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		<title>Is Your Expert Status Preventing You From Moving Forward?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2010 19:05:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the challenges some leaders face during career and entrepreneurial transitions, is the fact that they will have to start all over again and lose their expert status. The fallacy of expert status goes hand in hand with a limited view of the possibilities in front of you as well avoiding action completely. Adopting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Take the sting out of the painful process of reinvention: 5 ways to take 1 step towards change</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Feb 2010 22:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Opening quote from Grey’s Anatomy: “The surgical scalpel is made of steel, sterilized, carbonized stainless steel. This is a vast improvement over the first scalpel, which was pretty much a sharp stick. Medicine is constantly reinventing itself. That means surgeons have to keep reinventing themselves, too. There is constant pressure to adapt to changes. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: Ursula Burns&#8217; Path to CEO</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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At the Most Powerful Women Summit,  when asked how she would tag herself, Ursula Burns, CEO of Xerox, responded the “Groomed CEO”. With roughly 28 years of experience there is no doubt that Ursula Burns not only loves Xerox but created her own path to prepare for this seat. Burns led Xerox through many stages of transition, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned from Anne Mulcahy: Managing a Seamless Transition</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/21/managing-a-seamless-transition/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 18:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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One of the dilemmas some of my clients and readers face is letting go and moving forward. Whether it is a project that went awry, a negative performance review, the experience of working with a mismatched manager, a lay-off or your teams&#8217; lack of confidence in your ability to deliver, letting go of these career [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carla A. Harris: Hard Earned and Hard Learned Lessons</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, I attended Brokering Change: A Wall Street Multicultural Women’s Exchange a great quarterly series hosted by Goldman Sachs.
Carla A. Harris was one of the keynote speakers. Harris is a Managing Director in the Strategic Client Group at Morgan Stanley Investment  Management. She is also the recipient of many accolades such as Fortune&#8217;s &#8220;50 Most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the best advice you have received? (Part Two)</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/26/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-received-part-two/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Here is the second installment of influential leaders sharing wise words that changed their lives forever in the “Best advice I ever got” at Fortune Magazine. Their practical advice can be applied to advancing your careers and transitions, as well as many other areas of your life:
12. Take advice from smart people - share your ideas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the best advice you have ever received?</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/06/23/whats-the-best-advice-you-have-ever-received/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:52:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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Fortune magazine asked a host of influential leaders to share wise words that changed their lives forever in the “Best advice I ever got”. Their practical advice can be applied to advancing your careers and transitions, as well as many other areas of your life:

Keep it simple - set a goal, share it with someone, [...]]]></description>
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