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	<description>David Poole</description>
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		<title>Dr Dave for Sale as Corporate Speaker!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To celebrate the completion of the manuscript for his forthcoming book, Phoenix Rising, Dr Dave Poole has listed himself on eBay to give leadership seminars in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane in 2010!]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2010/01/dr-dave-for-sale-as-corporate-speaker/</link>
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		<title>The Change Management Gap</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I served as a CEO, I learnt that it was possible to move too far, too fast.  I had mistakenly thought until now that my Board were with me every step of the way.  They had bought my ideas for reform of our structures, the new strategies I had suggested, and the new staff [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/02/the-change-management-gap/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise – Lesson 6:  Marketing Follies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Without sufficient energy given to marketing your new franchise, your financial returns will be no better than your fellow franchisees.  If your rewards are less than the average, it is unlikely you will be able to get ahead.
 
One of the few levers you may be able to pull is marketing, usually represented by the four [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/02/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-%e2%80%93-lesson-6-marketing-follies/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise – Lesson 5: Your Accountant is God</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yes, I mean it.  It is not rhetoric or hyperbole but is truly grounded in reality.  Your accountant or financial adviser is God (or very close to it!).
 
I began with the best of intentions.  My former accountant was a well-meaning guy with a number of small businesses in his portfolio.  His specialization, however, was the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-%e2%80%93-lesson-5-your-accountant-is-god/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise – Lesson 4: Are You an Entrepreneur or a Frentrepreneur?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many people buy a franchise because they want to work for themselves.  The phrase, “I want to be my own boss” is often the first on the lips of budding franchisees.  However, buying a franchise is arguably a step back from pure entrepreneurship.
 
For the pure entrepreneur, consider someone such as Richard Branson, now CEO and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-%e2%80%93-lesson-4-are-you-an-entrepreneur-or-a-frentrepreneur/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise &#8211; Lesson 3 &#8211; Do Your Homework Better Than I Did Mine!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
The dog may as well have eaten it, for it wasn&#8217;t worth much. My preparation for buying a franchise wasn&#8217;t even close the quality of what yours must be if you are going to make a sound buying decisions.
Let&#8217;s consider some of my mistakes.
Most significantly, I was far too driven by emotion, passion and impatience. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-lesson-3-do-your-homework-better-than-i-did-mine/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise – Lesson 2: Will You Make Money?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In late 2007, I purchased an existing franchise bookstore whose revenues had dropped by about 30 percent during the previous four years.  The owner and his wife were genuine sellers, having already relocated to another part of the state where they were to care for a seriously-ill relative.
 
I was confident that I could restore its [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-%e2%80%93-lesson-2-will-you-make-money/</link>
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		<title>The Right Stuff About Buying a Franchise – Lesson 1: The L Word</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Location.  Location.  Location.  It’s true.  Location is the most critical factor in the success or failure of any new franchise business, and most other businesses, for that matter.
 
Some franchisors have locations already available for the consideration of potential franchisees.   Some facilitate the purchase of existing outlets in established locations from franchisees looking to sell.  Others [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/the-right-stuff-about-buying-a-franchise-%e2%80%93-lesson-1-the-l-word/</link>
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		<title>Can Good Leaders Be Good Everywhere?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Richard Branson&#8217;s latest book, Business Stripped Bare (Random, 2008) is, like Losing My Virginity, an absolute cracker.  For business leaders and entrepreneurs, it provides some marvellous examples of entrepreneurial success and failure as well as a great deal of food for thought.
It is thanks to global business leaders like Richard Branson that we can drill down [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2009/01/can-good-leaders-be-good-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>The Relevance of Our Management Theories for China</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week I had the privilege of giving two and a half days of management education to HRM managers from China&#8217;s Customs Department.  What an amazingly part of the Chinese Government that must be, especially given the phenomenal growth of China&#8217;s trade during the last two decades.
My teaching philosophy has changed in recent years as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.stratleadership.com/2008/12/the-relevance-of-western-management-theory-for-china/</link>
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