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	<title>Don Smeltzer  Management and Training Consultants</title>
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		<title>Leader or Boss?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:15:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Throughout my professional career  I have held a number of very senior management positions. I have always discouraged employees referring to me as their &#8221;boss&#8221;.   I have preferred use of the term &#8220;colleagues&#8221; 0r &#8220;team members&#8221; regardless of where one is in the hierarchy.<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/439"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Tips For Dealing With Difficult People</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 19:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all have had the experience of being difficult with others and of having to deal with difficult people ourselves.  The following are a few &#8220;tips&#8221; for dealing with difficult people. 1. Diffuse.  Immediately set a positive intention when dealing<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/413"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Canadian Wind Energy Best Practices</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2012 18:21:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Is your municipality considering a &#8220;wind energy&#8221; initiative? Best practice documents and studies from the Canadian Wind Energy Association that can be helpful to municipalities and/or interested general public can be found here:             http://www.canwea.ca/municipalities/municipalities_bestpractices_e.php]]></description>
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		<title>COSEMA &#8211; on Decision Making</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:23:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following outlines a series of six steps for sound municipal decision making. The COSEMA Approach, from which the model draws its life, is generations old. When applied in a municipal government setting, the principles will usually result in the<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/358"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Lanston Hughes &#8211; on Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 14:16:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. -Lanston Hughes]]></description>
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		<title>A thought as 2011 nears its end&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As 2011 draws to a close I am reminded of the life of Mohandas K. Gandhi. His recorded sayings are filled with wisdom. One comes to mind  - “We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.”<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/385"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Pamela Vaull Starr &#8211; on Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 17:04:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reach high, for stars lie hidden in your soul. Dream deep, for every dream precedes the goal. - Pamela Vaull Starr]]></description>
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		<title>Christopher Reeves &#8211; on Dreams</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“So many of our dreams at first seems impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.” - Christopher Reeve]]></description>
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		<title>Ravi M. &#8211; Words of Wisdom</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2011 13:39:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is from a post by Ravi M. on the Recruiters Network which I believe has value being including on the MUNISOURCE Blog. Ravi writes: Everything has a purpose.  In this marvelous creation everything has its purpose. The smallest<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/372"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Petronius Arbiter &#8211; on Reorganization</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:52:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We trained hard, but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams, we would be reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganization; and what<span class="ellipsis">&#8230;</span> <a href="http://www.munisource.org/archives/363"><div class="see-more">See more &#8250;</div><!-- end of .see-more --></a>]]></description>
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