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		<title>Lessons Learned: Tom Ford&#8217;s Parallel Career as Designer &#038; Director</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2010/03/03/lessons-learned-tom-fords-parallel-career-as-designer-director/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:02:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Stories about people doing things they have never done before, always inspire me. Yesterday on Oprah, Tom Ford talked about his directorial debut, A Single Man. When Ford left Gucci, he realized the material side of the world had pulled him away from his spiritual side. Reading A Single Man for a second time, Ford [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned: Ursula Burns&#8217; Path to CEO</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/09/23/lessons-learned-ursula-burns-path-to-ceo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:18:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Advancement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career advice]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[Succession Planning]]></category>

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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>Career Transitions: From Sales to Sauce</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/08/05/career-transitions-from-sales-to-sauce/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 01:41:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Transition]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Lessons Learned]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Passion]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Persistence]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In Second Acts, Dawn Fallik over at WSJ.com profiles Jim Barbour in    “A Former Sales Rep Concocts Fresh Start With Barbecue Sauce.” A quick look at Barbour’s career history and you will see that he had a short stint in stockbroking, then spent several years in sales with great companies such as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stop wasting time and just ask for help</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/07/10/stop-wasting-time-and-just-ask-for-help/</link>
		<comments>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/07/10/stop-wasting-time-and-just-ask-for-help/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:17:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career advice]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[General]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Leadership Effectiveness]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday, work took me from New York to Philly for the day. Armed with a map, detailed instructions I was confident that I would not get lost. Now as much as I hate to admit it, I have no sense of direction, overlay that with Americans’ predilection for directions, that involve head north, then go [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Carla A. Harris: Hard Earned and Hard Learned Lessons</title>
		<link>http://www.myfactorcoach.com/2009/07/01/carla-a-harris-hard-earned-and-hard-learned-lessons/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michelle Awuku-Tatum</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Career Advancement]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career Management]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career advice]]></category>

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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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		<category><![CDATA[Career Transition]]></category>

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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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		<category><![CDATA[Career Advice &amp; Management]]></category>

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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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