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	<description>Randy Sabourin Anderson Sabourin Consulting Inc.</description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:44:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This blog has now been moved and amalgamated to the Leadership Chronicles. There will be an ongoing commitment to Business Improvisation.
Thanx for reading,
Randy
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		<title>2009 NeuroLeadership Summit October 27 to 29 in LA</title>
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ASCI is a proud member of the NeuroLeadership Institute.  We have found the research and content very valuable to our practice and ultimately our clients.  The 2009 NeuroLeadership Summit will take place in Los Angeles at the UCLA campus in Westwood October 27th through October 29th.  It should be another outstanding summit.
Areas of focus will [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales &amp; Status &#8211; Business Improvisation at its Most Valuable</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are several critical sales skills that that can increase your success with your clients that go beyond the traditional mass produced ‘one size fits all’ sales training. Skills associated with account strategy, competitive counter tactics, advanced questioning models to reveal value, the neuroscience of change and my personal favorite; status.]]></description>
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		<title>Rinse and Repeat</title>
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In the past year I’ve been doing a lot of reading about NeuroLeadership. It’s a very interesting field of management study that combines how the brain works or neuroscience with the practices of leading change in people or organizations. The material is fascinating and I find that it supports, through research [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Situational Leadership and Execution Style</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business has been cooking at ASCI over the last 6 months or so: our Situational Leadership Workshop is becoming more and more popular. I think corporations are beginning to see that best answer to any business problem or dilemma is &#8220;it depends&#8221;. It depends on the situation, on who you are, on who you&#8217;re dealing [...]]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[ChangeThis was built in the summer of 2004 by Amit Gupta, Catherine Hickey, Noah Weiss, Phoebe Espiritu and Michelle Sriwongtong. You can read their bios in this blog entry. The original idea behind ChangeThis came from Seth Godin. You can read about him on his website.
In the summer of 2005, ChangeThis was turned over to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nice to see your stuff published&#8230;</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[AD Cult Magazine Trend Spotters
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is from a white paper on how ASCI uses The GO Game to reinforce and test content delivered in its PVC Sales Training Program. The sales training itself is good stuff but when combined with the GO Game its a blast.
Pervasive Gaming and Experiential Learning
Overview:
The client, a major Canadian financial institution, engaged Anderson [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate Culture Out of Control</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across this article from The Salt Lake Tribune that is so bizarre that I had to share it with you. 
“In a lawsuit filed last month, former Prosper, Inc. salesman Chad Hudgens alleges his managers also allowed the supervisor to draw mustaches on employees&#8217; faces, take away their chairs and beat on their [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Creativity and Improvisation in Sales</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 00:06:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“It depends” is a very common and often correct answer to most business questions. The outcome of a complex situation really does “depend” on a large number of uncontrollable and unknown variables. Sales professionals try to reduce these unknowns as best they can by doing research and asking questions. They strive to understand the competitive [...]]]></description>
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