success In Life!</title>
		<link>http://www.jpmaroney.net/the-two-things-that-determine-a-persons-success-in-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2007 16:44:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is PART ONE of a series I&#8217;ll be posting.
I would first like your response on the following:
I often say in my live presentations &#8212; and in personal conversations that&#8230;
&#8220;Two things determine a person&#8217;s success in life:
1) The thoughts that occupy your mind, and
2) The people with whom you associate.&#8221;
What do you think?
POST COMMENTS HERE
I&#8217;ll [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEGATIVE PEOPLE SUCK &#8211; the radio interview</title>
		<link>http://www.jpmaroney.net/negative-people-suck-the-radio-interview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:33:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[FACT: Negative People Suck The Energy Out Of Positive People Like YOU and ME!
Check out the 6 minute recording below as Wayne Kelly and Whitney Deane interview me on their Wayne and Jayne radio show in Canada.
LISTEN TO THE RECORDING&#8230;
Turn up your computer speakers.
Click the &#8220;arrow&#8221; below to start the player.
You may have to click [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MR. MONETIZER STRIKES AGAIN!</title>
		<link>http://www.jpmaroney.net/mr-monetizer-strikes-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve uncovered the MOTHER-OF-ALL-BUSINESS-BUILDING-TOOLS!
I&#8217;ll tell you about it in a second &#8212; but first let me tell you WHAT I see.
I clearly see how this will&#8230;

* Generate endless referrals for your business in a way you have NEVER seen before&#8230; on auto-pilot&#8230; inexpensively and almost effortlessly
* Conduct lead-generation campaigns that bring a FRESH flood of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Maximize Your Unique Personal Potential</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Nov 2006 20:03:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Probably one of the greatest tragedies of life is that so many people underutilize their personal potential. I know people who can sing, I mean really sing, but they don&#8217;t do a single thing with it. I know people who could write masterpiece fiction novels, but never produce a single paragraph. I personally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Exceptional People Leverage Their Strengths</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 00:27:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Exceptional people know and leverage their personal strengths. Rather than focus on their weaknesses, and spend all their time trying to improve those areas, they first look for and then concentrate on areas where they are brilliant.
This idea flies in the face of conventional wisdom, which contends that people should learn where they are weak [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Telephone Tips to Improve Customer Service</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Aug 2006 16:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JP MARONEY
Imagine what a day would be like and how few people
you could deal with if there were no phones.
Â Â Â Â  Perhaps you like that idea?
Nevertheless, telephones have made it possible to
stay in one place and do business in different cities,
states, and even countries. They also have made us
more accessible to others.
We are rarely out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop Doubting &amp; Pouting&#8230; Start Believing &amp; Achieving!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Jul 2006 03:49:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JP MARONEY
Two major stumbling blocks keep people from really having what they want in life.
1) Doubting the future
2) Pouting about the past
They doubt the future, always expecting the worst possible outcome. I mean really&#8230;how can they ever expect to get what they want in life if they doubt the possibility that they&#8217;ll ever get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>101 Ways to Retain Customers</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2006 09:47:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[BY JP MARONEY
(101 simple but often overlooked ideas&#8230;)
1.Â Friendly employees
2.Â Employees who are willing to help the customer
3.Â Employees who are knowledgeable about their products and services
4.Â Employees who provide courteous service
5.Â Employees who give personal attention to the customer
6.Â Companies that carry quality products
7.Â Companies that offer good prices
8.Â Stores that have a pleasant atmosphere
9.Â Employees who provide good service
10.Â Employees with a clean [...]]]></description>
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		<title>YOU want me to do WHAT?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 04:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was the &#8220;Perfect Plan.&#8221; We gave them the complete details. And they shoved it back in our face!
Here&#8217;s what happenedâ€¦
I had been consulting with aÂ retail company for some time. We had trained the sales associates, created a growth strategy for the company, and implemented several results-producing, sales-building systems.
This time, we delivered to the sales [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ready or Not &#8212; Strategies for Dealing with the Challenges of Change!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Jul 2006 03:59:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>JP Maroney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[By JP Maroney
Unless you&#8217;ve had your head in the sand you realize that we are living in a changing world, a changing universe, a changing marketplace. Change is everywhere.
You can&#8217;t avoid change. You can&#8217;t ignore change. You can&#8217;t prevent change. You just have to live with it!
And if you fight change you&#8217;ll ultimately end up [...]]]></description>
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